MINT FAMILY. Labiatae. 



sand, as this is a famous bee-plant and the white honey 

 made from it is peculiarly delicious. It grows abundantly 

 in valleys and on hillsides, from Santa Barbara to San 

 Diego, and has a very strong disagreeable smell. 



A conspicuous shrubby plant, from 

 Black Sage, three to six feet high ^ with st jflg s h leaves, 



Ramdna stocky- which are downy on the under side, 

 o\des (Audibertia) wrinkled on the upper, and grayish-green 

 Lilac, white an d downy when young, but become 



^ pr !f g . smoother and dark green as they grow 



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older. The flowers are pale lilac or white, 



half an inch long, and the calyx-lobes and bracts are tipped 

 with bristles. The compact flower clusters, usually about 

 five in number and rather small, are arranged in tiers on 

 long slender stalks, which stand up stiffly all over the 

 bush. This is common on southern hillsides, often forming 

 dense thickets for long distances, smells strong of sage and 

 is an important bee-plant. 



There are several kinds of Hyptis, very abundant in 

 South America and Mexico, but only a few reaching the 

 southwestern border of our country; the calyx with five 

 almost equal teeth; the corolla short, the lower lip sac- 

 shaped and abruptly turned back, the other four lobes 

 nearly equal and flat; the stamens four, included in the 

 sac of the lower lobe. 



A shrub, from three to five feet high, 

 Hyptis Emoryi w ^ ver y P a l e roundish, woody stems 

 Purple and branches and small, very pale gray 



Spring leaves, thickish and soft, covered with 



Arizona white woo u y down. The little fragrant, 



bluish-purple flowers, with white woolly calyxes, are 

 crowded in close clusters about an inch long. Only a few 

 flowers are out at one time and they are too small to be 

 pretty, but the effect of the shrub as a whole is rather 

 conspicuous and attractive, on account of its delicate 

 coloring, the lilac of the flower-clusters harmonizing with 

 the gray foliage, which gives out a very strong smell of 

 sage when crushed. This grows among the rocks above the 

 Desert Laboratory at Tucson and in similar places, bloom- 

 ing in early spring and much visited by bees. 



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