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on slender pedicles in a corymb or short raceme; corolla rose-purple or purple, an incb 
or more long, or twice the length of the deeply parted calyx; anthers woolly. 
4. A. Californicum, Gr. Flowers crowded in an oblong thyrsus or raceme; calyx 
lobes nearly equaling the tube of the yellowish or purplish corolla; anthers smooth or 
nearly so. 
5. A. tuberosum, G. Flowers small, sessile in a compact cluster; yellowish. 
Boschniakia strobilacea, Gr., if found may be known by its resemblance to a spruce cone, 3 or 4 
inches long, the flowers striped with white and brownish red; scale-like bracts brown. 
‘Orpen 45, LABIATA. 
Chiefly aromatic herbs with square stems, opposite simple leaves, and no stipules, 
bilabiate corolla, didynamous or diandrous stamens, and a 4-lobed ovary with a single 
style, forming seed-like nutlets in the bottom of the persistent calyx —Flowers perfect, 
axillary. Calyx 3-5-toothed or cleft, or bilabiate. Stamens on the tubes of the corolla. 
Style, 2-cleft at the apex; often unequally so, or one of the lobes obsolete; stigmas 
minute. 
Tribe 1. SATUREIEZ. Stamens erect or ascending; the posterior pair shorter 
or wanting; anthers 2-celled, and the short lobes never far separated, sometimes partly 
confluent but not blended. Upper lip of the corolla never hooded; all the lobes flat or 
nearly so. é 
* The small corolla about equally 4-lobed; tube naked within. 
Stamens '4, nearly equal isisieigie: <ccieiwiatg-e-o sisswseca'sisvesiscpeicielsie\olcisiain gig-aieieieipisigie ..Mentha, 1 
Stamens 2, with anthers; posterior pair sterile or wanting ....... eresaletnseress Lycopus. 2 
* * Corolla bilabiate; no hairy ring within the base of the tube. 
+ Calyx about equally 5-toothed and 13-nerved; style beardless. 
Flowers glomerate-capitate. Stamens 4, straight. 
Stamens distant and divergent........ deen wolees se ccecccccevseseryCnanthemum 3 
Stainens Exserted ....ccassvneraarnonecanwmeleonmiere ivolmnereoweeseesMOnardela 4 
Flowers solitary or clustered in the axils, 
Stamens 4, curving, shorter than the corolla...... WeReckeeoieeteeeenes Micromeria, 5 
+ + Calyx unequally and deeply 5-cleft, mostly 15-nerved; style bearded above. 
Stamens 4, sometimes the upper pair sterile. ............ 0 cee eee cence Pogogyne. 6 
* * * Corolla not manifestly bilabiate; a hairy ring at the base of the tube within. 
Shrubby. Flowers large, campanulate......-.......-22eseeeee Seeaiemn Sphacele. 7 
Tribe 2. Moxarpez# Stamens only 2, fertile, the upper pair rudimentary or want- 
ing; anthers apnarently or really of a single linear-oblong cell, or of 2 cells widely sep- 
arated upon the ends of a filament-like connective. 
