372 LABIATE. Salvia. 



S. SclArea, L. (Clary.) Biennial, villous-pubescent, viscid: stem stout, 2 or 3 feet high : 

 leaves ample, long-petioled, ovate and cordate, crenate, rugose ; floral forming bracts of 

 the cylindrical or interrupted spike, ovate, acuminate, tinged with white and rose-color : 

 calyx campanulate ; teeth spinulose-acuminate : corolla white and bluish, rather large, 

 widely ringent ; its short tube included ; long upper lip falcate and compressed. — Penn- 

 sylvania, escaped from gardens. (Nat. from Eu. ) 



S. verbenacea, L., Muhl. Perennial, pubescent or villous, a foot or two high : leaves ovate 

 or oblong, often cordate at base, obtuse, mostly sinuate-incised or moderately pinnatifid 

 and the lobes crenate-toothed, rugose, almost 'glabrous; the few cauline mostly sessile; 

 the floral inconspicuous, rounded-ovate : raceme interrupted : calyx reflexed after flower- 

 ing ; its broad and rounded upper lip recurved-spreading, with 3 minute connivent teeth ; 

 the lower of 2 longer triangular-subulate and cuspidate teeth, equalling the throat of the 

 small bluish corolla, the upper lip of which is nearly straight. — 5'. Claytoni, Ell., excl. 

 reference to Clayton, whose plant is S. l/jrata ? — Dry sandy pastures around Beaufort, 

 S. Carolina, Elliott. Sparingly seen in the Middle States. (Nat. from Eu.) 



29. AUDIBERTIA, Benth. (M. Audibert of Tarascon, Provence.) — 

 W. North American (all Californian, one species of wider range), fruticose or 

 perennial-herbaceous, mostly canescent-tomentose ; with crenate or crenulate and 

 reticulated leaves, and flowers resembling those of Salvia of the S. officinalis 

 type : fi. spring and summer. (Noted bee-plants in S. California.) 



§ 1. Inflorescence densely verticillastrate-glomerate and interrupted-spicate, 



much bracteate : corolla with tube longer than the limb. 



# Large-flowered: corolla fully inch and a half long, crimson-purple; upper lip rather erect and 

 short, emarginate : lower leaves cordate or hastate at base. 



A. grandiflora, Benth. Stem villous and glandular, stout, suffruteseent, 2 or 3 feet 

 high:. leaves very rugose, tomentose beneath, sinuate-crenate ; lower mostly hastate-lan- 

 ceolate, obtuse, 3 to 8 inches long, on margined petioles ; upper oblong and sessile ; floral 

 and bracts of the large heads broadly ovate, membranaceous : calyx spathaceous, deeply 

 cleft between the two small anterior cuspidate-tipped teeth ; ample concave upper lip 

 3-denticulate : stamens much exserted : a conspicuous slender tooth representing the lower 

 fork of the connective. — Lab. 312, & DC. Prodr. xii. 359; Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound, t. 38 

 (sterile filaments wrongly represented) ; Gray, Bot. Calif, i. 600. — California Coast Ranges, 

 &c, from San Mateo Co. southward. 



# # Smaller-flowered: corolla less than an inch long, violet or bluish: leaves not cordate. 

 ■•— Bracts, upper floral leaves, and bilabiate calyx scarious-membranaceous, reticulated, usually 



colored, obtuse and mutieous (or at most mucronate); the former large and roundish, half inch or 



mora long, imbricating the close heads: corolla only half inch long, narrow, and with short limb: 



low suffruticose species of the interior arid region. 



A. incana, Benth. 1. <;• Closely tomentose-canescent, leafy : leaves spatulate or obovate, 

 obtuse or retuse, not rugose, entire (or sparsely crenulate), seldom inch long : bracts 

 obovate or oval, pubescent and ciliate, purple-tinged : calyx turbinate ; anterior teeth 

 ovate or oblong, rather shorter than the truncate and emarginate very broad upper lip : 

 stamens much exserted: connective with or without a dentiform appendage. — Lindl. Bot. 

 Reg. t. 1469; Gray, 1. c. — From interior of Washington Terr, and Idaho south to Arizona, 

 and along the eastern borders of California. 



A. capitata, Gray. Cinereous-puberulent : leaves oblong, acutish, very rugose, crenu- 

 late, slender-petioled: bracts of solitary head ovate or oval, apparently whitish : flowers, 

 &c, of the preceding. — Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 387, & Bot. Calif. I.e. — Providence Moun- 

 tains, San Bernardino Co., S. E. California, Cooper. 



-f— ^— Bracts more or less herbaceous, at least not colored: leaves minutely rugose, crenulate: 

 species restricted to California. 

 ++ Corolla barely half inch long : all the calyx-teeth and bracts subulate or aristate-tipped. 



A. humilis, Benth. 1. c. Stems simple and only a span high from a thickened suffruti- 

 cose base, almost leafless and scapiform : leaves crowded at the base, lanceolate or spatu- 

 late-oblong, very obtuse, finely rugose, densely crenulate, canescent, an inch or more long, 



