Salvia. LABIATiE. 367 



S. Columbariae, Benth. Soft-puberulent : stems slender, branching and leafy below, 

 6 to 20 inches high, naked and pedunculiform above, terminated by solitary or two pro- 

 liferous heads : leaves deeply 1-2-pinnatifid or pinnately parted into oblong crenately 

 toothed or incised obtuse divisions, muticous, rugose : involucrate floral leaves or bracts 

 not exceeding tlie head, broadlv ovate, entire, resembling the more membranaceous some- 

 times purplish abruptly acuminate-aristate inner bracts : flowers small : calyx naked with- 

 in ; its large upper lip arcuate-concave, hispid at base outside, tipped with a pair of con- 

 nivent and partly connate short aristiforra teetli (the third or middle tooth apparently 

 always wanting), very mucli surpassing the two small at lengtli porrect teeth of tlie 

 lower lip: corolla blue, hardly exceeding the calyx; its upper lip emarginate-2-lobed at 

 apex, the lower with small lateral lobes and a much larger transversely oval short- 

 unguiculate somewhat 2-lobed but otherwise entire or merely crenulate middle one : fila- 

 ments slender. — Common througli California, and in adjacent Arizona and Nevada. 



§ 3. HETEROSPH.iCE, Benth. Throat of the calyx naked (or in a single species 

 ciliate-hirsute) ; the upper lip broadly truncate and remotely 3-toothed ; the lower 

 2-cleft: corolla elongated, mostly pilose-annulate inside; upper lip emargiuate or 

 entire : stamens separate : connective shorter than the slender often exserted fila- 

 ment ; the porrected lower fork also bearing a polliniferous anther-cell : herbs, 

 ours Atlantic- American perennials, with mostly lyrately-lobed or toothed or pin- 

 nately divided leaves ; inflorescence loosely racemose, the small bract-like floral 

 leaves persistent. 



* Covolla blue or violet, thrice the length of the calyx: leaves at most pinnatifid ; the cauline, 

 if any, sessile or narrowed at base into wing-margined petioles. 



S. lyrata, L. Perennial from a somewhat tuberous root, pilose or hirsute : stem com- 

 monly scapif orm, a foot or more high : radical leaves obovate, sinuate- or repand-dentate, or 

 lyrate-pinnatifid ; cauline of one or two somewhat similar pairs, or none ; floral oblong or 

 lanceolate and mostly shorter than the calyx : raceme of few or several at length dis- 

 tant about 6-flowered loose clusters, rarely branching ; calvx campanulate, membranaceous ; 

 tlie broad and truncate upper lip witli short or very short widely separated aristulate 

 teeth; lower witli 2 longer lanceolate cuspidate-pointed teetli: corolla (almost an inch 

 long) ampliate-funnelform beyond the calyx ; its erect upper lip much shorter and smaller 

 than the lower. — Spec. i. 23 (Bill. Elth. t. 17-5; Moris. Hist. &c.); Michx. Fl. i. 14. 

 <S. Ii/rata & S. obomla, Ell. Sk. i. 33; Benth. in DC. 1. c. 353; the latter merely a form with 

 thin and barely dentate leaves; calyx-teeth variable in lengtli. — Sandy woodlands. New 

 Jersey to Illinois, Florida, and Texas ; flowering early. 



* * Corn! la scarlet-red, four times the length of the calyx; herbage softly and often canescently 

 pubescent : cauline leaves all slender-petioled, at least the lower ones 3-5-tbliolate. 



S. Roemeriana, Soheele. Stems (afoot or two high) and petioles below often sparsely 

 hirsute with long spreading hairs ; leaves or terminal leaflet roundish or reniform-cordate, 

 coarsely repand-tootlied or crenately incised (an inch or two broad), membranaceous ; the 

 lower usually with 2 or 3 similar but smaller (subsessile or slender-petiolulate) lateral 

 leaflets, these occasionally reduced to dentiform appendages on the petiole : raceme loose 

 and elongated : floral leaves mostly shorter than the pedicels : calyx somewhat pubescent, 

 naked within ; its upper lip 3-aristulate or with the middle tooth obsolete ; the 2-parted 

 lower one of triangular-lanceolate cuspidate-acuminate teeth ; corolla (an inch or more 

 long) deep scarlet, puberulent, narrowly tubular-funnelform, somewhat arcuate ; its 

 spreading lower lip with rounded and obeordate-2-cleft middle lobe, hardly longer than the 

 erect strongly emarginate upper lip ; lobes of the style more or less unequal. — Seheele in 

 Linn. xxii. SSG ; Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 1.32. .S'. porphyrantha (or porphyrala), Decaisne in 

 Kev. Hort. lS-51, t. 16; Fl, Serres, t. lOSO ; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4930. — In light fertile soil, 

 W. Texas, Wriijlil, Lindheimer, &£. (Adjacent Jlex.) 



S. Henryi, Gray. More slender, less soft-pubescent : leaves or mostly leaflets smaller, 

 seldom cordate, angulate-lobed ; lower floral ones often similar, all as long as the pedicels : 

 caly.x liirsute, ciliate-bearded or villous in the sinuses and throat : corolla apparently nar- 

 rower and with shorter less notched lips ; the bearded ring at base within obsolete. — Proc. 

 Am. Acad. viii. 368. .S. Roemeriana, Torr. 1. c, in part. — New Mexico, on the Mimbres, 



