362 LiABIATAE. 



notched; lower lip spreading, 3-cleft. Stamens 4, converging under the upper 

 lip. (Creek melissa, a bee, these insects visiting the flowers for honey.) 



1. M. officinalis L. Garden Balm. Stems Bomewhat decumbent at base, 

 V\ to 2 ft. high; stems and petioles short- villous; Leaves hispidulous above, 

 truncate at base, L^j in. long or less, the petiole % to \'-> as long; calyx-teeth 

 unequal ; corolla 5 lines long. 



Sparingly naturalized: Marin Co.; Santa Eosa; Guerneville. 



12. MICROMERIA Benth. 



Trailing perennial herbs. Flowers small, white, solitary and pediceled in 

 the axils. Calyx tubular, about equally 5-toothed and striately 12 to 15-nerved. 

 Corolla bilabiate, the tube straight, shorter than or exceeding the calyx. 

 Stamens 4, all anther-bearing, shorter than the corolla. Style beardless. 

 (Greek mikros, small, and meros, part, on account of the small size of the 

 dowers.) 



1. M. chamissonis (Benth.) Greene. Yerba Buena. Stems slender, 1 

 ft. or more long; herbage slightly pubescent; leaves round-ovate, crenate, 

 glandular-punctate, especially on the under surface, % to 1 in. long or less, 

 on petioles 2 to 3 lines long; flowers about 4 lines long; calyx and corolla ex- 

 teriorly short hairy; lower pair of stamens longer. — (M. douglasii Benth.) 



Common in woods near the coast : Humboldt Co. ; Marin Co. ; Berkeley ; San 

 Francisco; Belmont; Monterey and southward to Southern California. June. 

 Lower pair of stamens longer. Eooting by stolons. 



13. SPHACELE Benth. 



Low shrub or merely suffrutescent. Flowers solitary in the axils of the 

 reduced upper leaves thus forming a leafy raceme. Calyx campanulate, deeply 

 and nearly equally 5-toothed, naked within, about 10 to 15-nerved, reticulate- 

 veiny, conspicuously inflated and membranous after flowering. Corolla large 

 and rather showy, with 4 short spreading lobes, the fifth and lowest lobe much 

 longer and erect; tube broad, a hairy ring at base within. Stamens 4, some- 

 what ascending; filaments naked; anthers somewhat approximate, the cells 

 diverging. (Sphakos, the name of the Greeks for Sage, the plants of this genus 

 having similar foliage.) 



1. S. calycina Benth. Pitcher Sage. Erect, 3 or 4 ft. high, pubescent 

 or even somewhat woolly; leaves very veiny or scarcely reticulated, broadly 

 ovate to oblong-ovate, obtuse, dentate or serrate, the base entire and. varying 

 from cordate to acute, 2 to 4 in. long, the lower on petioles y 2 i n - l° u g> the 

 uppermost sessile; corolla white or pink-tinted, over 1 in. long; calyx with 

 triangular-lanceolate lobes, in fruit ovoid-inflated, % to over 1 in. long; nutlets 

 black, finely pubescent but smooth, elliptical in outline, nearly 2 lines long. 



Hillsides and canons of the Coast Kanges: Vaca Mts.; Marin Co.; Mt. 

 Diablo; Belmont; Monterey and southward to Southern California. May- 

 June. On the higher ridges the leaves are small and very rugose. 



14. KOELLIA Moench. MOUNTAIN Mint. 



Glabrous or canescent perennial herbs with white flowers in densely crowded 

 whorls, the whorls remote and leafy-bracted or the uppermost subtended by 

 a pair of somewhat reduced leaves. Calyx oblong or tubular, its teeth equal. 

 Corolla-tube little exceeding the calyx; upper lip almost entire; lower 3-cleft. 

 Stamens l. nearly equal. (Koelle, a German botanisl of the 18th century.) 



1. K. californica (Torr.) Kimt/.e. Simple, erect, 2 to 3% ft. high; leaves 



