224 BOTANY. 



softly pubescent, villous or hispid ; leaves pctioled, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse 

 or acute, crenate, cordate at base ; racemes elongated ; whorls 6-flowered, 

 all distant; corolla pubescent, nearly thrice longer than the calyx, the 

 tube much exserted. — Camp Grant, Arizona, at 4,753 feet elevation, and 

 Camp Bowie, at 5,300 feet elevation, August, 1874, Rothrock (386, 461, 

 483). Stems 1 to 2 feet high ; hairs clothing the leaves and stems soft and 

 short, or more rigid, especially on the angles of the stem, or almost wanting ; 

 leaves deeply or shortly crenate, larger ones sometimes 2 or even 3 inches 

 long ; whorls of flowers few, very distant or numerous in a short or long 

 raceme ; calyx sessile or pedicellate, with a tube 2 to 3 lines long, and short 

 or long teeth, which are either subspinescent, erect, or somewhat spreading, 

 or long subulate-acuminate ; corolla varying from barely 9 lines to more 

 than an inch in length. 



Stachys albens, Gray (Proc. Am. Acad. 7, p. 387).— Tall, 3 to 5 feet 

 high and rather strict, soft-tomentose throughout, with white or whitish 

 wool, leafy ; leaves oblong or ovate and mostly cordate, obtuse, crenate, 

 2 to 3 inches long, the lower short-petioled, the upper nearly sessile ; flowers 

 several or numerous in the capitate clusters, which mostly exceed the floral 

 leaves, and form an interrupted, at length elongated, virgate spike from 3 to 

 9 inches long ; calyx turbinate-campanulate, its teeth triangular and awn- 

 pointed ; corolla white, with purple dots on the lower lip, glabrous, except 

 the villous beard on the back of the upper lip. — Arizona, 1871, 1872, Wat- 

 son's Report. 



Stachys Rothrockii, Gray (Proc, Am. Acad. 12, p. 82). — A span 

 high, branching from the base, covered with a coat of villous wool ; root 

 apparently perennial ; leaves all sessile, lanceolate, more or less obtuse, 

 sub-entire, about 1 inch long, the upper floral ones not surpassing the flowers; 

 whorls usually 3-flowered, in a crowded spike ; calyx sessile, subcampanu- 

 late, teeth subovate, awnless ; corolla 4 to 5 lines long, tube scarcely longer 

 than the calyx ; upper lip villous on the outside. — Zuni Village, N. Mex., at 

 6,500 feet elevation, July, 1874, Rothrock (177). 



Stachys palustris, Linn. (Gray's Man. p. 358). — Trout Creek and 

 San Luis Valley, Colorado, 1873, Wolf (783, 785) ; Willow Spring, Arizona, 

 at 7,195 feet elevation, July, 1874, Rothrock (240). 



