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Collected June 22, 1903, near Del Monte, Monterey county, 

 along the road leading to Salinas, growing among grass and 

 shrubs. The species is remarkably tall, and differs from its 

 near relatives in having several series of bracts subtending the 

 flowers. 



'^ Moiiardella mollis 



About 3dm. high, decidedly shrubby and branching below, 

 the branches erect or ascending, the old lower portion covered 

 with a flaky greyish bark, the young upper part brown, pubes- 

 cent with soft spreading hairs: leaves conspicuously petioled 

 (2-3mm. long), broadly ovate, about 1.5cm. long, icm. wide? 

 slightly serrate, rather abruptly narrowed at base, acute or acut- 

 ish at apex, densely pubescent on both faces with tangled, ap- 

 pressed hairs, the margins ciliate; resinous dots few and small: 

 bracts in a single series, narrowly lanceolate, 7mm. long, less 

 than 3mm. wide at the base, the tips purplish, these, as well as 

 the calyx and tube of the corolla pubescent with spreading hairs: 

 corollas lavender, a litile over icm. long, twice the length of the 

 calyx. Plant scarcely aromatic. 



The type is No. 5725, collected June 19, 1902, in Marin 

 county on Tiburon peninsula along the road skirting the Bay. 



To this species is referred No. 5791, collected on the west 

 side of Knight's Valley, Sonoma county, on the road leading to 

 Mark West Springs. It is less hairy, especially on the calyx 

 and bracts, and has larger, darker flowers. 



„ Moiiardella coriacea 



Suffrutescent, 3-4dm. high, usually branched, smooth and 

 light brown below, puberulent and pale above, rather densely 

 leafy throughout: leaves shortly petiolate, coriaceous, the smal- 

 ler ones on the lower and upper parts of the stem and branches 

 elliptic, the larger ones ovate, 2-3cm. long, all acute, puberu- 

 lently roughened and prominently veined, conspicuously punc- 

 tate beneath, faintly so or not at all above, commonly with a 



