MINT FAMILY. Lablatae. 



nate with its lobes; ovary superior, with four lobes, sepsu 

 rating when ripe into four, small, smooth, one-seeded 

 nutlets, surrounding the base of the two-lobed style, like 

 the four nutlets of the Borage Family, but the flowers of the 

 latter are regular. These plants are used medicinally and 

 include many herbs used for seasoning, such as Sage, 

 Thyme, etc. 



There are a few kinds of Micromeria; trailing perennials; 

 flowers small; calyx tubular, with five teeth; corolla two- 

 lipped, with a straight tube; stamens four, all with anthers, 

 not protruding. The Greek name means "small." 



An attractive little plant, resembling 

 the Httle eastern Gill-over-the-ground, 

 with slender trailing stems, slightly downy 

 Chamissdnis foliage, and lilac or whitish flowers, about 

 (M. DouglasH) a quarter of an inch long. The calyx and 



Lilac, white corolla are hairy on the outside; the 



Spring, summer 



Cal. Oreg., Wash. cor U a has an erect upper lip, sometimes 

 notched, and a spreading, three-lobed 

 lower lip, and the stamens are four, the lower pair shorter. 

 This is common in shady places near the coast. It has a i 

 pleasant aromatic fragrance and was used medicinally by 

 California Indians, so it was called "good herb" by the j 

 Mission Fathers, and is still used as a tea by Spanish- 

 Calif ornians, who call it Yerba Buena del Campo, "field 

 herb," distinguishing it from Yerba Buena del Poso, "herb 

 of the well," the garden mint. 



There are several kinds of Monardella, fragrant herbs, , 

 all western, chiefly Californian; leaves mostly toothless; 

 flowers small, in terminal heads, on long flower-stalks, with 

 bracts, which are often colored; calyx tubular, with five, 

 nearly equal teeth; corolla with erect upper lip, two-cleft, 

 lower lip with three, nearly equal lobes; stamens four, 

 protruding, sometimes the lower pair longer. 



An attractive plant, pretty in color and 

 Western Penny- f with purplish often branching 



royal, j Mustang 

 2 int stems, from six inches to over two feet 



Monardella high, smooth leaves, and small bright 



lanceolata pinkish-lilac flowers, crowded in terminal 



la( heads, about an inch across, with purplish 



California bracts. The outer ring of flowers blooms 



first and surrounds a knob of small greel 



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