Salvia. LABIATE. 367 



S. ColumbariaB, Benth. Soft-puberulent : stems slender, branching and leafy below, 

 6 to 20 inches high, naked and pedunculiform above, terminated by solitary or two pro- 

 liferous heads: leaves deeply 1-2-pinnatifid or pinnately parted into oblong crenately 

 toothed or incised obtuse divisions, muticous, rugose : involucrate floral leaves or bracts 

 not exceeding the head, broadly ovate, entire, resembling the more membranaceous some- 

 times purplish abruptly acuminate-aristate inner bracts : flowers small : calyx naked with- 

 in ; its large upper lip arcuate-concave, hispid at base outside, tipped with a pair of con- 

 nivent and partly connate short aristiform teeth (the third or middle tooth apparently 

 always wanting), very much surpassing the two small at length porrect teeth of the 

 lower lip : corolla blue, hardly exceeding the calyx ; its upper lip emarginate-2-lobed at 

 apex, the lower with small lateral lobes and a much larger transversely oval short- 

 unguiculate somewhat 2-lobed but otherwise entire or merely crenulate middle one : fila- 

 ments slender. — Common through California, and in adjacent Arizona and Nevada. 



§ 3. Heterosphace, Benth. Throat of the calyx naked (or in a single species 

 ciliate-hirsute) ; the upper lip broadly truncate and remotely 3-toothed ; the lower 

 2-cleft : corolla elongated, mostly pilose-annulate inside ; upper lip emargiuate or 

 entire : stamens separate : connective shorter than the slender often exserted fila- 

 ment ; the porrected lower fork also bearing a polliniferous anther-cell : herbs, 

 ours Atlantic- American perennials, with mostly lyrately-lobed or toothed or pin- 

 nately divided leaves ; inflorescence loosely racemose, the small bract-like floral 

 leaves persistent. 



# Corolla blue or violet, thrice the length of the calyx: leaves at most pinnatifid ; the cauline, 

 if any, sessile or narrowed at base into wing-margined petioles. 



S. lyrata, L. Perennial from a somewhat tuberous root, pilose or hirsute : stem com- 

 monly scapiform, a foot or more high : radical leaves obovate, sinuate- or rcpand-dentate, or 

 Iyrate-pinnatifid ; cauline of one or two somewhat similar pairs, or none ; floral oblong or 

 lanceolate and mostly shorter than the calyx : raceme of few or several at length dis- 

 tant about 6-flowered loose clusters, rarely brandling : calyx campanulatc, membranaceous ; 

 the broad and truncate upper lip with short or very short widely separated aristulate 

 teeth; lower with 2 longer lanceolate cuspidate-pointed teeth: corolla (almost an inch 

 long) ampliate-funnelform beyond the calyx ; its erect upper lip mucli shorter and smaller 

 than the lower. — Spec. i. 23 (Dill. Elth. t. 175; Moris. Hist. &c.) ; Michx. Fl. i. 14. 

 5. Ii/rala & S. obocala, Ell. Sk. i. 33 ; Benth. in DC. 1. e. 353 ; the latter merely a form with 

 thin and barely dentate leaves ; calyx-teeth variable in length. — Sandy woodlands, New 

 Jersey to Illinois, Florida, and Texas ; flowering early. 



# # Corolla scarlet-red, four times the length of the calyx : herbage softly and often canescently 

 pubescent : caTiline leaves all slender-pelioled, at least the lower ones 3-5-folioIate. 



S. Roemeriana, Scheele. Stems (afoot or two high) and petioles below often sparsely 

 hirsute with long spreading hairs ; leaves or terminal leaflet roundish or reniform-cordate, 

 coarsely repand-toothed or crenately incised (an inch or two broad), membranaceous ; the 

 lower usually with 2 or 3 similar but smaller (subsessile or slender-petiolulate) lateral 

 leaflets, these occasionally reduced to dentiform appendages on the petiole : raceme loose 

 and elongated : floral leaves mostly shorter than the pedicels : calyx somewhat pubescent, 

 naked within; its upper lip 3-aristulate or with the middle tooth obsolete; the 2-parted 

 lower one of triangular-lanceolate cuspidate-acuminate teeth : corolla (an inch or more 

 long) deep scarlet, puberulent, narrowly tubular-funnelform, somewhat arcuate ; its 

 spreading lower lip with rounded and obcordate-2-cleft middle lobe, hardly longer than the 

 erect strongly emarginate upper lip ; lobes of the style more or less unequal. — Scheele in 

 Linn. xxii. 586; Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 132. S. porpJii/mntha (or porphyrata) , Decaisnc in 

 Rev. Hort. 1854, t. 16; Fl. Serres, t. 1080; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. £930. — In light fertile soil, 

 W. Texas, Wright, Lindheimer, &c. (Adjacent Mex.) 



S. Henryi, Gray. More slender, less soft-pubescent : leaves or mostly leaflets smaller, 

 seldom cordate, angulate-lobed ; lower floral ones often similar, all as long as the pedicels : 

 calyx hirsute, ciliate-bearded or villous in the sinuses and throat : corolla apparently nar- 

 rower and with shorter less notched lips ; the bearded ring at base within obsolete. — Proc. 

 Am. Acad. viii. 368. -S. Roemeriana, Torr. 1. c, in part. — New Mexico, on the Mimbres, 



