Monardella. LABIATE. 357 



an inch or two long, all distinctly petioled ; veins conspicuous, impressed above : heads 

 large : bracts orbicular and ovate, nervose. — S. E. California, San Bernardino Co., Pmru 

 & Lemmon. 



M. villosa, Benth. Soft-pubescent, or the heads and lower face of leaves villous, or 

 sometimes the whole herbage glabrate, a span to a foot high : leaves ovate, 6 to 14 lines 

 long, all petioled, from sparsely crenate-dentate to nearly entire: veins conspicuous, widely 

 spreading: bracts .ovate, foliaceous, more or less pinnately veined. — Lab. 332, Bot. Sulph. 

 t. 21, & DC. 1. c. 190; Gray, Bot. Cahf. i. 692. — Woods and banks, nearly throughout the 

 western part of California, especially along the coast. Leaves in the typical form often 

 tomentose beneath 



Var. leptosiphon, Torr. A rather large-flowered form, cinereous with a finer 

 pubescence, and ovate-oblong or ovate-lanceolate nearly entire leaves. — Bot. Mex. Bound. 

 129. — Li tl)e central part of the State. 



Var. glabella, Gray. Minutely cinereous-pubescent or puberulent, or glabrate, 

 except the head : leaves oblong, entire or barely and sparingly denticulate ; upper ones 

 sometimes subsessile : veins much less conspicuous. — Bot. Calif. 1. c. M. Shelioni, Torr. in 

 Jour. Acad. Philad. n. ser. ii. 99. — Pine woods, tlirough the Sierra Nevada and valley of 

 the Sacramento. There are transitions to the next. 



M. odoratissima, Benth. 1. c. Cinereous-puberulent or minutely tomentulose, or 

 nearly glabrous, but pale ; a span to a foot high : leaves from narrowly oblong to broadly 

 lanceolate, entire or nearly so, short-petioled, or the upper subsessile, firm in texture, both 

 sides alike ; the veins inconspicuous or obscure : bracts thin-membranaceous and colored 

 (whitish or purple), nervose: calyx-teeth (as in the preceding) hirsute without and within : 

 odor of Pennyroyal. — Dry hills, Washington Terr., Oregon, and through the higher 

 mountains of California, Nevada, and Utah. 



-t— -1— Leaves linear or oblong-linear, entire, thickish and nearly veinless, half to two-thirds inch 

 long, subsessile, or the lower oblong and petioled and with a few veins. 



M. linoides, Gray. Canescent or cinereous with an almost imperceptible puberulence : 

 stems a span to 18 inches high, strict and rigid : bracts ovate, mucronate-acute, scarious- 

 membranaceous and wliite with pinkish, pinnately nervose : calyx-teeth narrowly lanceo- 

 late, merely pubescent : odor of Bergamot. — Proc. Am. Acad. & Bot. Calif. 1. c. — Southern 

 California, in mountains of San Diego Co. and on the Mohave, Cleveland, Palmer, Parry & 

 Lemmon, &c. 



M. Palmeri. Glabrous and green, or obscurely puberulent up to the pubescent and pro- 

 portionally large head, a span high : bracts ovate, very obtuse, more nervose, otherwise 

 as in the preceding : calyx-teeth linear-lanceolate. — San Luis Obispo Co., California, under 

 Redwoods in the Santa Lucia mountains. Palmer. 



* * Annuals: from a span to a foot or more high, loosely branching: leaves entire or merely 

 undulate, more distant, narrowed at base into a petiole : calyx-teeth mostly with rather strong 

 marginal nerves. 



•i- Bracts rigidly cuspidate-acuminate, white and transparent-scaridus, except the nerves or veins : 

 corolla biiglit rose or pui-ple. 



M. Douglasii, Benth. 1. c. Pubescent: leaves lanceolate: bracts ovate and ovate-lan- 

 ceolate, tapering gradually into the cusp, more or less hirsute, fenestrate, the pinnate 

 spreading greenish veins running from midrib to stout marginal nerves, forming a firm 

 frame for the hyaline and silvery interspaces : teeth of tiie hirsute calyx rigid and subu- 

 late : scent strong. — M. candicans, var. venosa, Torr. in Pacif. R. Rep. iv. 123. — California, 

 through the valley and westward. 



M. Breweri, Gray. Puberulent : leaves ovate-oblong : bracts broadly ovate, abruptly 

 cuspidate-pointed, less translucent, and with slender more nervose and whitish veins, only 

 those of the outermost bracts strongly pinnate, destitute of strong marginal nerves : calyx- 

 teeth triangular-subulate, merely acute. — Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 386, xi. 102, & Bot. Calif. 

 i. 594. — California, in Corral-Hollow, Contra-Costa Co. 



•*— H— Bracts acute or obtuse: nervose, less translucent or tlie outer herbaceous: corolla rose-color 

 or purple : calyx-teeth not subulate, short. 



M. lanceolata, Gray. Green and almost glabrous, or the stem puberulent : leaves 

 oblong-lanceolate or narrower, tapering into a slender petiole; the uppermost and the 

 ovate or ovate-lanceolate bracts acute ; the latter with cross-veinlets between the nerves or 



