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erect, the lower pair of stamens are al that time distinctly although but slightly 

 Longer than the upper. 



5. S. calif ornica Benth. Slender, 2 to 4 ft. high; leaves ovate-oblong, 

 ample, subcordate at base, sparsely villous-hispid; corolla-tube exceeding the 

 calyx, nearly twice as long; hairy ring at base of tube horizontal. 



Santa Cruz Mts., in shady woods. June. 



6. S. chamissonis Benth. Several ft. high, t lie angles of the stems retrorse- 

 ly scabrous, the hairs pustulate; leaves soft-pubescent, ovate, 3 or 4 in. long; 

 calyx J ■_. in. long, clavate-tubular, much shorter than the tube of the red corolla; 

 hairy ring near base of corolla-tube. 



Near the coast: San Francisco; Sausalito; Bolinas Bay; Pt. Reyes and north- 

 ward. 



Lamium amplexicaule L. Giraffe Head. Low annual, decumbent at base; 

 internodes below the inflorescence very long; leaves rounded, toothed or lobed, 

 the lowest petiolate, the floral sessile; calyx with 5 nearly equal awn-pointed 

 teeth, much surpassed by the elongated corolla-tube; upper lip of corolla 

 bearded, lower spotted. — Sonoma Co.; Napa Valley (Mrs. D. O. Hunt, who in- 

 vented the common name); Mt. Eden. 



8. SALVIA L. Sage. 

 Herbs or low shrubs with the flowers usually in whorls, forming terminal 

 racemes or spikes, the floral leaves mostly reduced to bracts. Calyx bilabiate, 

 the upper lip entire or 3-toothcd, the lower 2-cleft. Corolla with the upper 

 lip erect, straight, concave or falcate, sometimes obsolete; lower lip spreading, 

 3-lobed, the middle lobe often emarginate, cleft or fringed. Stamens inserted 

 in the throat of the corolla; lower pair fertile; upper pair obsolete or repre- 

 sented by sterile filaments or vestiges; anther-cells widely separated on a long 

 filament-like connective longer than the filament itself and jointed to it by the 

 middle or near one end; connective at its upper end (under the upper lip of the 

 corolla) bearing a perfect anther-cell, at its lower end a deformed anther-cell 

 or the anther-cell obsolete. In some species the filament is seemingly simple, 

 but is really jointed, thus indicating the presence of the connective, the lower 

 end of which sometimes projects as a subulate point but without a trace of an 

 anther-cell. (Latin, salveo, to save, some of the species being officinal.) 



Lower end of connective bearing a deformed anther-cell or a rudiment; flower-whorls 

 few; annuals. 

 Herbage white-woolly; bracts much surpassing the flowers; upper calyx-lip 3-toothed, 



the lateral distant from the middle one 1. 6". carduacca. 



Herbage green; bracts not exceeding the flowers; teeth of upper calyx lip 2, awned, 



partly connate 2. 5. columbariae. 



Lower end of connective reduced to a subulate point of slender thread, the filament 

 apparently simple; flower-whorls several; perennials. 

 Corolla white, whitish, or violet-tinged. 



Low shrub; middle lobe of lower lip of corolla emarginate, otherwise entire; upper 



lip present 3. 5. mellifera. 



Low matted herb, only the scape-like flowering stems ascending; middle lobe of lower 

 lip of corolla denticulate or fringed; upper lip obsolete 4. 5. sonomensis. 



Corolla crimson, 1 !.| in. long or more; herbaceous, stems ereet 5. S. spatlunca. 



1. S. carduacea Benth. Thistle-sage. Stems 1, 2 or 3 from a rosette 



of radical leaves, naked and scape like, bearing 1 to 4 whorls of flowers, 1 in. 



to 2 i'i. high; herbage white-woolly, particularly in the flower-whorls, the wool 

 more or less deciduous; Leaves oblong in outline, pinnatifid, with spinulose- 

 dentate margin, the radical 6 in. long or less; bracts ovate-lanceolate or 

 lanceolate, pectinate-spineecent, surpassing the flowers; calyx long-woolly, its 





