Mint Family 341 



nearly entire, 1-4 cm. long, nearly all petioled; floral about 

 equaling or longer than the flowers; corolla narrow, about 15 

 mm. long, blue. 



Occasional in shady places in all the hills and in the chaparral belt of the 

 mountains. April-June. 



2. S. Bolanderi Gray. Perennial by filiform rootstocks, pubes- 

 cent; stems slender, simple or branched from the base, about 3 

 dm. high, very leafy to the summit; leaves ovate-elliptic, very 

 obtuse, closely sessile by somewhat cordate base, 2.5 cm. long or 

 less; flowers short-pedicelled, seldom equaling the leaf; corolla 

 yellowish, throat inflated, villous within. 



Moist woods, El Monte, Davidson. 



3. MABBUBIUM L. HOARHOUND. 



Perennial, mostly woolly herbs, with dentate rugose 

 leaves, and small flowers in dense axillary clusters. 

 Calyx tubular, 5-10-nerved, regularly 5- 10- toothed, the 

 teeth acute or aristate, spreading or recurved in fruit. 

 Corolla-limb 2-lipped, the upper lip erect, entire or emar- 

 ginate, the lower spreading, 3-cleft, its broader middle 

 lobe commonly emarginate. Stamens 4, didynamous, 

 included, the posterior pair the shorter ; anthers 2-celled, 

 the sacs divergent. Style 2-cleft at the summit, the lobes 

 short. Ovary deeply 4-lobed. Nutlets ovoid, smooth. 



1. M. vulgare L. Stems stout, tufted, erect, white-woolly, 

 3-10 dm. high; leaves roundish crenate, except at the cuneate, 

 truncate or subcordate base, petioled, white-woolly beneath, 

 green above, 2-4 cm. long; flowers whitish ; x calyx-teeth usually 

 10, subulate. 



Common in waste places. Flowering nearly all the year. 



4. STACHYS L. HEDGE-NETTLE. 



Annual or perennial, commonly pubescent or hispid 

 herbs, with mostly purplish flowers loosely clustered in 

 terminal dense or interrupted spikes. Calyx mostly 

 campanulate, 5-toothed, the teeth nearly equal, erect or 

 spreading, pointed. Corolla-tube not dilated at the 



