Monardelhi. LABIATJ']. 5^3 



Diy ami 01)011 ground ; common nearly t.hrougliout tlio Stato to tlin soiillicin boundarv and the 

 frontiers of Nevada. The var. (jlabcllum is a green and glabrate sUte, hardly needing a distinc- 

 tive name. ' n ^ o 



6. MONARDELLA, Benth. 

 Calyx tubular, narrow or elongated, 10 - 13-nerved, 5-tootlicd ; the teeth short, 

 straight, and nearly equal ; the throat naked within. Corolla with the tube either 

 slightly or manifestly longer than the calyx, glal)rous within ; the 2-cleft upper lip 

 and the lobes of the 3-parto(l lower one all Hat and linear or oblong. Stamens 

 4, exserted, either strongly or moderately unequal : anther-cells often divergent or 

 divaricate. — Annual or perennial sweet-odorous herbs (all Californian, oiie°or two 

 extending to Oregon) ; with the aspect, inflorescence and calyx of Afonarda, and the 

 corolla rather of P ycnanthemnm, but mostly on a larger scale : the flowers compacted 

 in terminal heads involucrate with bracts, rose-color, purple, or white. Leaves 

 entire or obscurely toothed. — Lab. 331, & DC. Prodr. xii. 190. 



§ 1. Flowers comparatively few and loose in the head, large: corolla mostly with long- 

 exserted tube : anther-cells oval-oblong, divaricate. 



1. M. macrantha, Gray. Perennial, tufted, a span high from creeping rather 

 woody rootstocks, puberulent or pubescent: leaves thickish, ovate, obtuse (6 to 10 

 lines long), glabrate, slender-petioled : bracts of the 10- 20-f lowered head ovate or 

 oblong, obtuse, thin-membranaceous or somewhat scarious, sometimes whitish or 

 purplish-tinged, externally like the calyx villous-i)uboflcont : tooth of the latter lan- 

 ceolate, merely acute : corolla about an inch and a half long, glabrous, oran-e-rod • 

 Its tube fully twice the length of the calyx; the lobes lanceolate. — Pro? Am' 

 Acad. XI. 100. ■ ■ 



Cuiamnra Mountains and near Julian City, northeast of Snn Diogo, Cfrrehvd, Pahnrr Calyx 

 three fourths or ,n fruit even a full inch long. Corolla often nearly 2 inches oner a, parent^ 

 bright orange-colored with the limb scarlet, the tube gradually enlarging upward. " ''1'^^'^^""^ 



2. M. nana, Gray, 1 c. Resembles the j.receding, with somewhat hirsute pu- 

 bescence : flowers smaller: corolla not twice the length of the calyx, white or 

 tinged with rose-color; the slen.ler tube pubescent : bracts wl.itisli and rose-color 



Mountains behind San Diego, C/arlnnd. Spociniens har.lly sumcient. Calyx barelv two 

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§ 2. Flotvers numerous and densely capitate: calyx from a fourth to a third of an 

 i7ich long : anther-cells shorter arid less divaricate. 



* Perennial in tufts f7-07n a procumbent and almost woody base, or from i^omewhat 

 creeping slender rootstocks : corolla from flesh-color to purple, the tube little if at all 

 exceeding the calyx. •' 



3 M. viUoaa, Honth. Soft-puboscont or villous, a foot or two high • joavos 

 ova e, Often with a few obtuse teeth, veiny (G to 10 li„os lo„g), po.tioled • bmcts 

 ovate fohaceous p.nnately veined. -Lab. 332, k J5ot. 8ulph. 42, t 21 - VarW 

 greatly, especially m the pubescence. ' ""^'"K 



\ZT ^®Pf°«jP^°°f '[""• = "^ ^f « pubescent form, with thinner and almost entire 

 Irx hount'l29 1"""^*^'"""^ ^^"^"''^^ '^"^« «^-««^t«'l tube to the corolla. -Bot 



Var. glabeUa, Gray: a form with nearly oblong loaves, somotimos almost ses- 

 sile, varying from 5 to 18 lines in length ; the pube.^-ence very clos , and nute !1 

 Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 386. M. Sheltoni, Torr. in Durand, Pf Prattou 



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