DIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA, 17 



24. MONARDA. L, (Mountain-balm.) 



Calix 5-toothed, cylindric, striate. Corolla 

 ringent, with a long cylindric tube, upper lip 

 linear, nearly straight and entire, involving the 

 filaments; lower lip reflected, broader, S-lobed, 

 the middle lobe longer. 



Flowers axiilary-vertlcillate, or terminal and capitate, 

 with invoiucrate bractes; colour scarlet, crimson, violet, 

 or white, and in two species yellowish and spotted, with 

 highly coloured bractes. (A North American genus ) 



StEciES. I. M. didyma. 2. Kabniana. 3. rugosa. 4. cUno- 

 podia. 5. gracilis. Q- purpurea. 7 ■ oblongata.^, mollis, d-JistU" 

 losa* 10. punctata' 11. ciliata' 12' hirsuta. 



as. SALVIA. L. (Sage.) 



Calix subcampanulate, striate, and 2-Iipped, 

 above 3-toothed, below bifid. Corolla, tube 

 widening at the ftiux, limb bilabiate, the up- 

 per lip arched and emarginate, the lovjer 3- 

 lobed,the lateral segments narrower, the inter- 

 mediate one larger and nearly round (some- 

 times crenate). The 2 fertile filaments trans- 

 versely pedicellate. 



Herbs or sufFruticose shrubs; flowers with 1 to 6 

 bractes or axillary leaves, often spiked. Filaments of the 

 stamina variously stipitate, sometimes in the middle, at 

 other times above or below it, terminated at only one, 

 or more commonly at both ends, by 1-celled anthers, one 

 of which is always infertile; there are also considerable 

 variations in the lip of the corolla. 



Species 1. S. azurea. 2. coccinea. 5} * irichosienioides. 

 (Missouri). 4. urticifoiia. 5. hjrata. 6. Claijtoni. 7. oho- 

 vat a. 



Obs. a yery numerous g-enus, and widely disseminated 

 over the world; flowers large and of very brilliant colours 



and veined; verticilli many-flowered, flowers minu'e, shorter 

 than the calix; bracles ciliate, calix strigose. O H. hispida^, 

 Parsh, 2. p. 414. 



On the open alluvions of the Missouri. O. June. From 4 t^o 

 6 inches high, nearly aliied to the IL Fules^iQides. 

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