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6. Monarda Bradburiana Beck. 

 Bradbury's Monarda. (Fig. 3136.) 



Monarda Biadhuriana Btck, Am. Journ. Sci. 



10: 260. 1S26. 



Perenuial, sparinglj- villous or glabrate; 

 stem slender, often simple, i°-2° bigh. 

 Leaves rather thin, bright green, ovate or 

 ovate-lanceolate, sessile, or very nearl)* so, or 

 partly clasping by the cordate or subcordate 

 base, acuminate at the apex, serrate, 2'-3>^' 

 long; flower-clusters solitary and terminal; 

 bracts green or purplish; calyx glabrous out- 

 side, hirsute within and narrowed at the 

 throat, its teeth long, bristle-pointed, diver- 

 gent, louger than the diameter of the tube; 

 corolla pink or nearly white, about I'long, its 

 upper lip pubescent or puberulent, the lower 

 commonly purple-spotted; stamens exserted. 



On dry hills or in thickets, Illinois to Ala- 

 bama, west to Missouri and Kansas. May-July. 



"P i^ 



7. Monarda punctata L. Horse-mint. 

 (Fig. 3137.) 



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



Perennial, usuallj' 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 pet- 

 ioled, i'-3' long, 2"-"" 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 louger than the diameter 

 of the tube; corolla yellowish, purple-spotted, 

 about i' long, the stamens equalling or slightly 

 surpassing its pubescent upper lip. 



In dry fields, soutliem New York to Florida, west 

 to Wisconsin and Te.^as. July-Uct. 



8. Monarda citriodora Cerv. Lemon 



Monarda. (Fig. 3138.) 



M. citriodora Cerv. ; Lag. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2. 1816. 

 Monarda aristata Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. (II.) 



5: 186. 1833-37- 



Annual, puberulent; stem stout, simple or 

 branched, i°-2° high. Leaves lanceolate or 

 oblong-lanceolate, mostly sharply serrate or 

 serrulate, acute at the apex, narrowed at the 

 base, i'-3' long, 2"-6" wide; flower-clusters 

 axillary and terminal, several or numerous; 

 bracts white or purple, conspicuous, awned at 

 the tip, the awns becoming recurved; calyx- 

 tube nearly glabrous, the throat densely villons, 

 the teeth bristle-pointed, barbed, divergent or 

 spreading, nearly half as long as the tube; 

 corolla pink or nearly white, not spotted, nearly 

 or quite glabrous, iq"-I2" long; stamens not 

 exserted. 



On dry plains, Nebraska and Colorado to 5Iis- 

 souri, Texas and Arizona. Naturalized in Tennes- 

 see (according to Gray). June-Sept. 

 Honarda clinopodioides A. Gray, a related Texan species, with a slender stem, green or greenish 

 bracts, and hirsute calyx with erect broader teeth, may occur in southern Kansas. 



