Class II. Order I. 9 



Bractes sheathing. Calyx obtuse, gibbous. Flowers purple, 

 yellow inside. Upper lip entire, lower lip much inflated, three 

 lobed, its middle lobe pressed upward by the spur, which is 

 short, greenish, obtuse, and bending upward, compressed trans- 

 versely, notcarinate, and shorter than the upper lip. Sent from 

 Danvers by Dr. Nichols. August. 



10. LYCOPUS. 

 LYCOPUS EUROP.EUS. L. Water horehound. 



Lower leaves cut, upper leaves lanceolate, serrate ; 

 calyx acuminate-prickly. 



Stem square ; leaves opposite, lower ones deeply, upper ones 

 more slightly toothed. Flowers in whorls. This plant, as Dr. 

 Smith observes, resembles the mints, but has no aromatic smell. 

 Wet ground, flowering all summer. Perennial. 

 LYCOPUS VIRGINICUS. L. Virginian Water horehound, Bu- 

 gle, weed. 



Leaves broad lanceolate, serrate, narrowed at base ; 

 calyx shorter than the seed, not prickly. 



Stem obtusely quadrangular. Leaves opposite, smooth, vari- 

 ously toothed. Flowers in small whorls, the calyx short and un- 

 armed. Between this and the preceding there are all interme- 

 diate varieties. Wet grounds. July, August. Perennial. 



This plant has had much popular reputation as a temporary 

 remedy in haemoptysis, a disease which it is more easy to arrest 

 for a time, than to prevent permanently. 



11. MONARDA. 



MONARDA ALLOPHYLLA. Mich. Soft Monttrdtt. 



Leaves oblong, sharply serrate ; head terminal ; 

 calyx bearded at the edge ; corollas slender, elongated. 



Syil. JWdNARDA OBLONGATA. Jlit. 



Stem* square, commonly purple or spotted, two feet high ; 

 leaves soft and downy, dotted under a magnifier, rounded at base, 

 serrate on the sides, entire towards the point. Petioles and 

 smaller branches downy. Bractes and calyxes ciliate. Flowers, 

 in terminal heads, blue or flesh coloured. Corolla downy, upper 



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