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STACHYS LABIAT Ae 559 
wet places, southwertern Oregon. 
S. Palustris L. Sp. 580. Hirsute or pubescent: rootstock slender, 
perennial: stems erect, strict, simple or somewhat branched, commonly 
slender and retrorse-hispid on the angles, 1-4 feet high: leaves lanceolate, 
oblong or oblong-lanceolate, sessile or very short petioled, acuminate or 
acute at the apex, truncate to cordate at base, 1-5 inches long, crenate or 
dentate: flower-clusters 6-10-flowered, approximate or interrupted: calyx 
pubescent, its subulate teeth more than half as long as the tube: corolla 
purplish to pale red, purple-spotted, 6-8 lines long, its upper lip pubescent. 
In moist meadows, northern Oregon to New York and Newfoundland. 
S. bullata Benth. Lab. 547. Hirsute’pubescent or somewhat hispid 
to villoas, or sometimes nearly glabrous above: stems usually slender, 1-3 
feet high, from a slender perennial rootstock: leaves ovate to oblong, 
obtuse or the upper ones acutish at the apex, rather coarsely crenafe, 1-2 
inches long, rounded or subcordate at base mostly petioled: spikes 2-6 
inches long, interrupted: calyx campanulate, about 4 lines long, its deltoid- 
subulate and aristulate-acuminate teeth fully half as long as the tube: 
corolla 6-7 lines long, its tube about equalling the calyx. and but little 
longer than the lower lip. In rather dry soil, Oregon to California. 
mostly obtuse at the apex, 2-6 inches long, crenate serrate, sericeous- 
hirsute above, softly villous-canescent beneath, rugose-veiny, cordate at 
base, all petioled: spikes mostly naked, at length elongated and interrupt- 
ed; the floral leaves reduced to bracts and shorter than the flowers: calyx 
cylindraceous, densely hirsute, about 5 lines long, its cuspidate deltoid 
teeth about one-third as long as the tube: corolla rose-red or darker, about 
10 lines long, the tube fully twice as long as the calyx, the upper lip hirsute. 
In swamps, western Oregon to California. 
- Chamisso nth. Linn. vi, 80. Stems stout, 2-6 feet high, sim-O spol 
ple, or branched near the top, retrorsely hispid: leaves oblong-ovate, : 
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S. ciliata Dougl. Benth. Lab. 539. Green and glabrate or sparingly 
pubescent: stems stout, 2-6 feet high, siniple, or branched above, sparingly 
retrorsely-hispid on the acute angles: leaves thin, ovate to oblong, 2-6 
inches long, crenate-toothed, subcordate, all petioled. dark green above, 
paler beneath; petioles retrorsely hispid-ciliate: spikes 2-8 inches long, 
the whorls approximate or interrupted calyx sparsely hirsute, campanu- 
late, about 4 lines long, its cuspidate deltoid teeth about a line long: corolla 
rose red, about 10 lines long, the narrow tube twice as long as the calyx; 
jo pbper lip minutely pubescent. In moist alluvial soil, Oregon to Brit. 
olumbia. 
Var. pubens Gray Syn. FI. ii, 388. Soft pilose-pubescent or villous- 
hirsute, especially the calyx and lower face of the leaves: flowers commonly 
rather smaller or shorter. Washington to Brit. Columbia. 
S. Emersoni Piper Eryth. vi, 31. Stems about 8 feet high, glabrous 
or sparsely hispid on the faces, scabrous on the angles with retrorse rather 
long and weak papillose-based hairs: rootstock perennial: leaves about six 
pairs, ovate, cordate or subcordate at base, obtuse, coarsely crenate, sparse- 
ly pilose-pubescent on both faces, 3-4 inches long by 2 inches broad, peti- 
oled: flowers solitary or in twos, the lowest in the axils of the upper leaves, 
the upper contracted into a leafy-bracted spike: bracts lanceolate, nearly 
sessile, exceeding the flowers: calyx campanulate, its teeth deltoid-acumin- 
ate, tipped with a white arista, hirsute-ciliate: corolla 6lines long, purplish, 
puberulent outside; lower lip spotted with white. Along river banks, 
Hoquiam Washington. 
I refer here with doubt specimens that I collected along Trask river 
Tillamook Co. Oregon. 
