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conspicuously above the snow during the winter days, and in a 

 sense and reality that only a few select other plants do, stand as 

 memorials of a vanished autumn and give a definite character, an 

 almost piquant personality to featureless stretches of snow. 



655. HORSE-MINT 



MONARDA PUNCTATA L. 



Found only on the wide sandy stretch back of the icehouses and 

 between the lake and Culver. Here it was quite common. The 

 lurid mottled flowers and showy white or purplish bracts make it 

 an unusually conspicuous plant. It thrives best in dry shifty sand. 



656. PENNYROYAL 



HEDEOMA PULEGIOIDES (L.) Pers. 



Common in woodlands, as on Long Point and Green's woods by 

 Lost Lake. Patches of this plant are perhaps more conspicuous 

 in winter than at any other time when the leafless, fruit bearing 

 stems project above the snow, still retaining something of the 

 pleasant odor which the plant possesses in summer. 



657. MOUNTAIN-MINT 



KOELLIA VIRGINIANA (L.) MacM. 



Rather common about low flat plains like those about the Inlet 

 and by Lost Lake. Found south of Winfield's and in flat ground 

 near the tamarack west of the lake. Rather pleasantly fragrant. 



658. NARROW-LEAVED MOUNTAIN-MINT 



KOELLIA FLEXUOSA (Walt.) MacM. 



We have no notes on this species, and it did not come frequently 

 under observation. However, we have an herbarium specimen, 

 and it is rather abundant along the railroad about one and a half 

 miles north near Hibbard. It is probably rather common in dry 

 hills some distance back from the lake. 



659. CUT-LEAVED WATER HOARHOUND 



LYCOPUS AMERICANUS Muhl. 



Rather common along the west shore of Lake Maxinkuckee and 

 other moist places, as about the edge of Lost Lake on the east 

 side. The plant is quite conspicuous in winter when the leafless 

 stalks are surrounded by the globular clusters of calyces enclosing 

 the fruit. 



