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MoNAEDBLLA^ ODOEATiSiSiMA, BeiitK. DC. Prodr. 12. 190. Stems 

 numerous, 6-10' high, ascending from a decumbent branched woody base ; 

 leaves subsessile, oblong-lanceolate, |.-I' long, acute at each end, very entire 

 or M'ith a few^ obscure denticulations, hoary or at length becoming green ; 

 outer bracts broadly ovate, very obtuse, colored, (purplish,) equahng the 

 elongated tubular calyces. — Heads of flowers f-1' in diameter ; lobes of the 

 rose-colored corolla oblong-linear, 3" long, often sprinkled as well as the rest 

 of the plant with resinous dots; calyx-teeth and margins of the bracts softly 

 villous. In the mountains from Washington Territory to Southern California. 

 East and West Humboldt Mountains, Nevada, and in the Wahsatch ; 8,000 

 feet altitude ; July-September. (826.) 



Satueeia hoetensis, L. Unionville Carton, West Humboldt Mountains, 

 Nevada ; doubtless escaped from gardens. The specimens show a 13-nerved 

 calyx, the 3 sinus-nerves of the lower lip being double. (827.) 



Salvia Columbaei^, Benth. DC. Prodr. 12. 349. Annual, herbace- 

 ous, erect, 4-18' high, but little branched ; leaves deeply pinnatifid, rugose, 

 hoary-pubescent or rather glabrous, the lobes oblong-linear, obtuse, erose or 

 incisely dentate, the upper lobe scarcely broader ; floral leaves bractlike ; 

 whorls solitary or in pairs, remote from the leaves, densely many-flowered 

 and hemispherical, 6-12" in diameter ; the bracts broadly ovate, membra- 

 nous, acuminate and imbricate ; upper lip of the ovate pubescent calyx elon- 

 gated and concave, the lower one shorter ; corolla-tube included, the middle 

 lobe of the lower lip crenulate. — Bracts and calyx usually more or less purple 

 Southern California and Western Arizona. Found only in Truckee Pass, 

 Nevada; 4,000 feet altitude ; May and November. (828.) 



AuDiBEETiA INCANA, Benth. DC. Prodr. 12. 359. Canescent or some- 



1 MONAEDELLA, Benth. Calyx tubular, often elongated, lO-lS-nerved, 5-tootlied ; teeth short, 

 nearly equal, straight, throat naked within. — Corolla-tuhe equaling the calyx or slightly exserted, the 

 throat glabrous within ; somewhat bilabiate, the upper lip 2-oleft, the lower 3-oleft, and the lobes all 

 oblong or linear, flat and nearly equal. Stamens 4, somewhat equal or the lower ones longer, straight, 

 divfergent and exserted. Anthers with two parallel cells, becoming divergent or divaricate. Styles very 

 shortly 2-oleft. Nutlets dry. — Annual or perennial, herbaceous or suffrutesoent. Verticils large, sub- 

 globose, solitary and terminal, surrounded by broad bracts. With nearly the habit and calyces of 

 Monarda and corolla of Fyenanihemum. Bbnth., in DC. Frodr. 



' AUDIBEETIA, Benth. Calyx ovate, bilabiate, the upper lip concave, entire or shortly 3-toothcd, 

 the lower 2-clefl, the throat naked. Corolla-tube equaling the calyx or exserted, bilabiate, the upper lip 

 with two spreading lobes, the lower 3-cleft, the lateral lobes ovate or oblong, spreading, the middle one 

 very broad and emarginate. The fertile stamens ascending and usually exserted, the rudiments of the 

 lower ones small and clavate or none. Anthers dimidiate, with au ascending linear connective, jointed 

 to the filament, bearing upon its summit the linear 1-celled anther, and not produced at base or very 

 shortly acuminate. — Shrubby, villous, or more frequently hoary-tomentose ; the whorls usually densely 

 many-flowered, with bract-like floral leaves, Benth., in DC. Frodr. 



