Stachys. LABIATE. 605 



perennials, branched from the base: leaves nigose : flowers small, nnich crowded in 

 axillary false whorls or heads. — An Old World genns, a single species jiaturalized 

 in the New, 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 ^mall, white : calyx-teeth and 

 bracts hooked at the tip. 



Waste and diy gi'ouuds 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 tvhite or ivhitish ; the upper lip heardecl or woolhj on the hack : 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. 4.74. 



Moist grounds, common from Monterey to Lake Co. 



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

 throuoliout 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, Avliich mostly 

 exceed the floral leaves and form an interrupted at length elongated yirgate 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. 38/. 



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 

 lono- 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- 

 ceedin" the small bract-like floral leaves except in the lowest and sometimes i-ather 

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

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

 on the back. — PL Hartw. 331. 



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

 ^ ^ Corolla imrple, the upper lip more or less hairy on the back : jmbescence hirsute 

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



