Dcceml)er 30, T907 319 



The type, in my herbarium, is no. H577, collected May 28, 

 1907, above Crystal Spring's, San Mateo county, California, on 

 the Half Moon Bay road, elevation 450 feet, in shade under oak 

 trees among an abundance of other plants. Very distinct from 

 C. californica^ with which it has been confused, by its very 

 much thinner, broader leaves, and comparatively .scanty pubes- 

 cence. 6". californica has a thick, narrower, more pointed leaf, 

 with dense short pubescence. 



Stachys Chamissonis Benth. Linnaea G: 80. 1831. 



No. 8563, collected May 23, about two miles beyond San 

 Mateo, San Mateo county, elevation 100 feet, on the Half Moon 

 Bay road, growing in rich and damp, partly shaded places along 

 the creek. It is a large plant with deep pink flowers. The de- 

 termination is somewhat doubtful, as the pubescence on the 

 angles of the stem is hardly made up of "rigid downcurved 

 prickle-like hairs," the leaves are ovate-lanceolate, acute, not 

 "ovate, obtuse," and the whorls are close, not "distant." It has 

 somewhat the appearance of S. californica. 



Stachys gracilenta 



Perennial from rootstocks: stems slender, strict, 2 to 4 dm. 

 high, purplish below, hispid, especially on the angles, with slen- 

 der spreading clear hairs: leaves oblong or elliptical, shorter 

 than the internodes, truncate or rounded at base, the largest en 

 the middle part of the stem, these 4 cm. long, some of them 

 nearly 2 cm. wide, all crenate, rather prominently veined, blunt 

 or the uppermost acutish, the lower sparingly the upper densely 

 pilose, the lower on petioles as long or longer than the blade, 

 the uppermost nearly or quite sessile; floral leaves similar in 

 shape, the lowermost longer than the flowers, the upper not ex- 

 ceeding the calyx, densely pilose: flowers in six to eight remote 

 whorls on the larger plants, pinkish, mottled and lined with 

 rose, calyx narrowly campanulate, in flower 5 mm. long, densely 

 villous, the lobes barely 2 mm. long, triangular, awn-tipped: 

 corollas 12 mm, long, pubescent externally, especially on the 



