224 BOTANY. 



sol'th pubescent, villous or hispid j leaves petioled, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse 

 or acute, crenate, cordate at base ; racemes elongated; whorls 6-flowered, 



all distant; corolla pubescent, nearly thrice longer than the calyx, the 

 tube much exserted.— Camp Grant, Arizona, at 4,753 feel elevation, and 

 Camp Bowie, at 5,300 feel elevation, August, 1874, Rothrock (386,461, 



483). Stems 1 to 2 feet high; hairs clothing the leaves and stems soft and 



short, or more rig-id, especially on the angles of the stem, or almost wanting : 

 leaves deeply or shortly crenate, larger ones sometimes 2 or even ."> inches 

 long; whorls of flowers few, very distant or numerous in a short or long 

 raceme; calyx sessile or pedicellate, with a tube 2 to 3 lines long, and short 

 or long teeth, which are either subspinescent, erect, or somewhat spreading, 

 or long subulate-acuminate ; corolla varying from barely 9 lines to more 

 than an inch in length. 



Stachys albens, Gray (Proc, Am. Acad. 7, p. 387). — Tall, 3 to 5 feet 

 high and rather strict, soft-tomentose throughout, with white or whitish 

 wool, leafy ; leaves oblong or ovate and mostly cordate, obtuse, crenate, 

 2 to 3 inches long, the lower short-petioled, the upper nearly sessile ; flowers 

 several or numerous in the capitate clusters, which mostly exceed the floral 

 leaves, and form an interrupted, at length elongated, virgate spike from 3 to 

 9 inches long; calyx turbinate-campanulate, its teeth triangular and awn- 

 pointed ; corolla white, with purple dots on the lower lip, glabrous, except 

 the villous beard on the back of the upper lip. — Arizona, 1871, 187l\ Wat- 

 son's Report. 



Stachys Rotiirockii, Gray (Proc. Am. Acad. 12, p. 82). — A span 

 high, branching from the base, covered with a coat of villous wool ; root 

 apparently perennial ; leaves all sessile, lanceolate, more <>r less obtuse, 

 sub-entire, about 1 inch long, the upper floral ones not surpassing the flowers; 

 whorls usually 3-flowered, in a crowded spike; calyx sessile, subcanipanu- 

 late, teeth subovate, awnless ; corolla 4 to 5 lines long, tube scarcely longer 

 than the calyx ; upper lip villous on the outside. — Zuni Village. X. Mex.. at 

 6,500 feet elevation, July, 1874, Rothrock (177). 



Stachys palustbiS, Linn. (Gray's Man. p. 358). — 'Front (/reek and 

 San Luis Valley, Colorado, 1873, Wolf 783, 785); Willow Spring, Arizona, 

 at 7,195 feet elevation, .July, 1874, Rothrock (240). 



