260 GARDEN FLOWERS. 



slender, free-growing creepers, often grown in a greenhouse? 

 or in sheltered places out doors in summer. The fruit is the 

 remarkable part of the plant ; and this, which is highly col- 

 ored orange, splits when ripe, and turns back like a Turk's- 

 cap lily, the deep red seeds attached to its inner surface 

 looking like crimson spots. Sow in a hot-bed in April, in 

 light rich soil, and treat like a cucumber. They are desira- 

 ble for rafters of a stove. The species referred to are M. 

 balsamina and chara?itia, both growing ten or twelve feet in 

 length, and covering a considerable surface. The flowers are 

 yellow, small, and inconspicuous. Both are natives of India. 



MoNARDA. [Lamiaces.] Handsome hardy herbaceous 

 perennials, the plants having an odor compared to Berga- 

 mot. They are increased by division of the root, and flour- 

 ish in the ordinary soil of gardens, preferring a cool and 

 rather moist situation. 



M. didyma (Oswego tea) ; hardy perennial ; 3 feet ; flowers 

 scarlet, in June ; North America ; 1752. M. fistulosa (hollow) ; 

 hardy perennial ; 4 feet ; flowers purple or red, in June ; North 

 America; 1656. M. Kahniana (Kalm's) ; hardy perennial; 4 

 feet ; flowers purple, in June ; North America ; 1813. M. punc- 

 tata (dotted); hardy perennial; 18 inches; flowers yellowish, 

 dotted with brown, in June; Virginia; 1714. M. purpurea 

 (purple) ; hardy perennial ; 3 feet ; flowers purple, in June ; 

 North America; 1789. 



Moneywort. See Lysimachia. 



Monkey-Flower. See Mimulus. 



Monkshood. See Aconitum. 



Monolopia. [Compositae.] Prett}' hardy annuals. Good 

 garden soil. Increased by seeds. 



M. major (greater) ; hardy annual ; 3 feet ; flowers yellow, in 

 July; California; 1834. 



This plant was formerly called Heleniuin Douglasii. 



