meussa LABIATE 551 



POGOGYNE 



7 MELISSA L. Sp. 592. 



Herbs with leafy stems broad dentate leaves and small white or 

 yellowish flowers in small axillary clusters. Calyx bilabiate, ob- 

 long-campanulate, 13-nerved, nearly naked in the throat : upper 

 lip flat, 3-toothed; the lower 2- parted. Corolla exserted, its tube 

 curved, enlarged above, naked within, the limb bilabiate ; upper 

 lip erect, emarginate ; lower lip spreading, 3-cleft. Stamens 4, 

 connivent and ascending under the upper lip of the corolla: an- 

 thers 2-celled, the cells divaricate. 



M. officinalis L. Sp. 592. Pubescent perennial: stems rather stout, 

 erect or ascending, 12-30 inches high: leaves ovate, petioled, pinnately 

 veined, coarsely dentate or crenate-dentate, 1-24 inches long: flowers 

 several in the axillary clusters, short-pedicelled : calyx about 3 lines long, 

 the teeth of its lower lip slightly exceeding those o"f the upper: corolla 

 white, 5-7 lines long. In waste places : naturalized from Europe. 



8 POGOGYNE Benth. Lab. 441. 



Low annuals with mostly entire leaves and numerous small 

 flowers in dense or interrupted terminal bracted spikes: the bracts 

 usually hirsutely ciliate. Calyx deeply and unequally 5-cleft, 

 the teeth hirsutely ciliate, the two lower longest : the tube cam- 

 panulate or turbinate, mostly 15-nerved: the throat naked within. 

 Corolla straight, tubular-funnelform, with short lips : upper lip 

 erect, entire, lower lip 3-lobed, spreading. Stamens 4, the upper 

 pair shortest, all with anthers, or the upper pair sterile, ascend- 

 ing and above more or less approximate in pairs : anthers 2-celled, 

 the cells parallel and pointless. Style somewhat exserted, beard- 

 ed above. 



P. Oouglasii Benth. 1. c. Stem commonly 2-6 inches high, simple, 

 or branched from the base: leaves oblanceolate to obovate, 9-15 lines long, 

 narrowed below to a petiole : flowers in approximate whorls, forming a 

 dense, terminal spike, often with a single accessory whorl below, fc or 

 sometimes several of the lower axils with flowers : bracts linear, cuspidate, 

 their margins ciliate with bristly white hairs : calyx about 4 lines lon^r, 

 the lower teeth about twice as long as the tube, much longer and narrower 

 than the others, all bristly-ciliate : corolla 7-9 lines long, blue, the palate 

 white dotted with purple, bristly : nutlets smooth, often mottled, minutely 

 hispid at the apex. In low places that are covered with water in winter, 

 Jackson Co. Oregon to California. 



Tribe 3 Monardese Benth. in DC. Prodr. xii, 888. Antherifer- 

 ous stamens only 2, straight or commonly parallel-ascending. An- 

 thers with narrow usually oblong-linear cells , which are either wide- 

 ly separated on the upper and lower ends of a linear or filiform 

 connective which is usually longer than the filament and articulated 

 with it, or the lower cell wanting or deformed^ or the two cells confluent 

 into one linear cell. 



9 AUDIBERTIA Benth. Bot. Reg. t. 1469. 



Shrubs or herbs with mostly crenulate leaves and numerous 

 flowers in capitate-glomerate or verticilastrate terminal heads or 



