Stachys. LABIAT.E. 38" 



■)— ■*— Corolla purple or rose-red (not scarlet-red), -n-ith tube equalling or longer than the calyx : 

 flowers sesbile or bubsessile, 



■f-*- Not over half inch long: tube of the corolla not exceeding the tips of the calyx-teeth : spike 

 mostly much interrupted: stems erett from filiform and sometimes tuberiferous rootstocks. (At- 

 lantic species, one L-xteuding north-wesi ward to the Pacific.) 



= Leaves obscurely or not at all cordate, sessile or short petioled. 



"S. hyssopifolia, MicllX. Glabrous and smooth tliroughout, or sometimes a hirsute 

 ring at the nodes : stems slender, about a foot high : leaves linear, sonietiuies oblong-linear 

 (1 or 2 inches long, 1^ to 3 lines wide), entire or merely denticulate, even the lowest nar- 

 rowed at base and sessile : spike ratlier short and slender ; the clusters 2-6flowered : calyx 

 2 or lines long, occasionally with a few bristly long hairs ; teeth broadly subulate : 

 corolla glabrous. — Fl. ii. 4; Benth. 1. c. ; Gray, Mau. ed. 2, 317, ed. 5, ;>5b. S. palustris, 

 Walt. Car. 102, not L. — Wet and sandy soil, coast of JIass. to Michigan and Florida. 



Var. ambigua. Stouter, 1 or 2 feet high, sometimes with scattered retrorse bristles 

 on the angles of the stem : leaves broader, 3 to 6 lines wide, serrulate. — Georgia, LeConle. 

 Kentucky and Illinois, Short, Buckley, E. Hall, &e. 

 S. palustris, L. From densely soft-pubescent to rougliish-hirsute, leafy : stem 1 to 3 

 feet high, liirsute or hispid : leaves from ovate- to oblong-lanceolate, crenate-serrate, mostly 

 acute or acuminate (1+ to 3 inclics long), sessile or subsessile by a broad and abrupt or 

 obscurely subcordate base; the lowest little petioled; all sometimes almost velvety- 

 tomentose beneath : clusters of the spike mostly approximate, 6-10-flowered : calyx pubes- 

 cent or hirsute ; the teetli subulate, nearh" the length of the tube ; upper lip of corolla 

 distinctly pubescent. — Spec. ii. 5S0 ; Fl. Dan. t. 1103; Engl. Bot. t. 1075; Benth. 1. c. — 

 Wet ground, Newfoundland to the Pacific in Oregon, south to Pennsylvania, and in the 

 Rocky Mountain region to New Mexico, north to Mackenzie River. (Eu., N. Asia.) 

 S. aspera, Michx. 1- c. Taller, 2 to 4 feet high, usually less leafy, sparsely hirsute or 

 hispidulous-pubescent to nearly glabrous: stem mostly retrorse-liispid on the angles: 

 leaves thinner, from oblong-ovate to oblong-lanceolate (1^ to -ii inches long), acute or 

 acuminate, rather obtusely serrate, nearly all distinctly petioled and witli truncate or 

 merely subcordate base : calyx glabrous or glabrate, or with some scattered bristles : the 

 tube obscurely striate when dry: corolla glabrous throughout. — Benth. I.e. S.arvensis, 

 Walt. Car. 102, not L. 5. hispida, Pursh, Fl. ii. 407. .?. palustris, var. aspera. Gray, 1. c. 

 — Wet ground, Canada to Florida and W. Louisiana. Too nesiv S. palustris. (Japan.) 



=• Var. glabra. Even the angles of the stem smooth and naked or nearly so : leaves 

 more conspicuously petioled, acuminate, and serrate. — .S'. annua, Walt. Car. 161, not L. 

 ;?. tenuifolla, Willd. Spec. iii. 100. .S. qiahra, Riddell, Cat. Ohio PI. Suppl. (18:00), 16. .<. 

 aspera, var. glabraia, Benth. 1. c. .>. pnliistris, var. glabra. Gray, Man. 1. c. — W. New York 

 to Illinois and southward. Filiform stolon-like rootstocks more or less tuberiferous. 



= = ^fost of the leaves distinctly petioled; lower all long-petioled and cordate: corolla glabrous 

 or nearly so throuy:hout, barely 5 line-s long. 



- S. Floridana, Shuttlew. Barely a foot high, with filiform stolon-like rootstocks termi- 

 nated by a moniliform tuber (of 2 or 3 inches in length), nearly glabrous, or the slender 

 stem minutely liirsute, at least the angles : lower leaves cordate-oblong, very obtuse, cre- 

 iiate-dentate (three-fourths to 3 inches long), sleuder-petioled ; floral small and with cune- 

 ate subsessile base, hardly surpassing or shorter than the rather remote clusters of the 

 short spike: calyx-teeth aristulate-subulate, little shorter than the oblong-canipanulate 

 tube. — Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii. 478 ; Chapm. Fl. 327, but root not annual. —E. Florida, 

 Rugel, Buckley, Canhy, Palmer, Curtiss. 



S. COrdata, Riddell. Two or three feet high, rather weak, hirsute : leaves all ovate- or 

 oblong-cordate, acuminate, crenate (2 to 5 inches long), nearly all long-petioled; the floral 

 mostly minute : spikes slender, of numerous and small few-flowered clusters : calyx (only 

 2 lines long) with broadly subulate teeth much shorter than the campanulate tube. — Cat. 

 Oliio PI. Suppl. (1S:30), 15. ■■>. sylvatica, Nutt Gen. ii. 30, not h., but near it. .S. Xutlallii, 

 Shutthv. in DC. 1. c. 409. ■?. palustris, var. cord'ila, Gray, Man. 1. c. — Thickets. S. Ohio to 

 Virginia and Tennessee. — Not rarely leaves as broad at the base as in .?. sylvaticn. 

 ++ T-^- Flowers half inch long: tube of corolla somewhat exceedinir the calyx. (Pacific species.) 



S. bullata, Benth. -^^ foot or two high from a slender rootstock, hirsute-pubescent, 

 varying to villous or to somewhat hispid: leaves mostly petioled, ovate to oblong, usually 



