MINT FAMILY 



ing flowers. Found on the banks of woodland streams 

 in hilly country and sparingly transferred to gardens. 

 New England, Ontario and Michigan, south to Georgia. 

 July-September. 



Stem. — Three to four feet high, square, rough-hairy, 

 reddish toward the summit. 



Leaves. — Opposite, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, petioled, 

 serrate, acuminate, three to six inches long; midrib 

 and veins conspicuous and sometimes reddish. 



Flowers. — Borne in dense terminal heads or in axillary 

 clusters, deep red, two-lipped, gaping. Bracts commonly 

 red. 



Calyx. — Long, tubular, narrow, many-nerved, five- 

 toothed, reddish. 



Corolla. — Deep red, two-lipped, long, gaping; upper 

 lip erect; lower lip three-lobed, the narrow middle lobe 

 slightly notched. 



Stamens. — Two, ascending and looking out under the 

 upper lip of the corolla, inserted on the corolla-tube. 



Pistil. — Ovary deeply four-parted; style long and 

 slender; stigma two-lobed. 



Fruit. — Ovary ripens into four akenes. 



Pollinated by humming-birds, bumblebees, and butter- 

 flies. Nectar-bearing. 



A strikingly handsome plant when in full bloom; 

 dwelling of choice in the tangle of bushes and vines 

 by the side of a shady woodland stream where the 

 ground is moist. One looks for it in the hill country 

 rather than on the plain, but of late years the splendor 

 of its color has appealed to gardeners and landscape 

 artists so that one finds it in cultivated grounds, per- 

 haps, oftener than in the wild. 



The plant grows in tufts and bunches, the heads 



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