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Flowers in a dense terminal spike, with roundish bracts; upper calyx-lip 



truncate with 3 cusps on the margin ; stamens 4. . 6. Brunella. 

 Flowers in whorls in a close spike or some of the lower whorls distinct; 

 bracts narrow, obspatulate or linear; lower calyxdip of 2 lanceolate- 

 subulate teeth longer than the 3 upper teeth; stamens 4 (or 2); style 



bearded above; annuals 10. Pogogyne. 



Flower-whorls distinct, commonly remote. 

 Stamens with anthers 4; flowers in axillary clusters; calyx in fruit 



deflexed 11. Melissa. 



Stamens with perfect anthers 2; upper pai-r of stamens none, rudi- 

 mentary, or with imperfect anthers. 

 Anther-cells without filament-like connective; bracts roundish, the 

 margins armed with long needle-like spines. . 9. Acanthomintha. 

 Anther-cells one at each end of a long versatile connective or cross-bar 

 which is attached near the middle to the filament proper, a perfect 

 anther-cell at the upper end, the anther-cell at the lower end 

 imperfect or none, or even the lower portion of the connective 

 obsolete 8. Salvia. 



1. TRICHOSTEMA L. Bu i: Curls. 

 Ours ill-scented annuals with entire leaves and blue (occasionally 

 pinkish or whitish) flowers in axillary cymes or becoming raceme- 

 like in age. Calyx equally or almost equally 5-cleft. Corolla with 

 oblique limb, the oblong lobes nearly alike; tube in ours slender, far 

 exceeding the calyx and abruptly geniculate or curved into an arc of 

 a circle just below the limb. Stamens with the anther-cells divari- 

 cate; filaments capillary, blue or violet, spirally coiled in the bud, in 

 anthesis very much exserted, ascending between the deeply parted 

 upper lobes of the corolla and curved outward and downward. Nut- 

 lets rugose-reticulate. (Greek trichos. hair, and stemon, stamen.) 



Stems densely leafy; leaves sessile 1. T. lanccolatvm. 



Stems sparsely leafy; leaves petioled 2. T. laxum. 



1. T. lanceolatum Benth. VINEGAR Weed. Annual, simple 

 or branching from near the base, 6 to 11 in. high, very leafy; herbage 

 cinereous or villous-pubescent and minutely glandular; leaves lan- 

 ceolate, acuminate, sessile, or the lowest subsessile, with 3 to 5 strong 

 almost parallel nerves or ribs, 1 in. long; cymes short-peduncled or 

 nearly sessile; calyx villous; corolla almost filiform, somewhat 

 pubescent. 



Dry plains and low hills throughout the Coast Eanges: Southern 

 California to Saratoga, Los Gatos, Alvarado, Lafayette, Vacaville. 

 Winters, Healdsburg and northward. Sierra Foothills. A bee plant 

 in Fresno Co., where it abounds in many localities and ' : yields a 

 white honey that granulates remarkably quick. ? ' 0. L. Abbott 

 Aug. -Sept. 



2. T. laxum Gray. Blue Curls. Simple or branching, 1 ft. 

 high or less, minutely pubescent, sparsely leafy; leaves lanceolate or 

 oblong-lanceolate, acuminate but obtusish, pinnately veined. 1 to 1.} 

 in. long, on slender petioles; cymes peduncled, rather loose; corolla 

 almost glabrous. 



Stream beds or low summer fields of the North Coast Ranges: 

 Sonoma Co. ; Pope Valley, Napa Co.; Putah Creek and northward. 

 Also inner South Coast Ranges ace. to Greene. Aug. -Sept. 



