410 LABIATE. (mint FAMILY.) 



3. P. linifolium, Pur^li. Smoother and leaves narrower and heads less 

 dowiiy than in the last ; the narrower bracts and I ance-awJ -shaped calt/x-teefh 

 pujigentli/ pointed. — Dry ground, Mass. to Minn., south to Fla. and Tex. 



•*- -1- Leaves lanceolate to ovate, sessile or nearlij so, denticulate or entire ; heads 

 larger and fewer, with fewer and looser bracts. 



4. P. muticum, Pers. Minuteli/ hoan/ throughout, or becoming almost 

 smooth, corymbosely much branched (1-2^° higli) ; leaves ovate or broadly 

 ovate-lanceolate, varying to lanceolate, rather rigid, acute, rounded or slighfli/ 

 heart-shaped at base, mostly sessile and minutely sharp-toothed, prominently 

 veined, green when old; theforal ones, short bracts, and triangular or ovate 

 calyx-teeth, hoary ivith a fine close down; flower-clusters very dense. — Maine 

 to S. 111., south to 11a. and Ark. 



Var. pilosum, Gray. Hoary with loose pubescence ; leaves thinner, oblong- 

 lanceolate, in(;stly acute or acutish at base ; bracts and especially tlie narrower 

 (often somewhat unequal) calyx-teeth often villous-pubescent. (P. pilosum, 

 Nutt.) — Ohio to Iowa, Kan., and Ark. 



5. P. leptodon, (xray. Soft-pubescent , or glabrate below, loosely branched ; 

 leaves membranaceous, green (H-2' long), /«?;ceo/«<e or oblong-lanceolate, sub- 

 sessile ; clusters larger and looser, canescent-hirsute ; long-acuminate bracts and 

 calyx-teeth slender-subulate, villous-hirsute. — S. Mo. to northwestern N. C. 



-«- -I- -*- Leaves linear- or oblong -lanceolate, short-petioled, not at all hoary ; flow- 

 ers in mostly terminal dense capitate clusters ; calyx hoary-pubescent. 



6. P. Torreyi, Benth. Puberulent; stem strict and nearly simple (2 - 

 3° high); leaves thin, Hnear4anceolate, tapering to both ends (mostly 2' long 

 and 2-3" wide),»?ecfr/y entire ; heads small ; a^vl shaped calyx-teeth and mostly 

 appressed bracts canostent. — Dry soil, southern N. Y. to Penn. and Del. 



7. P. clinopodioides, Gray. Pubescent; leaves broadly or oblong-lan- 

 ceolate, sharply denticulate (sometimes entire) ; heads fewer and larger; bracts 

 loose. — Dry soil, southern N. Y. to E. Penn. 



* * * Calyx bilabiate (3 upper teeth xinited), the teeth and the tips of the loose 



bracts not rigid : flowers in dense fattened glomerate cymes; leaves thin, 

 mostly serrate, petioled, the uppermost more or less canesceni. 



8. P. Tlillia, Benth. Leaves greener and loosely soft-downy, only the 

 floral ones whitened, otherwise resembling those of the next ; cymes dense ; 

 bracts much surpassing the fowers, their long awn-like points and the awn- 

 pointed calyx-teeth bearded with long loose hairs. — S. Va. and N. C. to Tenn. 

 and Ga. 



9. P. ineanum, Michx. Leaves ovate-oblong, acute, remotely toothed. 

 downy above and mostly hoary with irhitiih wool vnderneath,the uppermost ichit- 

 ened both sides ; cymes open ; bracts linear-awl-shaped and, with the calyx-teeth, 

 more or less awn-pointed. — N. Eng. to Ont. and Ind., south to Fla. and Tex. 



* * * * Calyx equally 5-toothed ; heads few, large and globose {terminal and 



in the upper axils of the thin petioled leaves) ; bracts loose, ciliate-bearded. 



10. P. montanum, Michx. Stem (1-3° high) and ovate- or oblong- 

 lanceolate serrate leaves glabrous ; bracts very acute or awl-pointed, the outer- 

 most ovate and leaf-like, the inner linear ; teeth of the tubular calyx short and 

 acute. — Alleghanies, from S. Va. and Tenn. to Ga. and Ala. 



