236 BOTANY. 



what pubescent above, 6-15' high ; branches divaricately branched ; leaves 

 obovate or obovate-oblong, obtuse or retuse, entire, narrowed at base and 

 short-petioled, ^-W long; floral leaves scarcely larger than the bracts, 'sessile, 

 broadly ovate or nearly orbicular, ciliate, often purplish ; whorls densely 

 flowered, globose, distinct ; calyx pubescent, with the oblong obtuse lobes of 

 the lower lip shorter than the broadly rounded entire and very obtuse upper 

 one ; corolla pale blue, the tube straight, naked, and glabrous within, twice 

 longer than the calyx, and the lower hp nearly twice longer than the upper 

 one, with the middle lobe very broad, concave, emarginate and denticulate. 

 Oregon, (Douglas;) Western Nevada, (Beckwith, Anderson;) Providence 

 Mountains, Southern Cahfornia, (Cooper.) Washoe and West Humboldt 

 Mountains, and in Monitor Valley, Nevada ; 4,500-6,000 feet altitude ; May- 

 August. (829.) 



LoPHANTHUS UETic^FOLius, Benth. DC. Prodr. 12. 368. Grlabrous, 

 erect, 2-4° high ; leaves cordate-ovate, crenate or serrate, green upon both 

 sides, obtuse or the uppermost somewhat acute, the floral ones sessile, ovate 

 and acute ; bracts few, lanceolate-linear, shorter than the calyx ; spike dense, 

 oblong, 2-4' long ; calyx 2-6" long, incurved, glabrous or puberulent, the throat 

 oblique, the membranous teeth colored, long-subulate-acuminate, the upper 

 ones longest ; corolla purple, shortly exserted, the throat slightly inflated and 

 limb short; stamens much exserted. — Mountains of Oregon and California. 

 Very abundant in mountain canons in Nevada, and also in the Wahsatch and 

 Uintas; 6-8,000 feet altitude; July-September. — There is considerable varia- 

 tion in the length of the calyx and calyx teeth, and a close approach at times 

 to L. anisatus, but the leaves are uniformly broad-cordate at base and are rarely 

 whitish beneath. (830.) 



Nepeta Cataeia, L. Canons of the Wahsatch, near settlements ; doubt- 

 less introduced. (831.) 



Deacocephalum paevifloeum, Nutt. Along the Great Lakes and 

 through Central British America to Great Bear Lake and on the Youkon in 

 Alaska; on the Upper Missouri and southward to New Mexico and Northern 

 Arizona. In the Wahsatch ; 5-6,000 feet altitude ; May-July. (832.) 



Beunella vulgaris, L. Through the Eastern States to Newfoundland 

 and Canada, and westward on the Saskatchewan ; on the western coast from 

 Unalaska and Sitka to the Sacramento River. East Humboldt Mountains, 



