Genus 24. 



MINT FAMILY. 



5. Monarda mollis L. Pale Wild Berga- 

 mot. Fig. 3640. 



Monarda mollis L. Amoen. 'Acad. 3: 399. 1787. 

 Monarda scabra Beck, Am. Journ. Sci. 10 : 260. 1826. 



Perennial; stem slender, puberulent at least 

 above, usually branched, I "-32 high. Leaves 

 thick or firm, pale, usually short-petioled, acumi- 

 nate or acute at the apex, rounded, narrowed or 

 cordate at the base, sharply or sparingly serrate, 

 canescent or puberulent, rarely nearly glabrous, 

 sometimes with a few scattered spreading hairs 

 on the veins or petiole, i'-zY long, i'-l' wide; 

 flower-clusters terminal, solitary; bracts green or 

 slightly pink, calyx puberulent, often hairy at the 

 summit, densely villous in the throat, its short 

 pointed teeth nearly erect; corolla yellowish, 

 lilac or pink, about i\' long, pubescent, some- 

 times glandular; stamens exserted. 



On prairies and plains, mostly in dry soil, Maine to 

 Ontario, British Columbia, Alabama, Nebraska, Mis- 

 souri, Texas and Colorado. June-Aug. 



6. Monarda Bradburiana Beck. Brad- 

 bury Monarda. Fig. 3641. 



Monarda Bradburiana Beck, Am. Journ. Sci. 10 : 

 _'6o. 1826. 



Perennial, sparingly villous or glabrate; 

 stem slender, often simple, l-2high. Leaves 

 rather thin, bright green, ovate or ovate-lan- 

 ceolate, sessile, or very nearly so, or partly 

 clasping by the cordate or subcordate base, 

 acuminate at the apex, serrate, 2-3V long; 

 flower-clusters solitary and terminal ; bracts 

 green or purplish ; calyx glabrous outside, hir- 

 sute within and narrowed at the throat, its 

 teeth long, bristle-pointed, divergent, longer 

 than the diameter of the tube; corolla pink or 

 nearly white, about i' long, its upper lip pu- 

 bescent or puberulent, the lower commonly 

 purple-spotted ; stamens exserted. 



On dry hills or in thickets, Indiana to Alabama, 

 west to Kansas and Arkansas. May-July. 



Monarda punctata L. 

 Fig. 3642. 



Horse-mint. 



Monarda punctata L. Sp. PI. 22. 1753. 



Perennial, usually rather densely pubescent or 

 downy ; stem usually much branched, 2-3 high. 

 Leaves lanceolate, linear-lanceolate or narrowly 

 oblong, serrate with low teeth, or nearly entire, 

 usually acute at both ends, green, manifestly peti- 

 oled, l'-3' long, 2"-y" wide, often with smaller 

 ones fascicled in their axils; flower-clusters axil- 

 lary and terminal, numerous; bracts white or 

 purplish, conspicuous, acute ; calyx puberulent, 

 villous in the throat, its teeth short, triangular- 

 lanceolate, acute, not longer than the diameter 

 of the tube; corolla yellowish, purple-spotted, 

 about 1' long, the stamens equalling or slightly 

 surpassing its pubescent upper lip. 



In dry fields, southern New York to Florida, wesl 

 to Minnesota, Kansas and Texas. Rignum. July-Oct. 



