Audibertia. LABIATE. 373 



tapering into a slender petiole ; the mostly inconspicuous floral ones and the bracts vil- 

 lous, membranaceous, ovate-lanceolate and lanceolate: calyx distinctly bilabiate but 

 rather more deeply cleft between the anterior teetli ; these and tlie 3 teeth of the ample 

 concave upper lip subulate but not rigid ; lower lip of the corolla crenulate-erose : stamens 

 and style long-exserted : connective continuous with the filament. — From tlie Yuba River 

 to San Diego Co., but rare. 

 A. Stachyoides, Benth. I.e. Shrubby, branching and leafy, a yard or more high, 

 cinereous-tomentulose or glabrate, rigid: leaves somewhat less rugose than in the last, 

 more crenate, oblong-lanceolate, narrowed at base or short-petioled ; tlie floral and ovate 

 or^ oblong bracts with the teeth of the bilabiate calyx cuspidate-acuminate or spinulose- 

 aristulate (rarely almost muticous) : style and especially the stamens little exserted : sub- 

 ulate appendage of connective often manifest. — From San Francisco Bay to the southern 

 borders of the State : forming thickets. 



•H- ++ Corolla from two-thirds to three-fourths inch long, with tube much surpassing the calyx and 

 short more or less pointed thinnish bracts: upper lip of the calyx 1-3-mucronatc; teeth'of the 

 lower cuspidate: .stamens and style moderately exserted: stems woody below, 4 to 8 feet high, 

 with herbaceous long and virpate branches: glbmerules rather large, scattered or rather distant: 

 foliage minutely tomentose-cauescent. 



A. Palmeri, Gray. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acute (not unlike those of the preceding 

 species), the larger 2 or 3 inches long: verticillastrate heads several (4 to 8) and remote in 

 the elongated virgate spike : bracts oblong or lanceolate, slender-cuspidate or acuminate : 

 lower calyx-teeth subulate-setaceous. — Bot. Calif, i. 601. — Near Tighe's Ranch, mountains 

 north-east of San Diego, Palmer. , 



A. Clevelandi, Gray. Leaves oblong, or the. upper lanceolate-oblong, all obtuse, sel- 

 dom over an inch or so in length : heads fewer, often solitary or terminating short axillary 

 branches : bracts ovate or oblong, mucronate or abruptly short-pointed, viscid-pubescent, 

 as is the calyx ; the lower teeth of which are short and subulate, the upper lip entire and 

 cuspidate-tipped. — Proc. Am. Acad. x. 76, & Bot. Calif. 1. c. — Mountains behind San 

 Diego, Cleveland, Palmer. 



++++++ Corolla barel3' half inch long; its tube hardlj- exceeding the herbaceous obtuse and 

 muticous bracts and calyx teeth : whole plant hoary-white. 



A. nivea, Benth. Canescent with a close white-farinose tomentum, 3 or 4 feet high, 

 shrubby below, leafy : leaves oblong-lanceolate, or the lowest ovate, obtuse ; upper with 

 truncate base, very short-petioled : bracts oval or oblong : calyx splitting down anteriorly, 

 at length emarginate posteriorly : corolla light-purple : stamens and style mucli exserted : 

 connective almost continuous with the filament. — Lab. 313 & DC. 1. c — Dry hills, from 

 Santa Barbara to San Diego Co. 



§ 2. Inflorescence thyrsoid-paniculate : floral leaves, bracts, and bractlets small 

 and loose, at length reflexed, lanceolate or subulate, cuspidate-tipped : corolla with 

 ample lower lip twice the length of the upper ; the tube very short. 



A. polystachya, Benth. 1. c. Shrubby, 3 to 10 feet high, minutely tomentose-canes- 

 cent : branches and elongated naked thyrsus virgate : leaves mostly very white, oblong-lan- 

 ceolate, minutely rugose and crenulate, 2 or 3 inches long: flowers subsessile, loose : upper 

 lip of the calyx truncate or 3-toothed, at length concave or galeate, longer than the trian- 

 gular-subulate lower teeth: corolla pale or white; lower lip half inch and tube quarter 

 inch long : style and divergent stamens long-exserted : filiform connective continuous with 

 the filament, its lower end usually indicated by a minute tooth. — Arid hills, Santa Bar- 

 bara to San Diego Co. One of the shrubs called Grease-wood. 



30. MONARDA, L. Horse-Mint. (Nicolas Monardes, early writer upon 

 American medicinal plants.) — Aromatic erect herbs (of Atlantic N. America, 

 reaching to the Rocky Mountains), usually tall ; with the large verticillastrate-capi- 

 tate glomerules single, or as if proliferous-spicate, or in upper axils, and involu- 

 crate by numerous sometimes colored outer bracts and floral leaves : flowers rather 

 large, in summer. (Gray, Pi'oc. Am. Acad. viii. 369.) 



