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LABI AT JE. 



turbinate, the teeth triangular, cuspidate, in age spreading, somewhat 

 indurated; corolla-tube 4 lines long, exserted about 1 line, bearing 

 within at its middle an oblique ring of hairs interrupted on the upper 

 side opposite the style and indicated exteriorly by a distinct although 

 only partial constriction; filaments densely pubescent at the middle. 



The most common species, found everywhere among the low hills 

 of the Coast Ranges. Mar.-Apr. 



5. S. Californica Benth. Slender, 2 to 4 ft. high; leaves ovate- 

 oblong, ample, subcordate at base, sparsely villous-hispid; corolla- 

 tube exceeding the calyx, nearly twice as long; hairy ring at base of 

 tube horizontal. 



Santa Cruz Mountains, in shady woods. June. We are not 

 sure that this plant is identical with that of Bentham; our 

 specimens do not answer in every particular to Bentham's diagnosis 

 and the original description is not altogether satisfactory. 



ti. S. Chamissonis Benth. Several ft. high, the angles of the 

 stems retrorsely scabrous, the hairs pustulate; leaves soft-pubescent, 

 ovate, 3 or 4 in. long; calyx \ in. long, clavate-tubular, much shorter 

 than the tube of the red corolla; hairy ring near base of corolla-tube. 



Near the coast: Sausalito, Kellogg; Bolinas Bay; Point Keyes 

 Peninsula and northward; formerly at San Francisco, Bolander, 



LAMIUM AMPLBXIGAULE L. Henbit. Low annual, decumbent at 

 base; internodes below the inflorescence very long; leaves rounded, 

 toothed or lobed, the lowest petiolate, the floral sessile; calyx with 5 

 nearly equal awn-pointed teeth, much surpassed by the elongated 

 corolla-tube; upper lip of corolla bearded, lower spotted. — Sonoma 

 Co., Bioletti, 1892. 



8. SALVIA L. Sage. 

 Herbaceous or low-shrubby plants with the flowers usually in 

 whorls, forming terminal racemes or spikes, the floral leaves mostly 

 reduced to bracts. Calyx bilabiate, the upper lip entire or 3-toothed, 

 the lower 2-cleft. Corolla with the upper lip erect, straight, concave 

 or falcate, sometimes obsolete; lower lip spreading, 3-lobed, the 

 middle lobe often emarginate, cleft or fringed. Stamens inserted in 

 the throat of the corolla; anterior pair fertile; the posterior pair 

 obsolete or represented by sterile filaments or vestiges; anther-eel Is 

 widely separated on a long filament-like connective longer than the 

 filament itself and jointed to it by the middle or near one end; con- 

 nective at its upper end (under the upper lip of the corolla) bearing a 

 perfect anther-cell, at its lower end a deformed anther-cell or the 

 anther-cell obsolete. In some species the filament is seemingly sim- 

 ple, but is really jointed, indicating the presence of the connective, 

 the lower end of which sometimes projects as a subulate point but 

 never bears a trace of an anther-cell. (From the Latin, salveo, to 

 save, some of the species being officinal.) 



Lower end of connective bearing a deformed anther-cell or a rudiment; 

 flower-whorls few ; annuals. 



