376 LABIATE. Blephilia. 



31. BLEPHfLIA, Raf. (From pleyaoi.;, the eye-lash, suggested by the 

 conspicuously ciliate bracts, &c.) Perennial herbs, of the Atlantic United 

 States, resembling Monarda in foliage, &c., but with smaller verticillastrate-capi- 

 tate glomerules, the upper more spicate ; and small purple or bluish-white corolla, 

 with the lower lip darker-spotted : fl. summer. 



B. ciliata, Raf. Stem a foot or two high, often simple, downy with short soft pubes- 

 cence : leaves short-petioled, oblong, obtuse, obscurely serrate ; the upper sessile and 

 mostly narrowed at base ; lower floral similar, uppermost and outer bracts of the mostly 

 spicate-approximate heads ovate, cuspidate-acuminate, chartaceo-membranaceous, some- 

 what colored, strongly ciliate, conspicuously many-nerved from a stout midrib, about 

 equalling the calyx: corolla villous-pubescent outside, purple. Jour. Phys. Ixxxix. 98; 

 Benth. Lab. 319 & DC. Prodr. xii. 364. Monarda ciliata, L. Spec. i. 23 (Pluk. Aim. t. 164, 

 fig. 3; Moris. Hist. iii. sect. 11, t. 8, fig. 6.) Dry ground, Penn. (and recently at Hadley, 

 Mass. ), to Wisconsin, Georgia, and Missouri. Varies westward with more villous pubescence. 



B. hirsuta, Benth. I.e. Taller, loosely branching, villous-hirsute : leaves slender-peti- 

 oled, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, with rounded or subcordate base ; lower floral 

 similar, subtending remote heads ; upper floral and the bracts lanceolate and linear, subu- 

 late or aristate, few-nerved, hirsute with long hairs, as is the calyx : corolla less pubes- 

 cent, pale, with some conspicuous dark spots. B. nepetoides, Raf. 1. c. Monarda ftirsuta, 

 Pursh, Fl. i. 10. M. ciliata, Miclix. Fl. i. 16, not L. Moist shady places, Canada and 

 Vermont to Wisconsin, south to Missouri and E. Texas, and through the Alleghanies to 

 Georgia. 



32. LOPHANTHUS, Benth. (^oqpo s -, crest, and avOog, flower: appli- 

 cation not evident.) Perennial erect herbs (of N. America and N. E. Asia), 

 mostly tall and coarse ; with serrate and veiny petioled leaves, the lower usually 

 subcordate and the upper ovate, and small flowers in dense and sessile verticillas- 

 trate glomerules, which are congested into a terminal spike, either continuous or 

 interrupted below : floral leaves reduced to short ovate and acuminate bracts. 

 Nutlets minutely hairy or glandular at the top. Fl. summer. Bot. Reg. xv. & 

 Lab. 462. Agastache, Clayt., Gronov. Virg. ed. 2, 88. 



* Calyx-teeth green and herbaceous, ovate, obtuse : corolla greenish-yellow, almost included. 



L. nepetoides, Benth. 1. c. Glabrous or barely puberulent : stem 2i to 5 feet high, 

 acute-angled: leaves ovate, acute: spike cylindrical, linear, nearly continuous. Hyssopus 

 nepetoidfs, L. Spec. ii. 569; Jacq. Vind. t. 6D. Borders of woods, Vermont and Connecti- 

 cut to Wisconsin, and south to mountains of Carolina and Texas. 



* * Calyx-teeth acute, membranaceous, more or less colored: corolla purplish or bluish, more con- 

 spicuous. 



L. scrophulariaefolius, Benth. 1. c. Stem 4 to 6 feet high, stout : leaves ovate or the 

 lower cordate, acuminate, more or less pubescent or glabrous : spikes thickish, mostly 

 interrupted, 4 to 16 indies long: calyx-teeth ovate-lanceolate, acute, whitish : corolla dull 

 purplish. //. scrophiilariwfofius, Willd. Spec. iii. 48. Borders of thickets, New York to 

 Wisconsin, Kentucky, and mountains of N. Carolina. 



L. anisatus, Benth. 1. c. Glabrous or very minutely puberulent, 2 or 3 feet high : leaves 

 ovate, often subcordate, canescent beneath, anisate-scentcd when crushed: spike short and 

 narrow, interrupted, sometimes leafy below and paniculate: calyx canescently puberu- 

 lent ; the teeth ovate-lanceolate and merely acute, tinged with purple or violet : corolla 

 blue. Bot. Reg. t. 1282. Hyssopns anisatns,~Nutt. Gen. ii. 27. H. discolor, Desf. Cat. Par. 

 Stachys fanicnlum, Pursh, Fl. ii. 407. Plains, Wisconsin to Saskatchewan, the northern 

 Rocky Mountains, and Nebraska. 



L. urticifolius, Benth. 1. c. Like the last, hut leaves green both sides, mostly crenate 

 and more or less cordate, sweet-aromatic : calyx-teeth lanceolate, subulate-acuminate : 

 corolla light violet or purplish. Western slopes of Rocky Mountains to Oregon, Nevada, 

 and California. 



