372 LABIATE. Salvia. 



S. SclArea, L. (Clary.) Biennial, villous-pubescent, viscid : stem stout, 2 or 3 feet high : 

 leaves ample, long-petioled, ovate and cordate, crenate, rugose ; floral forming bracts of 

 the cylindrical or interrupted spike, ovate, acuminate, tinged with white and rose-color : 

 calyx campanulate; teeth spinulose-acuminate : corolla white and bluish, rather large, 

 widely ringent ; its short tube included; long upper lip falcate and compressed. — Penn- 

 sylvania, escaped from gardens. (Nat. from Eu.) 



S. VERBENACEA, L., Muhl. Perennial, pubescent or villous, a foot or two high : leaves ovate 

 or oblong, often cordate at base, obtuse, mostly sinuate-incised or moderately pinnatifid 

 and the lobes crenate-toothed, rugose, almost glabrous; the few cauhne mostly sessile; 

 the floral inconspicuous, rounded-ovate : raceme interrupted : calyx reflexed after flower- 

 ing; its broad and rounded upper lip recurved-spreading, with 3 minute connivent teeth ; 

 the lower of 2 longer triangular-subulate and cuspidate teeth, equalling the throat of the 

 small bluish corolla, the upper lip of which is nearly straight. — S- Cluytoni, EU., excl. 

 reference to Clayton, whose plant is S. h/rata? — Dry sandy pastures around Beaufort, 

 S. Carolina, Elliott. Sparingly seen in the Middle States. (Nat. from Eu.) 



29. AUDIBEBTIA, Benth. {3f. Audihert of Tarascon, Provence.) — 

 W. North American (all Californian, one species of wider range), fruticose or 

 perennial-herbaceous, mostly canescent-tomentose ; with crenate or crenulate and 

 reticulated leaves, and flowers resembling those of Salvia of the S. officinalis 

 type : fl. spring and summer. (Noted bee-plants in S. California.) 



§ 1. Inflorescence densely verticillastrate-glomerate and interrupted-spicate, 

 much bracteate : corolla with tube longer than the limb. 



* Large-flowered: corolla fully inch and a half long, crimson-purple; upper lip rather erect and 



short, emarginate : lower leaves cordate or hastate at base. 

 A. grandiflora, Benth. Stem villous and glandular, stout,' suffrutescent, 2 or 3 feet 

 high : leaves very rugose, tomentose beneath, sinuate-crenate ; lower mostly hastate-lan- 

 ceolate, obtuse, 3 to 8 inches long, on margined petioles ; upper oblong and sessile ; floral 

 and bracts of the large heads broadly ovate, membranaceous : calyx spathaceous, deeply 

 cleft between the two small anterior cuspidate-tipped teeth ; ample concave upper lip 

 3-denticuIate : stamens much exserted : a conspicuous slender tooth representing the lower 

 fork of the connective. — Lab. 312, & DC. Prodr. xii. 359; Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound, t. 38 

 (sterile filaments wrongly represented) ; Gray, Bot. Calif, i. 600. — California Coast Ranges, 

 &c., from San Mateo Co. southward. 



* * Smaller-flowered : corolla less than an inch long, violet or bluish : leaves not cordate, 

 -t- Bracts, upper floral lea^-es, and bilabiate calyx scarious-membranaceous, reticulated, usually 



colored, obtuse and muticous (or at most niucronate); the former large and roundish, half inch or 



more long, hnbricating the close heads: corolla only half inch long, narrow, and with short hmb: 



low suffniticose species of the interior arid region. 

 A. incana, Benth. 1. c. Closely tomentose-canescent, leafy : leaves spatulate or obovate, 

 obtuse or 'refuse, not rugose, entire (or sparsely crenulate), seldom inch long : bracts 

 obovate or oval, pubescent and ciliate, purple-tinged: calyx turbinate; anterior teeth 

 ovate or oblong, rather shorter than the truncate and emarginate very broad upper lip : 

 stamens much exserted : connective with or without a dentiform appendage. —Lindl. Bot. 

 Reg. t. 1469 ; Gray, 1. c. — From interior of Washington Terr, and Idaho south to Arizona, 

 and along the eastern borders of California. 

 A. capitata, Gray. Cinereous-puberulent : leaves oblong, acutish, very rugose, crenu- 

 late, slender-petioled : bracts of solitary head ovate or oval, apparently whitish : flowers, 

 &c.,'of the preceding. — Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 387, & Bot. Calif. 1. c. — Providence Moun- 

 tains, San Bernardino Co., S. E. California, Cooper. 

 ^_ 4_ Bracts more or less herbaceous, at least not colored: leaves minutely rugose, crenulate: 



species restricted to California. 



•t-i- Corolla barely half inch long : all the calyx-teeth and bracts subulate or aristate-tipped. 

 A. humilis, Benth. 1. c. Stems simple and only a span high from a thickened suffruti- 

 cose base, almost leafless and scapiform : leaves crowded at the base, lanceolate or spatu- 

 late-oblon'g, very obtuse, finely rugose, densely crenulate, canescent, an inch or more long, 



