388 LABIATE. Stachys. 



obtuse, cordate or roundish-truncate at base, crenate, sometimes buUate-rugulose, not 

 rarely villous-eanescent, especially beneath: spike naked, interrupted: teeth of the 

 calyx deltoid-subulate and aristttlate-acuminate, fully half the length of the campanulate 

 tube : corolla with the little or more manifestly exserted tube about 4 lines long, nearly 

 equalled by the widely spreading lower lip ; the short upper lip villous or pubescent on 

 the back. — Lab. 547, & DC. 1. c. 474 ; Gray, Bot. Calif, i. 606. .S. Californica, & S. Nuttallii, 

 var. 1 occidentalis, Benth. in DC. 1. c. 469. S. NuttaUii, var. leptostachya, Benth. PI. Hartw. 

 331. S. rigida, Nutt. ex Benth. in DC. 1. u. 472. S. coccinea, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. 156, 

 ex Benth. S. si/U-atica & S. agraria, Torr. in Wilkes's Exped. xvil. 408. — California to 

 Oregon, near the coast, and south-eastward to the Mohave. — A variable species : leaves 

 thinner and not rugose when growing in shade. 



•K- -H- ++ Flowers ample: tube of the ^ rose-red corolla over half inch long, fully twice the length 

 of the lower lip and of the cylindraceous-campanulate calyx : leaves mostly ample (3 to 5 inches 

 long), petioled, oblong-ovate and subcordate, crenate, veiny : stems 2 to 6 feet high, almost 

 always retrorsely hispid on the angles : verticillastrate clusters of the spike mostly 6-fiowered. 



S. Chamissonis, Benth. Leaves softly villous-eanescent beneath, sericeous-hirsute 

 above, oblong-ovate, rather obtuse, rugose-veiny ; petioles retrorsely hispid : short spike 

 mostly naked ; the floral leaves reduced to bracts and shorter than the flowers : calyx 

 densely hirsute-pubescent ; teeth deltoid, and cuspidate : tube of corolla commonly three- 

 fourths inch long; outside of the lijis (at least of the upper) hirsute-pubescent.' — Linn. vi. 

 80; & DC. 1. c. 468; Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. 155; Gray, Bot. Calif. 1. 606. — California, 

 in swamps along San I'rancisco and Bolinas Bay, &c. 

 — S. ciliata, Dougl. Green and glabrate, or sparsely pilose-pubescent : leaves thin, ovate, 

 mostly acute or acuminate : petioles and angles of the stem retrorsely hispid-ciliate : 

 lower floral leaves often similar to the cauline and much surpassing the flowers ; upper- 

 most reduced to small bracts, merely equalling the calyx, which is more tubular than in 

 the preceding, either nearly glabrous or pilose-pubescent, and the teeth narrower : corolla 

 rather smaller, nearly glabrous. — Benth. Lab. 539, & DC. 1. c. 467. — Oregon to Brit. 

 Columbia along the coast, in damp and shady places. 



Var. pubens. Soft-pilose-pubescent or villous-hirsute, especially the calyx and lower 

 face of the leaves: flowers commonly rather smaller or shorter. — S. Riederi, Cham. & 

 Benth. 1. c. 1 S. palustris, var., Torr. in Wilkes Exped. 1. c. — Washington Terr, to Eraser 

 River, &c. Connects S. ciliata with S. Chamissonis. 



-i— -J— -f— Corolla scarlet-red, with narrow cylindrical tube much exceeding the calyx and the lips : 

 flowers short-pedicelled or subsessile : cauline leaves slender-petioled : pubescence short and soft. 



S. coccinea, Jacq. Rather slender, a foot or two high: leaves ovate-lanceolate with 

 cordate base, or oblong-deltoid, obtuse, crenate (inch or two long) ; floral sessile; the upper 

 very small : spike interrupted : flowers genarally distinctly pedicelled : calyx in flower 

 cylindraceous, with tube twice the length of the slender-subulate teeth (in fruit more cam- 

 panulate), a third to nearly half the length of the (9 to 12 lines long) corolla. — Hort 

 Schoenb. ill. 18, t. 284 ; Bot. Mag. t. 666 ; Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 310 ; Benth. in DC. 1. c. 467. 

 S. cardinalis, Kunze in Bot. Zeit. ii. 645, ex Benth. — W. Texas to S. Arizona. (Mex.) 



S. Bigelovii, Gray. Minutely cinereous-pubescent, slender : foliage, &c., nearly of the 

 preceding: flowers fewer in the clusters, almost sessile : calyx (only 3 lines long) oblong- 

 campanulate ; its teeth broader: tube of the (red?) corolla only half inch long; lower 

 lip 3 lines long, much larger than the upper. — Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 371. — S. W. Texas, 

 in crevices of basaltic rocks, ]Vric/ht, Bigelow. 

 - BET6xio,i OFFICINALIS, L., or Stachys Betonioa, Benth., Wood Betony, of Europe, has 



been found in thickets near Boston, an escape from gardens. 



Order CV. PLANTAGINACEJi;. 



All anomalous order of Gamopetalas, chiefly acaulescent herbs with one-several- 

 ribhed or nerved radical leaves, simply spicate inflorescence, and regular 4-merous 

 flowers having a free ovary, a filiform and entire long-stigmatose style, amphi- 

 tropous and peltate ovules and seeds, a mostly straight embryo in firm-fleshy 

 albumen, the cotyledons little broader than the radicle, and the corolla scarious 



