STACHYS LABIATE 559 



wet places, southwertern Oregon. 



S. Palnstris L. Sp. 580. Hirsute or pubescent: rootatock slender, 

 perennial : stems erect, strict, simple or somewhat branched, commonly 

 slender and retrorse-hispid on the angles, 1-4 feet high : leaves lanceolate, 

 oblong or oblong-lanceolate, sessile or very short petiolert, acuminate or 

 acute at the apex, truncate to cordate at base, 1-5 inches long, crenate or 

 dentate: flower-clusters 6-10-flowered, approximate or interrupted : calyx 

 pubescent, its subulate teeth more than half as long as the tube: corolla 

 purplish to pale red, purple-spotted, 6-8 lines long, its upper lip pubescent. 

 In moist meadows, northern Oregon to New York and Newfoundland. 



S. bullata Benth. Lab. 547. Hirsute pubescent or somewhat hispid 

 to villous, or sometimes nearly glabrous above : stems usually slender, 1-3 

 feet high, from a slender perennial rootstock: leaves ovate to oblong, 

 obtuse or the upper ones acutish at the apex, rather coarsely crenate, 1-2 

 inches long, rounded or subcordate at base mostly petioled : spikes 2-6 

 inches long, interrupted : calyx campanulate, about 4 lines long, its deltoid- 

 subulate and aristulate-acuminate teeth fully half as long as the tube : 

 corolla 6-7 lines long, its tube about equalling the calyx.' and but little 

 longer than the lower lip. In rather dry soil, Oregon to California. 



S. Chamissonis Benth. Linn, vl, 80. Stems stout, 2-6 feet high, sim- 

 ple, or branched near the top, retrorsely hispid: leaves oblong-ovate, 

 mostly obtuse at the apex, 2-6 inches long, crenate serrate, sericeous- 

 hirsute above, softly villoue-canescent beneath, rugose-veiny, cordate at 

 base, all petioled : spikes mostly naked, at length elongated and interrupt- 

 ed ; the floral leaves reduced to bracts and shorter than the flowers : caljrx 

 cylindraceous, densely hirsute, about 5 lines long, its cuspidate deltoid 

 teeth about one-third as long as the tube : corolla rose-red or darker, about 

 10 lines long, the tube fully twice as long as the calyx, the upper lip hirsute. 

 In swamps, western Oregon to California. 



S. ciliataDougl. Benth. Lab. 539. Green and glabrate or sparingly 

 pubescent: stems stout, 2-6 feet high, simple, or branched above, sparingly 

 retrorsely-hispid on the acute angles: leaves thin, ovate to oblong, 2-6 

 inches long, crenate-toothed, subcordate, all petioled. dark green above, 

 paler beneath; petioles retrorsely hiepid-ciliate : spikes 2-8 inches long, 

 the whorls approximate or interrupted calyx sparsely hirsute, campanu- 

 late, 9,bout 4 lines long, its cuspidate deltoid teeth about a line long : corolla 

 rose red, about 10 lines long, the narrow tube twice as long as the calyx; 

 the upper lip minutely pubescent. In moist alluvial soil, Oregon to Brit. 

 Columbia. 



Var. pnbens Gray Syn. Fl. ii, 388. Soft pilose-pubescent or villous- 

 hirsute, especially the calyx and lower face of the leaves : flowers commonly 

 rather smaller or shorter. Washington to Brit. Columbia. 



S. Emersoni Piper Eryth. vi, 31. Sterne about 3 feet high, glabrous 

 or sparsely hispid on the faces, scabrous on the angles with retrorse rather 

 long and weak papillose-based hairs : rootstock perennial : leaves about six 

 pairs, ovate, cordate or subcordate at base, obtuse, coarsely crenate, sparse- 

 ly pilose-pubescent on both faces, 3-4 inches long by 2 inches broad, peti- 

 oled : flowers solitary or in twos, the lowest in the axils of the upper leaves, 

 the upper contracted into a leafy-bracted spike: bracts lanceolate, nearly 

 sessile, exceeding the flowers : calyx campanulate, its teeth deltoid-acumin- 

 ate, tipped with a white arista, hirsute-ciliate : corolla 6 lines long, purplish, 

 puberulent outside; lower lip spotted with white. Along river banks, 

 Hoquiam Washington. 



I refer here with doubt specimens that I collected along Trask river 

 Tillamook Co. Oregon. 



