Stachys. LABIATE. 605 



perennials, branched from the base: leaves rugose : flowers small, much crowded in 

 axillary false win iris or heads. — An Old World genus, a single species naturalized 

 in the New, used in popular medicine. 



1. M. vulgare, Linn. A foot or two high, hoary-woolly: leaves roundish, 

 crenate : flowers crowded in the upper axils : corolla small, white : calyx-teeth and 

 bracts hooked at the tip. 



Waste and dry grounds near the coast : naturalized from Europe. 



17. STACHYS, Linn. Hedge-Settle. 



Calyx tubular-campanulate or turbinate, 5- 10-nerved, nearly equally 5-toothed ; 

 the teeth sometimes rigid or spiny-pointed. Corolla with cylindrical tube, not 

 dilated at the throat ; the upper lip erect and concave or arched, entire or merely 

 emarginate; the lower spreading and 3-lobed, its middle lobe larger. Stamens 4, 

 ascending under the upper lip : filaments naked : anthers approximate in pairs, 

 2-celled ; the cells either parallel or divergent. Nutlets obtuse, not truncate. — 

 II rbs (or a few undershrubs), not aromatic; with flowers clustered, capitate, or 

 scattered, often spicate or racemose at the summit of the stem or branches : ours all 

 perennials, and the flowers sessile or nearly so. 



* Tube of the corolla little if at 'ill longer t/uin the calyx. 



+- Corolla white or whitish ; the upper lip bearded or woolly on the back : herbage 



lomentose or sofi-liairy. 



1. S. ajugoides, Benth. A span to a foot high, villous or silky-hirsute with 

 whitish hairs: leaves oblong, very obtuse, crenately toothed (1 to 3 inches long), 

 the base either obtuse or tapering into the petiole; the upper sessile : flowers about 

 3 in the axils of the distant upper ordinary leaves, and loosely leafy-spicato at the 

 summit, mostly surpassed by the floral leaves: calyx short-campanulate, very hairy; 

 its teeth ovate and merely tnuci-onate-aeuininate. — Prodr. xii. 474. 



Moist grounds, common from Monterey 1" Lake ('o. 



2. S. albens, Gray. Tall (3 to 5 feet high) and rather strict, soft-tomontose 

 throughout with white or whitish wool, leafy: leaves oblong or ovate and mostly 

 cordate, obtuse, crenate (2 or 3 inches long), the lower short-potioled. the upper 

 nearly sessile : flowers several or numerous in the capitate clusters, which mostly 

 exceed the floral leaves and form an interrupted at length elongated virgate spike 

 (from 3 to 1) inches long): calyx turbinate-campanulate, its teeth triangular and 

 awn-pointed: corolla white with purple dots on the lower lip, glabrous except the 

 villous beard on the back of the upper lip. — Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 387. 



Moist and rich soil, on the mountains and foot-hills of the Siena Nevada, from Fort Tojon to 



Santa I l.ua anil 'I'm illlliille Co. 



3. S. pyenantha, Benth. Two feet high or more, very hirsute or villous with 



long ami stly soli spreading hairs, not white : leaves oblong ovate and somewhat 



cordate, obtuse, crenate (2 to 4 inches long), all but the floral ones rather long 

 petioled : flowers in a dense cylindraceous naked spike (an inch or two long), ex- 

 ceeding the small bract like Moral leaves except in the lowest and sometimes rather 

 distant clu ters : calyx-teeth triangular and slightly mucronate : corolla apparently 

 white or cream color with purple on the lower lip, the upper lip stronglj bi 



in i be back. — PI. Hartw. 33 I. 

 Monti-ivy Co. (Harlweg) to m u San Francisco, Kellogg. 



j_ 4- Corolla purjilc, tin upprr lip more or less hairy on tin back: pubescence hirsute 

 or hispid, at least on Hu stem ; no tomentutn. 



