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MELISSA LABIAT ZA 551 
POGOGYNE 
7 MELISSA TL. Sp. 592. 
Herbs with leafy stems broad dentate leaves and small white or 
yellowish flowers in small axillary clusters. Calyx bilabiate, ob- 
long-campanulate, 13-nerved, nearly naked in the throat: upper 
lip flat, 3-toothed ; the lower 2-parted. Corolla exserted, its tube 
curved, enlarged above, naked within, the limb bilabiate; upper 
lip erect, emarginate; lower lip spreading, 3-cleft. Stamens 4, 
connivent and ascending under the upper lip of the corolla: an- 
thers 2-celled, the cells divaricate. : 
M. orricinauis L, Sp. 592. Pubescent perennial: stems rather stout, 
erect or ascending, 12-30 inches high: leaves ovate, petioled, pinnately 
_ veined, coarsely dentate or crenate-dentate, 1-214 inches long:. flowers 
several in the axillary clusters, short-pedicelled: calyx about 3 lines long, 
the teeth of its lower lip slightly exceeding those of the upper: corolla 
white, 5-7 lines long. In waste places: naturalized from Europe. 
8 POGOGYNE Benth. Lab. 441. 
Low annuals with mostly entire leaves and numerous small 
flowers in dense or interrupted terminal bracted spikes: the bracts 
usually hirsutely ciliate. Calyx deeply and unequally 5-cleft, 
the. teeth hirsutely ciliate, the two lower longest: the tube cam- 
panulate or turbinate, mostly 15-nerved: the throat naked within. 
Corolla straight, tubular-funnelform, with short lips: upper lip 
erect, entire, lower lip 3-lobed, spreading. Stamens 4, the upper 
pair shortest, all with anthers, or the upper pair sterile, ascend- 
ing and above more or less approximate in pairs: anthers 2-celled, 
the'cells parallel and pointless. Style somewhat exserted, beard- 
ed above. E adbt 
_P. Douglasii Benth. 1. c. Stem commonly 2-6 inches high, simple, 
or branched from the base: leaves oblanceolate to obovate, 9-15 lines long, 
narrowed below toa petiole: flowers in approximate whorls, forming a 
dense, terminal spike, often with a single accessory whorl below, or 
sometimes several of the lower ax:ls with flowers: bracts linear, cuspidate, 
their margins ciliate with bristly white hairs: calyx about 4 lines lony, 
the lower teeth about twice as long as the tube, much longer and narrower. 
than the others, all bristly-ciliate: corolla 7-9 lines long, blue, the palate 
white dotted with purple, bristly: nutlets smooth, often mottled, minutely 
hispid at the apex. In low places that are covered with water in winter, 
Jackson Co. Oregon to Oalifornia. 
Tribe 8 Monardex Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii, 888. Antherifer- 
ous stamens only 2, straight or commonly parallel-ascending. An- 
thers with narrow usually oblong-linear cells , which are either wide- 
ly separated on the upper and lower ends of a linear or filiform 
connective which is usually longer than the filament and articulated 
with it, or the lower cell wanting or deformed, or the two cells confluent 
into one linear cell. 
9 AUDIBERTIA Benth. Bot. Reg. t. 1469. 
Shrubs or herbs with mostly crenulate leaves and numerous 
flowers in capitate-glomerate or verticilastrate terminal heads or 
