Micromeria. LABIATJ2. 595 



10. M. Douglasii, Benth. A span to a foot or more high, loosely branched, 

 puberulent and above hirsute : leaves lanceolate (about an inch long), tapering into 

 the petiole, the veins inconspicuous and ascending: bracts ovate and ovate-lan- 

 ceolate, gradually acuminate to a cuspidate point, wholly or mainly trausparent- 

 scarious (silvery white or tinged purplish), except the strong midrib and divergent 

 pinnate veins which all run into a marginal false vein of equal strength, forming a 

 rigid framework: corolla deep rose-color, the tube little exserted beyond the sharp- 

 pointed calyx-teeth. — Lab. 332, & DC. Prodr. 1. c. M. candicans, var. venosa, 

 Torr. Pacif. R. Pep. iv. 123. 



Hills and plains, around San Francisco Bay and north to Yuba Co. Plant strong-scented. The 

 very thin and transparent veinless substance of the bracts set as in frames formed of the ribs and 

 simple veins. 



+■ +■ Corolla (white ?) small, with wlwlly included tube and short ovate-oblong lobes. 



11. M. leucocephala, < iray. A span or two high, minutely cinereous-pubes- 

 cent : leaves oblong or lanceolate, entire, short-petioled : bracts orbicular-ovate, 

 pointless, thin-scarious, bright white, 7 — 9-nerved, and with a few indistinct vein- 

 lets : calyx hirsute, finely aud closely nerved ; the teeth subulate and whitish. — 

 Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 385. 



riains near Merced, Brewer. Bracts 4 or 5 lines long, the veins minutely hispid underneath. 

 Calyx 2h lines long. Corolla probably more conspicuous in other specimens. The species is i 

 very peculiar one. 



6. MICROMERIA, Benth. 



Calyx oblong or tubular, about 13-striate, terete, not gibbous nor declined, about 



equally 5-toothed. Corolla short, naked within, distinctly bilabiate : upper lip erect. 



flattish, entire or emarginate ; lower spreading, 3-parted. Stamens 4 : filaments 



arcuate-ascending; the anterior pair longer: anthers 2-celled. Style glabrous. — 



Low plants, sweet-odorous, various in habit, with small flowers in the axils of the 



leaves. 



mis of numerous Old World and several South American sperms, one of which (of the 

 peculiar section, Hespekotbymus) reaches the Southern Atlantic States, and has a rel 



ell ill.- Pai I 



1. M. Douglasii, Benth. Perennial herb, slightly pubescent, with long and 

 slender creeping and trailing stems : [eaves round-ovate, thin, sparingly toothed (an 

 inch or less in diameter) short-petioled: (lowers mostly solitary in the axils, on a 

 lon_' and filiform 2-bracteolate peduncle: calyx-teeth subulate: corolla purplish, I 

 lines long, twice the ] ngth of the calyx, the' tube exserted. — Lab. 372. Thymus 

 Douglasii & Chamissonis, Benth. in Limuea, vi. 82, Micromeria barbata, Fischer 

 ifc Meyer, I nd. Sem. Petrop. viii. 67. 



W Is of the I east Ranges, mostly in a m ly soil, from Santa Barbara Co. northward to Wash- 

 ington Territory, a. sweet-scented herb, the well-known )'■ 



2. M. purpurea, < fray. Erect and much branched, a foot or two high, rather 

 finely and loosely pubescent : leaves short-petioled, lai olate, acuminate, sparsely 



ite with sharp appressed teeth, (an inch long): flowers numerous in umbel-like 



sessil - short peduncled fascicles in the axils of the leaves : calyx oblonp campanu- 



late, about the Length of the pedicels, naked in the throat ; the slender-subulate teeth 



one third the length of the tube : corolla " purple bin,." 2 lines long, little ex< d 



ing the calyx. — ffedeoma purpurea, Kellogg in Proc. Calif. Acad. v. 52. 



Webb's Landing, on an island in tin- San Joaquin River, Kellogg. Plant with "the 

 odor and carminative pi iportii of the common Pennyroyal." Not otherwise mel with, ami 

 )i her obscure. It is in no respect a Hedeoma: in onoxponded flower-buds all four filaments 

 bear fertile and similar ant I) 



