72 MIDDLESEX FLORA. 



COLLINSONIA, L. 



C. Canadensis, L. RICH-WEED. STONE-ROOT. 

 Ashby (L. L. Dame); Dracut (Dr. C. W. Swan). Rare. July- 

 Aug. 



SAL VIA, L. 



8. tilicefolia, Vahl. 



Cambridge, rubbish-heap, 1885 (Walter Deane ; specimen in herb, 

 of). Adv. from S. America. 



"Stem herbaceous, erect, smoothish or slightly pubescent, leaves 

 broadly ovate, crenate, truncate or sub-cordate at the base, softly 

 wrinkled and pubescent, with scattered hairs; the floral leaves 

 membranaceous, lanceolate, deciduous ; racemes simple ; whorls 

 loose, approximate, 6-10 flowered; calyx tubular with ciliate 

 nerves; teeth 3, ovate-lanceolate, acute; corolla scarcely exceed- 

 ing the calyx; lobes of the style subequal, subulate, or the upper 

 longer; corolla blue." DC. Prodr. XII, p. 299. 



MONARDA, L. 



*M. didyma, L. OSWEGO TEA. 



Concord, escaped (Minot Pratt) ; Framingham (Rev. J. H. 

 Temple) . Rare. July. Adv. from farther West. 



M. fistulosa, L. BERGAMOT. 



Lowell (Dr. C. W. Swan) ; Medford and Winchester (Mrs. P. D. 

 Richards) ; Melrose (Rev. Thos. Morong) ; Concord, introduced 

 from 111. by Minot Pratt. Rare. July-Aug. A form with crim- 

 son flowers, approaching var. rubra has been reported at Littleton, 

 a possible hybrid. 



M. fistulosa, L., var. mollis, Benth. 

 Lowell (Dr. C. W. Swan). July-Aug. 



"Corolla from flesh-color to lilac, glandular, and its upper lip hairy 

 outside, or more bearded at the tip: leaves paler, soft-pubescent 

 beneath, often shorter petioled." Syn. Fl. N". A. 



BLEPHILIA, Raf . 

 B. ciliata, Raf. 



Ashland (Rev. Thos. Morong; specimen in herb. of). Very rare 

 in New England, common farther south. June-July. 



LOPHANTHUS, Benth. 

 *L. anisatus, Benth. 

 Concord, introduced from Wisconsin by Minot Pratt. 



NEPETA, L. 



N. CATARIA, L. CATNIP. 



Common. Roadsides, and occasionally scattered over adjacent 

 pastures. July-Aug. JS"at. from Eu. 



