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color." The type was collected in Calaveras Valle^^^ Alameda 

 County," and the species has since been found as far "south as 

 San Luis Obispo county. 



Ramona grandiflora (Benth.) Briquet, Natuerpfl. 4: 

 Audibertia gi^andifiora Benth. Lab. 312. 1833, 

 Salvia spathace a Greene, Pittonia 3: 236,. 1892. . 

 No, 8459, collected April 25, on the western end of the San 

 Bruno hills, San Mateo county, elevation 700 feet, growing in 

 rocky or stony places with other abundant vegetation. Greene 

 did not include this and several other species in his genus >i??^- 

 mona^ and no doubt with good reason, but they probably do not 

 belong in Salvia. That gertus as at present received is an ag- 

 gregate, and some day will be split up into various genera, some 

 of them probably nionotypic. 



POGOGYNE SERPYixoipEvS (Torr.) Gray,. Proc. Am. 4cad. 7: 

 ,• 386. 1868.,; .^ 



Hedeoma 1 serpylloides Torr. Pac. R. R. Rep. 4: 123. 1857. 

 No- 8535,xollected May 10, at Smith Creek, Santa Clara 

 county, elevation 2150 feet, in grassy places near thickets. This 

 little plant has both the odor and appearance of Hedeoma^ and 

 it seems out of place in Pogogyne^ the true sptc'.es of which have 

 large showy flowers. The type was collected on "hill-sides, 

 Martinez," Contra Costa county. 



Stachys viarum 



Branched from the base, the branches at first decumbent,, 

 then ascending, 3 dm. long, dull green, quadrangular, retror.sely 

 scabrous on the angles with short white pustulate-based spines, 

 leafy throughout but the leaves scattered, coarsely crenate, firm 

 and .somewhat coriaceous, those below the inflorescence ovate, 

 the largest 6 cm. long, 4 cm wide at base, 1.5 cm. across the 

 rounded obtuse apex, all truncate or nearly so at base and peti- 

 oled, the petioles of the lower ones half as long as the blade, of 

 the upper ones about one-fourth as long, those subtending the 



