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or the lower obovate, 3-12 lines long, all abruptly contracted at base to 
short or maderately, long petioles, obtuse to acute at the apex, entire: 
flowers solitary, in the axils of the upper leaves: peduncles 1-3 lines long. 
calyx hardly 2 lines long in flower, becoming moderately enlarged in fruit, 
minutely puberulent: corolla blue, 10-12 lines long, puberulent, with short 
tube and broad throat, the broad lower lip pba fe within. In moist 
soil along streams, Washington to California and Nevada. 
S. galericulata L. Sp. 599. Puberulent or pubescent: stems solitary 
at the ends of underground perennial shoots, erect, usually branched, 1-3 
feet high: leaves thin, ohlong-lanceolate to ovate-oblong, acute at the apex, 
dentate with low teeth, or the upper entire, 1-14¢ inches long, rounded or 
subcordate at base, the uppermost much smaller and sessile or nearly so, 
the lower ones petioled: flowers solitary in the axils of the upper leaves, 
short-peduncled: calyx ibang a line long, split to the base, enlarged 
in fruit: corolla blue, puberulent, 8-12 lines long, with a slender tube and 
slightly enlarged throat: nutlets densely muriculate-scabrous. In low wet 
places, Brit. Columbia to Oregon, Arizona and the Atlantic States. 
Tribe 6 Stachydex Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii, 407. Herbage 
bitter-aromatic or scarcely aromatic. Calyx 5-l0-nerved or veiny. 
Stamens 4, all with anthers, parallel and mostly ascending wnder 
the concave and commonly galeate upper lip of the bilabiate corolla, 
the lower or outer pair longest, except in Phlomis. Anthers 2-celled 
or confluently somewhat 1-celled. 
16 BRUNELLA L. Sp. 600. 
Perennial herbs with petioled leavegyvand purple or white flow- 
ers in dense bracted terminal and axillary spikes or heads. Calyx 
oblong, reticulate-veined, about 10-nerved, deeply bilabiate, closed 
in fruit: upper lip nearly truncate, or with 3 short teeth: lower 
lip 2-cleft, its teeth lanceolate. Corolla-tube inflated, slightly nar- 
rowed at the mouth, its limb strongly bilabiate: upper lip entire, 
arched: lower lip spreading, 5-lobed. Stamens 4, all fertile, the 
lower pair longest: filaments of the longer stamens 2-toothed at 
the summit, one of the teeth bearing the anther, the other sterile. 
Anthers 2-celled, the cells divergent or divaricate. Nutlets ovoid, 
smooth. . 
B. vulgaris L. Sp. 600. Pubescent to nearly glabrous: stems numer- 
ous, slender, erec rocumbent, 2-24 inches long, usually simple: leaves 
thin, ovate or oblong to oblong-lanceolate, usually narrowed at base, entire 
or crenate, 2-4 inches long, the lowest commonly shorter, and sometimes 
subcordate, all petioled : spikes usually sessile, 1-2 inches long dense, ter- 
minal: bracts broadly ovate-orbicular, strongly nerved, more or less hirsute 
and ciliate: calyx cylindraceous, about 4 lines long, more or less hirsute, 
the teeth all cuspidate and ciliate: corolla blue or violet to nearly white, 
1-8 lines long. Common in open places, Alaska to California and across 
the Continent: also in Asia. 
17 PHYSOSTEGIA Benth. Lab. 504 (1834) 
Erect perennial herbs with serrate, dentate or entire leaves and 
middle-sized bilabiate flowers in terminal bracted spikes or ra- 
cemes. Calyx campanulate or oblong, membranaceous, enlarged 
and remaining open in fruit, 10-nerved, equally 5-toothed. Co- 
rolla much longer than the calyx, its tube gradually much en- 
