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Monardella purpurea

means little purple Monarda named
                         for Nicolas Monardes a Spanish
           Renaissance physician and botanist           (whose
" Joyfull newes out of the new-found worlde" made tobacco a household
                                      remedy throughout Europe)
leaves green or green flushed with purple          everything else
                    stems, bracts, calyx lobes, and corolla
purple        brachts modified leaf-like structures that subtend
                                                 the flower head
calyx the hairy ring of fused sepals that envelops
                             the flower tube at its base
uncommon on rocky slopes      often serpentine     chaparral
            woodland, and montane forests from the Klamath
and Outer North Coast Ranges

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. . just as, in accordance with Newton's Third Law of Motion, the ejection of the Sephardim propelled the ships towards the New World. This dynamic mode, along with the multi-directional release of forces by the action of the guillotine, represent the two sure domains of political mechanics. They are supplemented by a third affair: the necessary fiction.

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