358 LABIATE. Monardella. 



primary veins: calyx-teeth acutish, glabrate outside, densely hirsute within. — Proc. Am. 

 Acad. xi. 102, & Bot. Calif. 1. c. — California, common nearly through the State except on 

 mountains. 

 M. Undulata, Benth. 1. c. Cinereous-pubescent or glabrate : leaves spatulate-oblong to 

 oblanceolate or linear with tapering base, obtuse, undulate-margined : heads mostly villous 

 or pubescent : bracts broadly ovate, thin, whitish-scarious, obtuse, no cross-veinlets be- 

 tween the parallel nerves : calyx-teeth vyious, obtuse : " odor of peppermint." — Gray, 1. c. 

 — California, near the coast. 



-4 — H — H — Bracts obtuse or obtusely and slightly acuminate, broadly ovate, more or less white- 

 scarious, nervose, and with some cross-veinlets between the nerves: corolla white or nearly so, 

 small and short, not over 3 or & lines long: calyx -teeth villous and with white-scarious tips: 

 herbage cinereous or canescent. 



M. candicans, Benth. Soft-puberulent, cinereous, but hardly canescent : leaves lan- 

 ceolate or narrowly oblong, obtuse, tapering into a slender petiole : bracts minutely pubes- 

 cent outside, ovate, greenish along the numerous nerves, at least the tip and margins 

 white-scarious, shorter than the flowers : calyx-teeth short, rather broad and obtuse, villous 

 both sides. — PL Hartw. 330 ; Gray, 1. c. — California, valley of the Sacramento and foot- 

 hills of the neighboring Sierra Nevada. 



Var. exilis. Smaller : bracts mostly with a short scarious acumination : calyx-teeth 

 acute. — S. E. California or adjacent Arizona, Palmer. 



M. leucoc^phala, Gray. Low, much branched, cinereous-pubescent : leaves oblong or 

 broadly lanceolate, short-petioled : bracts ovate-orbicular with slight acumination, wholly 

 thin-scarious and bright white, lightly nervose and with very sparing cross-veinlets (about 

 4 lines long and broad): calyx hirsute; the teeth attenuate-subulate. — Proc. Am. Acad, 

 vii. 385, xi. 102, & Bot. Calif. 1. c. — California, on the plains near Merced, in sandy soil, 

 Brewer. 



15. ORfG-ANUM, Tourn. Wild Marjoram. (Ancient Greek name, 

 from OQog, a mountain, and ydvog, delight.) — Old World plants, one introduced. 



O. vulgAre, L. Branching erect perennial, villous : leaves ovate, petioled : short spiciform 

 branches of the cymes densely panicled, crowded with ovate and obtuse purplish-colored 

 bracts : corolla purple. — Roadsides, Atlantic States : fl. summer. ( Sparingly nat. from Eu. ) 



16. THYMUS, Tourn. Thyme. (Classical name, perhaps from dim, to 

 burn perfume, Thyme having been used for incense.) — Low and small-leaved 

 and small-flowered perennials, with persistent often somewhat woody base ; fl. 

 summer. Old World genus, one species introduced. 



T. Serpyllum, L. (Creeping Thyme.) Prostrate-tufted: leaves green, flat, ovate, entire, 

 veiny, more or less ciliate, short-petioled, 2 to 4 lines long, the floral ones similar : flowers 

 crowded at the end of the ascending branches, purplish. — Old fields, E. Massachusetts and 

 Pennsylvania. (Sparingly nat. from Eu.) 



17. SATUREIA, Tourn. Sayoey. (Ancient Latin name.) — Small- 

 leaved and low plants, sweet aromatic ; the genuine species all of the Old World ; 

 the single American one almost generically distinct. 



§ 1. Satureia proper. Bracts of the loose inflorescence small or none : calyx 

 mostly equalling the tube of the corolla : fl. summer. ' 



S. hortensis, L. (Summer Savory.) Annual, much branched, minutely pubescent: leaves 

 oblong-linear or lanceolate, tapering at base : flowers in axillary clusters, above becoming 

 interruptedly spicate : corolla short, pale purplish : stamens short. — Cult, as a sweet-herb ; 

 escaping from gardens is sparingly wild in Ohio, Illinois, Nevada, &c. (Nat. from Eu.) 



§ 2. Pycnothymus, Benth. Flower-clusters crowded in a terminal oblong 

 head or spike, conspicuously bracteate : bracts as long as the corolla : calyx very 

 small, thin, much shorter than the slender tube of the corolla: fl. spring. 



