Stachys. LABIATE. gQ5 



perennials, branched from the base : leaves rugose : flowers small, much crowded in 

 axillary false whorls or heads. An Old World genus, a single species naturalized 

 in the Xew, used in popular medicine. 



1. M. vulgare, Linn. A foot or two high, hoary-woolly : leaves roundish, 

 crenate : flowers crowded in the upper axils : corolla small, white : calyx-teeth and 

 bracts hooked at the tip. 



Waste and dry grounds near the coast : naturalized from Europe. 



17. STACHYS, Linn. HEDGE-NETTLE. 



Calyx tubular-campanulate or turbinate, 5-10-nerved, nearly equally 5-toothed ; 

 the teeth sometimes rigid or spiny-pointed. Corolla with cylindrical tube, not 

 dilated at the throat ; the upper lip erect and concave or arched, entire or merely 

 emarginate ; the lower spreading and 3-lobed, its middle lobe larger. Stamens 4, 

 ascending under the upper lip : filaments naked : anthers approximate in pairs, 

 2-celled ; the cells either parallel or divergent. Nutlets obtuse, not truncate. 

 Herbs (or a few undershrubs), not aromatic; with flowers clustered, capitate, or 

 scattered, often spicate or racemose at the summit of the stem or branches : ours all 

 perennials, and the flowers sessile or nearly so. 



* Tube of the corolla little if at all longer than the calyx. 



+- Corolla ivhite or ivhitish ; the upper lip bearded or woolly on the back : herbage 



tomentose or soft-hairy. 



1. S. ajugoides, Benth. A span to a foot high, villous or silky-hirsute with 

 whitish hairs : leaves oblong, very obtuse, crenately toothed (1 to 3 inches long), 

 the base either obtuse or tapering into the petiole ; the upper sessile : flowers about 

 3 in the axils of the distant upper ordinary leaves, and loosely leafy-spicate at the 

 summit, mostly surpassed by the floral leaves: calyx short-cam panulate, very hairy; 

 its teeth ovate and merely mucronate-acuminate. Prodr. xii. 474. 



Moist grounds, common from Monterey to Lake Co. 



2. S. albens, Gray. Tall (3 to 5 feet high) and rather strict, soft-tomentose 

 throughout with white or whitish wool, leafy : leaves oblong or ovate and mostly 

 cordate, obtuse, crenate (2 or 3 inches long), the lower short-petioled, the upper 

 nearly sessile : flowers several or numerous in the capitate clusters, which mostly 

 exceed the floral leaves and form an interrupted at length elongated virgate spike 

 (from 3 to 9 inches long) : calyx turbinate-campanulate, its teeth triangular and 

 awn-pointed : corolla white with purple dots on the lower lip, glabrous except the 

 villous beard on the back of the upper lip. Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 387. 



Moist and rich soil, on the mountains and foot-hills of the Sierra Nevada, from Fort Tejon to 

 Santa Clara and Tuolumne Co. 



3. S. pycnantha, Benth. Two feet high or more, very hirsute or villous with 

 long and mostly soft spreading hairs, not white : leaves oblong-ovate and somewhat 

 cordate, obtuse, crenate (2 to 4 inches long), all but the floral ones rather long 

 petioled : flowers in a dense cylindraceous naked spike (an inch or two long), ex- 

 ceeding the small bract-like floral leaves except in the lowest and sometimes rather 

 distant clusters : calyx-teeth triangular and slightly mucronate : corolla apparently 

 white or cream color with purple on the lower lip, the upper lip strongly bearded 

 on the back. PL Hartw. 331. 



Monterey Co. (Hartweg) to near San Francisco, Kellogg. 



-t- 4- Corolla purple, the upper lip more or less hairy on the back : pubescence hirsute 

 or hispid, at least on the stem; no tomentum. 



