458 LABIAT^E. 



turbinate, the teeth triangular, cuspidate, in age spreading, somewhat 

 indurated; corolla-tube 4 lines long, exserted about 1 line, bearing 

 within at its middle an oblique ring of hairs interrupted on the upper 

 side opposite the style and indicated exteriorly by a distinct although 

 onlj' partial constriction; filaments densely pubescent at the middle. 

 The most common species, found everywhere among the low hills 

 of the Coast Ranges. Mar.-Apr. 



5. S. Californica Benth. Slender, 2 to 4 ft. high; leaves ovate- 

 oblong, ample, subcordate at base, sparsely villous-hispid; corolla- 

 tube exceeding the calyx, nearly twice as long; hairy ring at base of 

 tube horizontal. 



Santa Cruz Mountains, in shady woods. June. We are not 

 sure that this plant is identical with that of Bentham; our 

 specimens do not answer in every particular to Bentham's diagnosis 

 and the original description is not altogether satisfactory. 



6. S. Chamissonis Benth. Several ft. high, the angles -of the 

 stems retrorsely scabrous, the hairs pustulate; leaves soft-pubescent, 

 ovate, 3 or 4 in. long; calyx J in. long, clavate-tubular, much shorter 

 than the tube of the red corolla; hairy ring near base of corolla-tube. 



Near the coast: Sausalito, Kellogg; Bolinas Bay; Point Eeyes 

 Peninsula and northward; formerly at San Francisco, Bolnnder. 



LAMiu^r AMPLBXiCAULB L. Henbit. Low annual, decumbent at 

 base; internodes below the inflorescence very long; leaves rounded, 

 toothed or lobed, the lowest petiolate, the floral sessile; calyx with 5 

 nearly equal awn-pointed teeth, much surpassed by the elongated 

 corolla-tube; upper lip of corolla bearded, lower spotted. — Sonoma 

 Co., Bioletii, 1892. 



8. SALVIA L. Sage. 

 Herbaceous or low-shrubby plants with the flowers usually in 

 whorls, forming terminal racemes or spikes, the floral leaves mostly 

 reduced to bracts. Calyx bilabiate, the upper lip entire or 3-toothed, 

 the lower 2-cleft. Corolla with the upper lip erect, straight, concave 

 or falcate, sometimes obsolete; lower lip spreading, 3-lobed, the 

 middle lobe often emarginate, cleft or fringed. Stamens inserted in 

 the throat of the corolla; anterior pair fertile; the posterior pair 

 obsolete or represented by sterile fllaments or vestiges; anther-cells 

 widely separated on a long fllament-like connective longer than the 

 filament itself and jointed to it by the middle or near one end; con- 

 nective at its upper end (under the upper lip of the corolla) bearing a 

 perfect anther-cell, at its lower end a deformed anther-cell or the 

 anther-cell obsolete. In some species the filament is seemingly sim- 

 ple, but is really jointed, indicating the presence of the connective, 

 the lower end of which sometimes projects as a subulate point but 

 never bears a trace of an anther-cell. (From the Latin, salveo, to 

 save, some of the species being ofiicinal.) 



Lower end of connective bearing a deformed anther-cell or a rudiment; 

 flower-whorls fe^v ; annuals. 



