MonardeUu. LABIAT-E. 593 



Dry and open ground : common nearly throughout the State to the southern boundary and the 

 frontiers of Nevada. The var. glabellum is a green and glabrate state, hardly needing a distinc- 

 tive name. 



5. MONARDELLA, Benth. 



Calyx tubular, narrow or elongated, 10 — 13-nerved, 5-tootlied ; the teeth short, 

 straight, and nearly equal; the throat naked within. Corolla with the tube either 

 slightly or manifestly longer than the calyx, glabrous within; the 2-cleft upper lip 

 and the lobes of the 3-parted lower one all flat and linear or oblong. Stamens 

 4, exserted, either strongly or moderately unequal : anther-cells often divergent or 

 divaricate. — Annual or perennial sweet-odorous herbs (all Californian, one or two 

 extending to Oregon) ; with the aspect, inflorescence and calyx of Monarda, and the 

 corolla rather of Pycnanthemum, but mostly on a larger scale : the flowers compacted 

 in terminal heads involuerate with bracts, rose-color, purple, or white. Leaves 

 entire or obscurely toothed. — Lab. 331, & DC. Prodr. xii. 190. 



§ 1. Flowers coni/ini-iitir, hg /, u< and loose in the head, large: corolla mostly teitk lonrj- 

 • w rted lube: anther-cells oval-oblong, divaricate. 



1. M. macrantha, < Iray. Perennial, tufted, a span high from creeping rather 

 woody rootstocks, puberulent or pubescent: leaves thickish, ovate, obtuse (6 to L0 

 lines long), glabrate, slender-petioled : bracts of the 10 — 20-flowered head ovate or 

 oolong, obtuse, thin-menibranaceous or somewhat scarious, sometimes whitish or 

 purplish-tinged, externally like the calyx villous-piibescent : teeth of the latter lan- 

 ceolate, merely acute: corolla about an inch and a half long, glabrous, orange-red ; 

 its tube fully twice the length of the palvx ; the lobes lanceolate. — Proc. Am. 

 Acad. xi. 100. 



Cuiamaca Mountains and near Julian City, northeast of San Diego, Cleveland, Palmer. Calyx 

 three fourths "r in fruit even a full inch long. Corolla often nearly 2 inches long, apparently 

 bright orange-colored with the limb scarlet, the tube gradually enlarging upward. 



2. M. nana, Cray. 1. c. Resembles the preceding, with somewhat hirsute pu- 



ilowers smaller: corolla not twice the length of the calyx, white or 

 1 with rose-color; the slender tube pubescent : bracts whitish and rose-color. 

 Mountains behind San Di 'and. Specimens hardly sufficient Calyx barely two 



thirds of an inch long : tube of the pale corolla sometimes hardly exceeding its lanceolate teeth, 

 Bometimes - Lines longer. 



§ l'. Flow rs numerous and densely capitate: calyx /rum <i fourth t<> a third of an 

 inch long : anther-cells shorter and less divan 



* Perennial, in tufts from a procumbent and almost woody base, or from somewhat 

 creeping slender rootstocks: corolla from flesh-color to purple, ///< tub) little if at all 

 'ling ill, calyx. 



3. M. villosa, Benth. Sofl pubescent or villous, a foot or two high: le 

 ovate, often with a few obtuse teeth, veiny (6 to 10 lines long), petioled : bracts 

 ovate, foliaceous, pinnately veined. — Lab. 332, & Bot. Sulph. 12, t. 21. — Varying 

 greai 1> . es] i tllj in 1 lie pubescence. 



Var. leptosiphon, Ton-.: a less pubescenl form, with thinner and almost entire 

 leaves, on slender petioles, and slender more exserted tube to the corolla.— Bol 

 Mi ix, B mnd. 129. 



Var. glabella, day: a form with nearly oblong 1 netinies almost sea 



sile, varying from 5 to 18 lines in length ; the pubescence very close and minute. — 

 Proc Am. Acad. vii. 386. if. Sheltoni, Torr. in Durand, PL Pratten. 



D and mostly wooded grounds, eon n through the State; the more villous form, which 



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