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lobes wholly united into a flaring funnel-shaped structure resembling 

 a small morning-glory flower; corolla white or pinkish, the upper lip 

 concave or galeate, including the stamens; stamens 4, paired; nutlets 

 truncate at apex. 

 1. Moluccella laevis L., Sp. PI. 587. 1753. 



Oracle, Pinal County, 4,900 feet (Oslar in 1903), also in southern 

 Utah, very near the Arizona border. An occasional escape from 

 gardens in the United States; native of the Mediterranean region. 



15. STACHYS. Betony, hedgenettle 



Perennial herbs; leaves deltoid-ovate or oblong, the upper ones 

 gradually reduced; flowers usually 3 in the axils of leaflike bracts, 

 disposed in interrupted spikes; flowering calyx turbinate, somewhat 

 larger at maturity, the teeth more or less deltoid and spinulose at tip ; 

 corolla bright red or whitish, the tube cylindric, pilose-annulate within 

 below the middle and often constricted at the annulus, even saccate, 

 the upper lip galeate, including the stamens, the lower lip spreading; 

 stamens 4, attached near the middle of the corolla tube, paired; 

 nutlets obovate, smooth or roughened. 



Key to the species 



1. Corolla bright red, the tube 18 to 21 mm. long, transversely annulate near the 



base; leaves deltoid-ovate, petiolate 1. S. coccinea. 



1. Corolla white, pallid, or pink, the tube 5.5 to 8.5 mm. long, obliquely annulate 



below the middle and more or less constricted and saccate on the lower 



side; leaves oblong, sessile or nearly so (2). 



2. Stems clothed with soft appressed silvery hairs; leaves prevailingly 8 to 12 



mm. wide, appressed-pubescent on both faces, the upper face somewhat 



silky. _: 2. S. rothrockii. 



2. Stems clothed with spreading stiffish hairs; leaves prevailingly 1.5 to 4 cm. 

 wide, thinly clothed with spreading hairs on both faces_3. S. palustris. 



1. Stachys coccinea Jacq., PL Hort. Schoenbr. 3:18. 1798. 



1 Stachys limitanea A. Nels., Amer. Jour. Bot. 25: 115. 1938. 



Gila, Graham, Pinal, Cochise, Santa Cruz, and Pima Counties, 3,000 

 to 8,000. feet, rich soil in canyons, etc., March to October. Western 

 Texas to southern Arizona and Mexico. 



A showy plant, responding readily to cultivation. S. limitanea A. 

 Nels., based on a collection near Ruby, Santa Cruz County (Nelson 

 1471), is described as lacking fine puberulence and as pubescent with 

 long soft ciliae below. 



2. Stachys rothrockii A. Gray, Amer. Acad. Arts and Sci. Proc. 12: 82. 



1876. 



Apache County to eastern Mohave and northern Yavapai Counties, 

 5,000 to 7,000 feet, chiefly in open pine forests, summer, type from 

 Arizona near Zuni, N. Mex. (Rothrock 177). Western New Mexico and 

 Arizona. 



The plants grow in colonies from deep rootstocks. The wilted 

 corollas are purplish. 



3. Stachys palustris L., Sp. PI. 580. 1753. 



White Mountains (Apache and Greenlee Counties), Flagstaff and 

 Willow Spring (Coconino County), 7,000 to 9,000 feet, moist shady 



