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4. Hedeoma drummondii Benth., Labiat. den. et Sp. 368. 1836. 

 Carrizo Mountains (Apache County), Kaibab Plateau (Coconino 



County), and eastern Mohave County to Greenlee. Cochise, and Santa 

 Cruz Counties, 3.500 to 7.000 feet, May to September. North Dakota 

 and Montana to Texas. Arizona, and northern Mexico. 



5. Hedeoma dentatum Ton*., U. S. and Mex. Bound. Bot. 130. 1859. 

 Graham. Cochise. Santa Cruz, and Pima Counties, 4,000 to 6,500 



feet, August to October. Southern Arizona and northern Mexico. 



6. Hedeoma oblongifolium (A. Gray) Heller. Muhlenbergia 1: 4. 



1900. 



Hedeoma piperita var. oblongifolia A. Gray, Amer. Acad. Arts 

 and Sci. Proc. 8: 366. 1872. 



Coconino and Mohave Counties to Cochise and Pima Counties. 

 4.000 to 8,000 feet. June to September. New Mexico, Arizona, and 

 northern Mexico. 



19. POLIOMINTHA 



Shrub, clothed with a minute feltlike whitish tomentum; leaves 

 essentially linear or linear-oblong, thickish; flowers 1 to 3, in small, 

 axillary, sometimes subspicate cymules; calyx 15-veined, the tube 

 pilose with silky spreading hairs, the teeth subequal, more or less 

 comiivent, the calyx strongly annulate in the throat ; corolla pale blue. 

 the tube strongly but incompletely annulate somewhat above the 

 middle, with coarse ascending hairs; stamens 2. seated well above the 

 middle of the corolla tube, ascending against the upper lip; nutlets 

 smooth, oblong. 



1. Poliomintha incana (TonO A. Gray, Amer. Acad. Arts and Sci. 

 Proc. 8: 296. 1870. 



Hedeoma incana Ton*., U. S. and Mex. Bound. Bot. 130. 1859. 



Apache. Navajo, and Coconino Counties, 4.500 to 6.000 feet, com- 

 mon in sandy deserts. May to September. Western Texas to southern 

 Utah and northern Arizona. 



An attractive plant, reported as responding well to cultivation. 

 It is stated that the Hopi Indians eat the herbage raw or boiled, 

 sometimes drying it for use in winter, and use the flowers for seasoning 

 food. 



20. CLINOPODIUM. Wild-basil 



Perennial herb, hirsute with spreading hairs: leaves ovate, suben- 

 tire; flowers in rather dense cymules, these either terminal and hemi- 

 spheric or more commonly 2, forming an interrupted spike; calyx 

 tubular, bilabiate, the 3 posterior teeth united to the middle, subulate, 

 somewhat reflexed, the lower teeth free, subulate; corolla rose-colored, 

 the upper lip erect, somewhat concave but scarcely galea te; stamens 

 4, paired, seated weU within the corolla throat; nutlets smooth, ovate. 



1. Clinopodium vulgare L., Sp. PL 587. 1753. 



Coconino County, and Santa Catalina Mountains (Pima County), 

 6,000 to 7,500 feet, rich shaded ground. July to September. Canada 

 to North Carolina, New Mexico, and Arizona; Eurasia 



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