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L S. spathacea, Greene. Very stout perennial, or the bases of the 

 stems enduring, 1 3 ft. high, very villous and glandular, honey-scented, 

 or when bruised more aromatic : lowest leaves hastate-lanceolate, obtuse, 

 3 8 in. long, on margined petioles; upper oblong, sessile, all very 

 rugose, sinuate-crenate, white-tomentose beneath: fi. densely capitate- 

 glomerate; heads large, interruptedly spicate: calyx % in. long, spathe- 

 like and closed by conduplication, the orifice oblique; 2 lower teeth very 

 short: corolla crimson, l^j in. long: anther-cell 1 only; rudimentary 

 arm of the connective very short. Hills near the coast, from San 

 Francisco southward. 



2. S. carduaeea, Benth. Very stout erect annual, 1 2 ft. high: 

 stem nearly naked, but with a cluster of ample sinuate-pinnatifid spinu- 

 lose-toothed leaves at base, these and the whole plant, except the flower, 

 white-woolly and thistle-like : head-like verticillasters 14, dense, 1 in. 

 broad, equalled or surpassed by the ovate-lanceolate spinescently pec- 

 tinate-toothed bracts: calyx long- woolly, many-nerved; its upper 3- 

 toothed, the middle tooth large, the laterals smaller and distant: corolla 

 1 in. long, rather light blue; its tube exserted; upper lip erose dentic- 

 ulate and cleft; lower with an excessively large flabelliform fimbriately 

 many-cleft middle lobe: proper filaments very short; lower arm of the 

 long filiform connective bearing a polliniferous anther-cell. Dry Hills 

 of Contra Costa Co. March, April. 



3. S. Columbarise, Benth. Slender annual, branching and leafy 

 below, 8 18 in. high, naked and peduncle-like above, bearing few 

 closely bracted rather large capitate clusters of small flowers: leaves 

 rugulose, once or twice pinnatifid into toothed or incised divisions: 

 upper lip of calyx large, arched, tipped with a pair of partly connate 

 short-awned teeth, much exceeding the two small teeth of the lower lip: 

 corolla small, hardly longer than the calyx, deep blue; upper lip small, 

 notched; lower with small lateral lobes, and large unguiculate trans- 

 versely oval 2-lobed middle one Throughout the coast ranges, on dry 

 hills and sandy plains. 



4. S. inellifera, Greene. Shrubby, 38 ft. high, with herbaceous 

 flowering branches, leafy, cinereous-tomentose as to the growing parts, 

 but glabrate in age: leaves oblong-lanceolate, petiolate, rugulose and 

 crenate: dense capitate flower- clusters small, several at the end of each 

 branchlet: calyx oblique, the teeth cuspitate and several- awned: corolla 

 white or pinkish, small and little exserted. Contra Costa and San Mateo 

 counties, on hillsides. 



12. RAMONA, Greene. Shrubs or undershrubs, with habit, foliage, 

 inflorescence, and even the peculiar spathe-like oblique calyx of the 

 Californian Salvias; but corolla with no proper upper lip; its throat 

 inflated and horizontally split, the upper portion of this either obsolete, 



