594 LABIAT^E. MonardeUa. 



4. M. odoratissima, Benth. Pale and nearly glabrous, or canescently-tomen- 

 tulose, a span to a foot high. : leaves oblong-lanceolate, mostly entire (4 to 15 lines 

 long), and short-petioled ; the veins not prominent : bracts thin-membranaceous 

 and colored (whitish or pinkish), inclining to parallel-veined, ciliate or villous : 

 calyx-teeth short, triangular-lanceolate, hirsute without and within. 



Dry hills along the Sierra Nevada at 5,000 to 10,000 feet, and through the interior of Oregon 

 to Washington Territory. Plant with a strong scent of Pennyroyal : in California it is hardly if 

 at all pubescent, except the head. 



5. M. linoides, Gray. Minutely canescent, but the pubescence imperceptible : 

 stems more erect and rigid, a foot high, slender : leaves small (about half an inch 

 long), lanceolate, or the upper linear and sessile and the lowest oblong-spatulate, ob- 

 tuse, the veins very obscure : bracts nearly as in the preceding but barely cdiate : 

 calyx-teeth narrowly lanceolate, merely pubescent. — Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 101. 



Mountains east of San Diego, near the Oroflanime mine, Palmer. Redolent of Bergamot. 



% * Annual, less leafy : leaves entire or merely undulate. 



+- Corolla (from flesh-color to rose or purple) with tube slightly or moderately ex- 

 serted from the calyx : the lobes linear or elongated-oblong. 



++ Bracts pointless, parallel-veined or chiefly so : calyx-teeth rather broad and blunt. 



6. M. undulata, Benth. A span to a foot or more high : leaves from oblong- 

 spatulate to nearly linear with a narrowed base, obtuse, undulate-margined (com- 

 monly an inch long), tapering into a petiole, minutely pubescent or glabrous : bracts 

 and calyx villous ; the latter broadly ovate, mostly obtuse, thin-membranaceous or 

 scarious, destitute of cross- veinlets between the nerves : corolla rose-color. 



Not uncommon in the western part of the State, from near San Francisco to its southern bor- 

 ders. "Exhales a strong odor of Peppermint." 



7. M. lanceolata, Gray. A foot or so high, brachiately branched, green and 

 almost glabrous, or the stem puberulent : leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate (an 

 inch or two long), tapering below into slender petioles ; the upper acute ; all with 

 entire and even margins : bracts foliaceous or nearly so, ovate or oblong, mostly 

 acute, copiously reticulated between the ascending or parallel ribs or primary veins 

 by cross veinlets : calyx inconspicuously nerved ; the short teeth densely hirsute 

 within, sparsely if at all so without : corolla bright rose-color or purple, sometimes 

 spotted with darker dots. — Proc. Am. Acad. 1. c. 102. 



Dry ground, common along the foot-hills of the Sierra Nevada, from Plumas Co. to Tejon 

 and San Diego Co. It has been confounded both with M. undulata and M. candicans. Apparently 

 much handsomer than either. 



8. M. candicans, Benth. A foot or so in height, at length loosely branched, 

 canescently soft-pub erulent, at least above : leaves oblong or lanceolate (about an 

 inch long), commonly obtuse, rather abruptly contracted at the base into a slender 

 petiole, the margins even : bracts thin-membranaceous or almost scarious, ovate, 

 obtuse, reticulated by some cross-veinlets between the parallel ribs : calyx evidently 

 nerved ; the teeth very villous both within and without : corolla pale or white, the 

 tube not exserted. — PL Hartw. 330. 



Foot-hills on the Sacramento, Stanislaus, Cosumnes, &c. 



-H- ++ Bracts cuspidate, mostly scarious except the strong ribs : calyx-teeth subulate. 



9. M. Breweri, Gray. A span or more high, puberulent : leaves oblong or 

 ovate, abruptly petioled, pinnately veined (the larger an inch long) : bracts broadly 

 ovate, abruptly acuminate-cuspidate, whitish-scarious, the outer pinnately and the 

 inner nervosely 7 - 9-ribbed, most of the ribs converging into the point : corolla 

 rose-purple, the tube surpassing the calyx. — Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 386, 



Corral Hollow, Contra Costa Co., south of Monte Diablo, on a very dry sandy hill, Brewer. 

 The plant has the aspect of a small Monarda fistulosa. 



