WILD FLOWERS PINK 



The tube is lined with an oblique ring of hairs. Leo- 

 nurus is Greek, meaning lion's tail, and presumably 

 alludes to the brushy, tail-like branches. Mother- 

 wort may be found from June to September, from 

 Nova Scotia to North Carolina, Minnesota and 

 Nebraska. It has become naturalized from Europe. 



WILD BERQAMOT 



Monarda fistulosa. Mint Family. 



This species, which bears several floral heads, is 

 quite similar to the Oswego Tea. The flowers are 

 cream-coloured, pink or purplish, however, and the 

 plant is found on dry hillsides and in thickets. It is 

 a slender-stemmed, much-branched perennial, growing 

 two or three feet high. The fragrant, slender-stemmed, 

 lance-shaped leaves are toothed and veined, and are 

 frequently heart-shaped at the base. The some- 

 what flattened flower heads are surrounded with a row 

 of whitish or purplish leafy bracts. The calyx is 

 densely hairy at the throat. The corolla is hairy, 

 especially on the upper lip. The arrangement of 

 the leaves and the manner of this plant's growth 

 is practically covered in the general description 

 of the Oswego Tea. This genera was dedicated 

 to Nicholas Monardes, a Spanish physician and 

 botanist, who published a book, in 1571, con- 

 taining the earliest pictures of an American plant. 

 According to Thistleton Dyer, there is a notion 

 prevalent in Dorsetshire that a house wherein the 

 plant Bergamot is kept will never be free from 



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