340 Labiatae 



lanceolate, acuminate, sessile or the lowest subsessile, with 3-5 

 strong, nearly parallel nerves, 2 cm. long ; cymes short-peduncled 

 or nearly sessile; calyx villous; corolla almost filiform, some- 

 what pubescent, blue. 



Frequent in dry fields, especially on the mesas in our interior valleys. 

 June-September. 



2. T. lanatum Benth. (ROMERO or WOOLLY BLUE-CURLS.) 

 Shrubby, about 1 m. high, very leafy; leaves thickish, narrowly 

 linear and with revolute margins, 1-nerved, glabrate and shining 

 above, canescent-tomentose beneath, sessile, many fascicled in 

 the axils, uppermost reduced to bracts; cymes in a naked 

 terminal, interrupted thyrsus, whole inflorescence clothed with 

 a dense violet or purple wool; corolla 1 cm. long; the filaments 

 fully twice as long. 



Occasional in the chaparral belt on dry ridges in all the mountain ranges 

 and extending northward as far as Monterey County. 



2. SCUTELLABIA L. SKULLCAP. 



Annual or perennial herbs, with flowers solitary or 

 2-3 together in the axils or in bracted racemes or spikes. 

 Calyx campanulate, gibbous, bilabiate, the lips entire, 

 the upper with a crest or protuberance upon its back, 

 often deciduous in fruit, the lower persistent. Corolla 

 much exserted, dilated above into the throat, glabrous 

 within, upper lip arched, entire or emarginate, the lower 

 spreading or deflexed, its lateral lobes small and some- 

 what connected with the upper, its middle lobe broad, 

 sometimes emarginate, the margins mostly recurved. 

 Stamens 4, didynamous, ascending under the upper lip, 

 the upper pair somewhat shorter ; anthers ciliate, the 

 upper pair 2-celled, the lower 1-celled. Style unequally 

 2-cleft at the apex ; ovary deeply 4-parted. Nutlets 

 subglobose or depressed, papillose or tuberculate. 



1. S. tuberosa Benth. Perennial by tuberiferous rootstocks, 

 soft-pubescent or villous; stems slender, often diffuse, 3-12 cm. 

 high, rather sparsely leafy; leaves mostly ovate, truncate or 

 cuneate at the base, thin, coarsely and obtusely few-toothed or 



