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CRIMSON MONARDA. Momrck Fistulosa, 



Natural Order Vertidllatce. Labiatcd, Juss : a Genus 

 of the Diandria Monogynia Class. 



We are indebted to the New World for all the 

 species of this genus of plants, of which we now 

 possess seven. It is named Monarda from Nic. 

 Monarda, or Monardes, a physician of Seville, 

 who flourished in the sixteenth century. 



We are not able to ascertain whether this plant 

 was known in Spain so early as the sixteenth 

 century ; but the Fistulosa, with purple flowers, 

 was the first species known in England, and was 

 introduced in the year 1656, by Mr. John Trade- 

 scant, jun. ; whether he obtained it direct from 

 Canada, where it is a native, we are uncertain. 

 The Crimson-flowered Monarda is a variety of 

 the Fistulosa, and was first obtained from the 

 Dutch florists by Messrs. Grimwood and Co., of 

 Kensington, about the year 1790. This beautiful 

 plant recommends itself to our notice by the fra- 

 grance of its foliage as well as by its tufts of 

 beautiful crimson flowers, which crown every 



