550 LABIATE monardella 



MICROMERIA 



long as the internodes, all petioled : heads often peduncled, 6-8 lines high : 

 bracts foliaceous, spreading or reflexed, lanceolate to ovate, sometimes 

 acuminate from an orbicular base : calyx about 5 lines long, pubescent ; 

 its triangular-subulate teeth ciliate : corolla purple to white; its pubescent 

 tube almost filiform, hardly at all enlarged upward, not longer than the 

 calyx ; its linear lobes nearly as long as the tube. On gravelly banks and 

 bars of the Rogue river, Oregon. 



M. purpurea. Verv smooth and shining except the inflorescence: 

 whole herbage usually reddish-purple: stems slender, 3-8 inches high, 

 simple, from a woody perennial base: leaves oblong- ovate to lanceolate, 

 4-12 lines long, mostly longer than the internodes, all petioled, very entire 

 and obtuse: heads broad and rather loose, 8-10 lines high, often peduncl- 

 ed: bracts broadly ovate to oblong, never reflexed, tinged with purple, 

 villous-ciliate, 4-6 lines long : calyx about 5 lines long, glabrous ; its subu- 

 late teeth hirsute : corolla about 10 lines long ; its pubescent tube very 

 slightly enlarged upward, much longer than the calyx the linear lobes 

 aboutj 4 lines long. In dry rocky places, eastern base of the Coast Moun- 

 tain Sj southwestern Oregon. 



M. odoratissima Benth. Lab. 332. Somewhat cinereous with a min- 

 ute scurfy puberulence : stems often stoutish and much branched, 4-10 

 inches long, very numerous from a perennial woody base, decumbent or 

 ascending : leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, subsessile, 4-12 lines 

 long, mostly longer than the internodes, acute at both ends: heads 6-10 

 lines high : bracts broadly ovate, very obtuse, 4-6 lines long : calyx about 

 5 lines long, puberulent. its triangular acute teeth softly villous: corolla 

 rose-color, its pubescent tube slightly dilated upward, a line or more lon- 

 ger than the calyx, lobes oblong-linear, 3-4 lines long. In rocky ravines, 

 eastern Washington to California and the Rocky Mountains. 



M. discolor Greene Pitt, ii, 24. " Rigidly suffrutescent, diffuse, a 

 span high : leaves small, (%-% inch long), ovate-lanceolate, entire, short- 

 petioled, green and nearly glabrous above, white-tomentose beneath, 

 scarcely punctate, the veins prominent beneath : heads small, bracts few, 

 ovate or oblong, obtuse, of firm texture, tomentose-canescent, not colored, 

 parallel-nerved: calyx-teeth short, acutieh, woolly-hairy without: corollas 

 light purple. " 



" Gravelly banks of the Yakima River near Clealum Washington. " 



6 MICROMERIA Benth, in Bot. Reg. under n. 1282. 



Shrubs or herbs with entire or merely dentate leaves and small 

 flowers in bracted spikes, or few in the axils of the leaves. Calyx 

 tubular, 13-15-nerved, 5-toothed, the teeth subequal or somewhat 

 bilabiate. Corolla short, its straight tube usually shorter or 

 hardly longer than the calyx; the limb bilabiate; upper lip erect 

 entire or emarginate, lower lip spreading, 3-lobed. Stamens 4, 

 arcuate, shorter than the corolla, the anterior pair longest : an- 

 thers 2-celled. Style beardless. 



M. Douglasii Benth. Lab. 372. Minutely pubescent: stems slender, 

 simple, trailing, 6-20 inches long: leaves round-ovate, crenate, 6-12 lines 

 long, on petioles 2-3 lines long : flowers usually solitary in the axils of the 

 leaves in the middle of the stem, on filiform peduncles 4-6 lines long; 

 calyx about 4 lines long, its acute triangular teeth less than a line long: 

 corolla about 6 lines lone, white, narrow-funnelform, with slender tube 

 about equalling the calyx, ampliate throat and short rounded lobes. 

 Common in wooded districts, Brit. Columbia to California. 



