372 LABIATJ3. Salvia. 



S. SclArea, L. (Clakt.) Biennial, villous-pubescent, viscid: stem stout, 2 or 3 feet liigh : 

 leaves ample, long-petioled, ovate and cordate, creiiate, rugose ; floral forming bracts of 

 the cylindrical, or interrupted spike, ovate, acuminate, tinged with white and rose-color : 

 calyx campanulate; teeth spinulose-acuminate : corolla white and bluish, rather large, 

 widely ringent ; its short tube included; long upper lip falcate and compressed. — Penn- 

 sylvania, escaped from gardens. (Nat. from Eu.) 

 • S. VERBENACEA, L., Muhl. Perennial, pubescent or villous, a foot or two high : leaves ovate 

 or oblong, often cordate at base, obtuse, mostly sinuate-incised or moderately pinnatifid 

 and the lobes crenate-toothed, rugose, almost glabrous ; the few cauline mostly sessile ; 

 the floral inconspicuous, rounded-ovate : raceme interrupted : calyx reflexed after flower- 

 ing ; its broad and rounded upper lip recurved-spreading, with 3 minute connivent teeth ; 

 the lower of 2 longer triangular-subulate and cuspidate teeth, equalling the throat of the 

 small bluish corolla, the upper lip of which is nearly straight. — S. Claytonl, Ell., excl. 

 reference to Clayton, whose plant is S. lijrata? — Dry sandy pastures around Beaufort, 

 S. Carolina, Elliott. Sparingly seen in the Middle States. (Nat, from Eu.) 



29. AUDIBfiRTIA, Benth. {M. Audihert of Tarascon, Provence.) — 

 "VV. North American (all Californian, one species of wider range), fruticose or 

 perennial-herbaceous, mostly canescent-tomentose ; with crenate or crenulate and 

 reticulated leaves, and flowers resembling those of Salvia of the S. officinalis 

 type : fl. spring and summer. (Noted bee-plants in S. California.) 



§ 1. Inflorescence densely verticillastrate-glomerate and interrupted-spicate, 



much bracteate : corolla with tube longer than the limb. 



# Large-flowered: corolla fully inch and a half long, crimson-purple; upper lip rather erect and 

 short, emarginate : lower leaves cordate or hastate at base. 



A. grandiflora, Benth. Stem villous and glandular, stout, suffrutescent, 2 or 3 feet 

 high : leaves very rugose, tomentose beneath, sinuate-crenate ; lower mostly hastate-lan- 

 ceolate, obtuse, 3 to 8 inches long, on margined petioles ; upper oblong and sessile ; floral 

 and bracts of the large heads broadly ovate, membranaceous: calyx spathaceous, deeply 

 cleft between the two small anterior cuspidate-tipped teeth ; ample concave upper lip 

 .j-denticulate : stamens much exserted : a conspicuous slender tooth representing the lower 

 fork of the connective. — Lab. 312, & DC. Prodr. xii. 359; Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound, t. 38 

 (sterile filaments wrongly represented) ; Gray, Bot. Calif, i. 600. — California Coast Ranges, 

 &c., from San Mateo Co. southward. 



* * Smaller-flowered: corolla less than an inch long, violet or bluish: leaves not cordate. 



-*^ Bracts, upper floral leaves, and bilabiate calyx scarious-membranaceous, reticulated, usually 

 colored, obtuse and muticous (or at most mucronate); thefonner large and roundish, half inch or 

 more long, imbricating the close hearts : corolla only half inch long, narrow, and with short limb: 

 low Huffruticose species of the interior arid region. 



"A., incana, Benth. 1. c. Closely tomentose-canescent, leafy : leaves spatulate or obovate, 

 obtuse or refuse, not rugose, entire (or sparsely crenulate), seldom inch long ; bracts 

 obovate or oval, pubescent and ciliate, purple-tinged : calyx turbinate ; anterior teeth 

 ovate or oblong, rather shorter than the truncate and emarginate very broad upper lip : 

 stamens much exserted: connective with or without a dentiform appendage. — Lindl. Bot. 

 Reg. t. 1409; Gray, 1. c. — From interior of Washington Terr, and Idaho south to Arizona, 

 and alone tj)^easj,ern bordgrsof California. 

 A. ^^^J^^ta, Grrajf j/Cmepeous-puberulent : leaves oblong, acutish, very rugose, crenu- 

 late, slender-petioled ; bracts of solitary head ovate or oval, apparently whitish: flowers, 

 Sec, of the preceding. — Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 387, & Bot. Calif. 1. c. — Providence Moun- 

 tains, San Bernardino Co., S. E. California, Cooper. 



-I— ^— Bracts more or less herbaceous, at least not colored: leaves minutely rugose, crenulate: 

 species restricted to California. 



+-I- Corolla barely half inch long : all the calyx-teeth and bracts subulate or aristate-tipped. 



- A. humilis, Benth. 1. c. Stems simple and only a span high from a thickened suffruti- 



eose base, almost leafless and scapiform : leaves crowded at the base, lanceolate or spatu- 



late-oblong, very obtuse, finely rugose, densely crenulate, canescent, an inch or more long, 



