260 Botany of Ilinois and Missouri. 
Hedeoma hirta Nutt. 
Root annual. Stem 4 to 6 inches high, branching at the 
base, pubescent. Leaves linear, sub-lanceolate, acutish at 
both extremities, entire, and veined. Bracts ciliate, Calyx 
po gg lowers in whorls, minute, shorter than the 
calyx 
yx. 
Has. Onthe rocky banks of the Mississippi, in company 
with the last. According to Mr. Nuttall, it is also found on the 
open alluvions of the Missoun, July. 
Monarda Bradburiana.* 
Root perennial. Stem about three feet high, simple, quad- 
rangular, solid, smooth, except at the joints, and on the 
gles towards the top. Leaves opposite, sessile, or on ve 
short ciliate petioles, hairy on both sides, oblong-lanceolate, 
dentate, rounded at the base. Outer bracts broad-lanceolate, 
ciliate, coloured. Calyx hairy, very densely bearded at the 
throat, terminating in five subulate, slivasibads teeth, which are 
more than an eighth of an inch long; teeth and upper part of 
the calyx coloured. Heads of flowers large, terminal. Co- 
rolla large, deeply divided into two lips ; upper one narrow, 
curved, enclosing the stamens, and about the same length, 
very villose at the end, pale purple; lower lip broad, with 
pe s 
ne 
pots. Sessile-leaved Monarda. 
Has. Barrens north of St. Louis. July. 
1 have named this beautiful and very distinct spe- 
cies, in honour of the late John Bradbury, F. L. S.,as a tri- 
bute to the memory of a highly valued friend, and distinguish- 
ed botanist. : 
Monarda scabra.* 
somewhat hairy. Bracts ovate-lanceolate. Flowers in large 
— terminal heads, which are somewhat in threes. Calyx 
half an inch in length, hirsute, very densely bearded at the 
roat, terminating in short acute teeth, nearly straight. 
€orolla hirsute, pale purple ; upper lip straight, about the 
length of the stamens. Rough-leaved Monarda, 
4B. Woods on the banks of the Mississippi river, one 
mile north of St, Louis, July—August. 
