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berulent or short pubescent throughout: leaves oblong-lanceo- 

 late, acute, or some of the lower oval and obtuse, about 2.5cm. 

 long, including the slender petiole of 3-4mm., rather pale on 

 both sides, but glabrous or nearly so above, beneath short pubes- 

 cent and covered with small resinous dots, the pale midvein 

 very prominent, the margins obscurely ciliate, entire, somewhat 

 revolute: upper internodes remote, twice the length of the leaves, 

 the lower equalled by the leaves: heads medium sized, less than 

 2cm.: involucral pair of leaves about half the width of the 

 others; bracts broadly ovate, a little less than icm, long, about 

 6mm. wide, obtuse or barely pointed, pinkish, prominently fen- 

 estrate veined, short pubescent outside, ciliate, more or less 

 marked with dark resinous dots, as is the tube of the calyx: 

 calyx pubescent throughout with somewhat spreading hairs: 

 corollas rose-purple, their pubescent tubes little exserted beyond 

 the calyx. The plant has a pleasant aromatic odor. 



No. 5909, collected July 19, 1902, on the southern slope of 

 Mt. Sanhedrin, Lake county, above the sawmill, in dry gravelley 

 ground among pine trees. It was distributed as Monardella 

 odorattssima Benth,, a species which probably does not occur 

 in California, 



