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Allied to Kcithia, but with a different habit, and a shorter corolla than in any of the described 

 species of that genus. In the calyx it differs from both genera. It may remain in Hedeoma 

 for the present, but, if other species like it should be found, it may bo the type of a new genus. 

 Hedeoma DRumiONDi, Benth. Lcib.}). 308, & in DO. Prodr. 12, p. 245. H. acinoides, Scheele 

 in Linncea 22,^. 592.^ Sandy hills, Mexico, western Texas, and Chihuahua. (No. 463, 1518, 

 1519, and 1522, Wriglit. ; No. 620, Fendler, N. Mex. ; No. 285, fasc. II. Lindheimer,) This 

 species is certainly annual, and never perennial nor saiTrutescent, as Benthaai supposed it to be. 



* It is a variable plant. Sometimes it is dwarf and cespitose ; the leaves are linear-oblong or ovate, 



and sessile with a narrow base, or with a petiole nearly as long as the lamina ; the calyx is more 



or less hairy, and when the plant grows in shady places the tube of the corolla is about the 

 length of the calyx, while usually it is only about half as long* H. ciliata, Ntitt. PI. Gamh, p. 

 183, is probably only a^variety of this polymorphous species. 



Spiiacele calycina, Bentli. Lab. jp, 568, and in DQ. Prodr. 12, p, 255. (Tab. XXXVII.) 

 Near Monterey, California, May ; Parry. A strong plant, 2-3 feet high, somewhat shrubby 

 at the base. 



Salvia lanceolata, Willd. Enum. 1, p. 37; Benth. in DG. Prodr. 12, p. 299. S, trichoste- 



moides, PursJij FL 1, p. 19. Borders of the Rio Grande in western Texas, Chihuahua, and 

 New Mexico ; west to the Copper Mines. (No. 469, 470, and 1529, Wright; the last a very 



narrow leaved form. No. 606 /9 & 608, Fendl.^ N. Mex., the former a small state of the plant.) 



Salvia azurea, Lam.; Benth. I. c, p. 302 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1728. S. angustifolia, Michx. FL 2, 

 p. 13. S. Pitcherl, Torr. in Benth. Lab. p. 251. S. cfBsia, Scheele^ in Linnmaj 22, p. 588. 

 Common along the Rio G-rande, in New Mexico. S. farinacea, Benth. seems hardly distinct 

 from this species. No. 468 Wright ^ is a narrow-leaved form. 



Salvia albiflora, 3Iari. & Galeotti in Bull. Acad. Britx. v. IL 

 p. 307- In damp situations, Santa Magdalena, Sonora ; Thurher, Schott. Plant about 3 feet 

 high, paniculately branched above, smooth. Lower leaves l-|-2 inches long and an inch 

 broad, on petioles an inch or more in length, acuminate, mostly acute at the base, serrate. 

 Whorls about 6 -flowered, rather closely approximate, forming long racemes, which are nearly 

 leafless. Pedicels two-thirds as long as the calyx. Upper lip of the calyx entire ; lower 

 2-toothed. Corolla about 4 lines long ; the upper lip strongly pubescent. 



Salvia spicata, Boem. d Schult. Sysf. Mant. 1, p. 202 ; Benth. I. c. p. 315 ? Apache Springs, 

 March ; Parry. Our plant accords with the description of Roemer & Schultes, and it appears 

 also to be the same as S. breviflora, Mac. & Sesse. 



Salvia ballot^flora, Benth. Lab. p. 270. S. laxa, Benth. in DC. Prodr. 12, p. 313. On 

 the Lower Eio Grande and its tributaries, and in the Mexican States south of the Grila ; common- 



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(No. 4Y1, 472, 1524, and 1525, Wright. No. 821, 1431, 2240, 



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shrubby species, 2-5 feet high, variable in the form and size of the leaves. Flowers bright 

 purplish-blue. Our numerous specimens show a gradual transition from S. ballota^flora to S. 



laxa. 



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Mount Carmel, near the Great Canon of the Rio Grande ; Parry. Dry prairies between Elm 

 creek and Turkey creek ; Schott. Mr. Bentham, to whom I sent specimens of this plant, says, 

 that it is *' very near S. microph} lla, but the leaves are almost entire and not rugose ; the calyces 

 also are longer/' It is a shrubby and apparently somewhat spreading plant. The leaves are 



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