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VOL. III. 



8. Monarda pectinata Xutt. Plains Lemon Monarda. Fig. 3643. 



M. pectinata Nutt. Proc. Acad. Phila. (II.) i 

 1848. 



182. 



Annual, puberulent ; stem stout, simple or branch- 

 ed, i-2 high. Leaves lanceolate or oblong -lan- 

 ceolate, mostly sharply serrate or serrulate, acute 

 at the apex, narrowed at the base, i'-3' long, 

 2"-6" wide ; flower-clusters axillary and terminal, 

 several or numerous ; bracts pale, usually grayish 

 or brownish, gradually awned at the tip ; calyx- 

 tube nearly glabrous, the throat densely villous, 

 the teeth bristle-pointed, barbed, lax, nearly half 

 as long as the tube; corolla pink or nearly white, 

 not spotted, nearly or quite glabrous, 8"-io" 

 long; stamens not exserted. 



On dry plains, Nebraska and Colorado to Texas 

 and Arizona. Prairie-bergamot. June-Sept. 



Monarda citriodora Cerv., of Mexico, to which 

 this was referred in our first edition, differs by long 

 narrow reflexed bracts and shorter calyx-teeth. 



Monarda tenuiaristata (A. Gray) Small [M. aris- 

 tata Nutt., not Hook.] of the south-central States, 

 with narrower bracts and longer plumose calyx-teeth, 

 ranges northward into Kansas. 



9. Monarda dispersa Small. Purple 

 Lemon Monarda. Fig. 3644. 



M. dispersa Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 1038. 1903. 



Annual, puberulent ; stem stout, usually 

 branched, i-2? high. Leaves oblong-spatu- 

 late, oblanceolate or oblong, or narrowly ob- 

 long to linear on the upper part of the stem, 

 i'-4i' long, shallowly serrate; flower clusters 

 axillary and terminal, often numerous and 

 usually conspicuous by the broad abruptly 

 bristle-tipped purple bracts; calyx-tube longer 

 than in M. pectinata, the teeth usually longer 

 and more slender, fully half as long as the 

 tube; corolla pale, usually pink, puberulent, 

 1 1 "-13" long; stamens mostly not exceeding 

 the upper lip. 



On plains and prairies and in cultivated grounds, 

 Missouri and Kansas to Georgia, Florida, Texas, 

 New Mexico and adjacent Mexico. May-Aug. 



25. BLEPHILIA Raf. Journ. Phys. 89: 98. 1819. 



Perennial hirsute or pubescent erect herbs, with axillary and terminal dense glomerules 

 of rather small purplish or bluish flowers, or the glomerules in terminal more or less inter- 

 rupted spikes. Calyx tubular, 13-nerved, not villous in the throat, 2-lipped, the upper lip 

 3-toothed, the lower 2-toothed, the teeth all aristate or those of the lower lip subulate. 

 Corolla glabrous within, the tube expanded above, the limb 2-lipped ; upper lip erect, entire ; 

 lower lip 3-lobed, the notched middle lobe narrower than the lateral ones. Anther-bearing 

 (anterior) stamens 2, ascending, exserted or included; posterior stamens reduced to filiform 

 staminodia, or none; anthers 2-celled, the sacs divaricate, somewhat confluent at the base. 

 Ovary deeply 4-parted; style 2-cleft at the apex. Nutlets ovoid, smooth. [Greek, eyelash, 

 from the fringed calyx-teeth.] 



Two species, natives of eastern North America. Type species : Blephilia ciliata (L.) Raf. 



Upper leaves lanceolate or oblong, sessile or short-petioled, slightly serrate. i. B. ciliata. 



Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, long-petioled, sharply serrate. 2. B. hirsuta. 



