Stachys. LABIATJ^>. (jQfj 



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

 axillarj^ false wliorls or heads. — An Old "World genus, a single species naturalized 

 in the New, used in popular medicine. 



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

 crenate : flowers crowiled in the u]>per axils : corolla small, white : calyx-teeth and 

 bracts hooked at the tip. 



Waste and diy grounds near tlio const: imturnlizcd from Kiuopo. 



17. STACHYS, Linn. IIkdch-Nkttle. 

 Calyx tubular-campanulato 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 lij) 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 : fdaments naked : anthers approximate in pairs, 

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

 Herbs (or a few undershndis), 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 white or whiti»h ; the upper lip bearded or ivoolly on the hack : herba</e 



tomentose or soft-hairy. 



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

 whitish hairs: heaves oblong, very obtuse, crenatoly 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 oniinary leaves, and loosely leafy-spicate at the 

 summit, mostly surpassed by tlie floral leave.'^ : calyx short-campanulate, very hairy; 

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



Moist grounds, common from Alonterey to Lake Co. 



2. S. albens, Gray. Tall (3 to 5 feet high) and mther strict, soft-tomento.so 

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

 cordate, obtuse, crenate (2 or 3 inches long), the lower short-pctioled, the upi^-r 

 nearly sessile : flowers several or numerous in tlie 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 purjde 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-liills of the Sierra Nevada, from Fort Tejon to 

 Santa Clara and Tuolumne Co. 



3. S. pycnantha, P.enth. Two feet high or more, very hii-sute 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 tlio 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 muoronato : comlla appai-ently 

 white or creain color with purple on the lower lip, the upper lip stroULrlv boarded 

 on the back. — PI. Ilartw. 331. 



Monterey Co. {Hartwrg) to near San Francisco, Kcllogq. 

 ■«- •+- Corolla purjyle, the upper lip more or less hairy on the back : pubescence hirsute 

 or hispid, at least on the stem ; vo tomeutinn. 



