132 UNITED STATES AND MEXICAN BOUND AEY. 



oblong, obtuse, narrowed at tbe base iuto a sliort petiole, green and nearly smootb on both sides, 



mar£;in. The flowers are in terminal racemes. Corolla 



more 



lip, and a little hairy. 



Benth. in DG. Prodr. 12, p. 343. Neuvo Leon : Thiirher. I 



same species, raised in the Cambridge (Mass.) 



garden, from 

 next species. 



from 



Salvia cocciNEA, Linn. 3Iant. p. 88; Benth. I. c. On the Eio Grande, from Laredo down- 

 ward ; Schoity Br. Edwards. Los Nogales, Sonora ; Gapt. E. K. Smith. 



Salvia Roemeriaxa, Scheele in Linncea^ 22, jp. 586. S. porphyrata, Decaisne in Bev. Hortic. 



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1854, ex Hook, Bot. 3Iag. t. 4939. Crossing of the San Pedro river, Texas, and on Live Oak 

 creekj a tributary of the Pecos ; also on mountains near the Rio Grande, in Chihuahua; Btgeloia. 



Mexico ; Thurher. (No. 473 and 1526, Wright,) This species varies greatly 

 the form reoresented in the Bot. Maa. I. c, f which is the same as Wrisrht's 



mbres. New 



in the foliage. 



and Bigelow's from Live Oak creek,) the leaves are mostly simple, (rarely pinnatifid, with a 

 pair of small remote segments,) broadly cordate, 1^-2 inches wide and coarsely runcinate- 

 toothed. The description of Scheele applies to Thurber's specimens and to those collected by 

 Bigelow in Chihuahua. It is a showy species, \vith large bright scarlet flowers. 



Salvia carduacea, Benth. Lah.jp. 302 ; Bot. Mag. t. 4874. ^, gossypina, Benth. PI. Hartw. 

 p, 330. Near San Diego, California ; Parry. 



Salvia Columbaria, Benth. I. c. ; Torr. Bot. Whippl. Rep. p. 123. San Pasqual, California, 

 May ; Thurher. Dry hills near San Diego, California; Parry. This plant is called Ghia^ by 

 the native Californians, The seeds abound in mucilage, which is imparted to cold water, and 



much 



Thurher. 



Salvia Texana. Salviastrum Texanum^ Scheele in Linnaea, 22, p. 585 ; Torr. & Gray^ Bot 



Pope's Rep. p. 169, t. 6. AVestern Texas and Ne\ 

 high and dry situations. (No. 466, Wright. No. 

 moved this plant to Salvia, from which it does not 

 any of Bentham's section, but is nearest Heterosph 

 calyx closed by hairs. 



Mexico 



Rio Grrande, mostly in 



landier.) We have re- 

 It hardly accords with 



d in DG 



XXXVIII.) 



In woods near Santa Barbara, California, March; Parry. Stem herbaceous 2-3 feet high. 

 Flowers bright crimson, large and highly ornamental. 



AuDiBEKTiA STACHYoiDES, Benth. I. c. Sandy hills, between San Diego and Monterey, March 

 May ; Parry, Thurher. A common shrub in California. 



AuDiBERTiA POLYSTACHYA, Benth. I. c. Abundant near San Diego, California, May ; Thurher. 

 Stem 3-4 feet high, slightly branched, bearing numerous spikes in a long terminal panicle. 



MoNAUDA ARISTATA, Nutt. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. n. ser. 5, p. 186; Benth. in DG. Prodr* 

 12, p. 363, Between San Antonio and the Eio Grande, Texas, and from the Presidio del Norte 



to Laredo, April — September. A low form, 



p. 182, was found by Dr, Bigelow at the C 



Wright. 



I I think is M. pectinata, N^ltt. PL Gamh. 

 Mines, New Mexico. It is also No. 1531^ 



MoNARDA PUNCTATA, Linn.; Benth. I. c. Sea shore near G-alveston, Texas, September ; Schott. 





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