MONARDA 



MONOCILETUM 



2061 



2383. Monarda didyma. ( X X) 



bedding plant they would be inferior to Salvia coccinea, 

 the flowers being shorter-lived. The white- and rose- 

 colored varieties are less desirable. M. fistulosa is the 

 same type of plant, and is procurable in colors ranging 

 from white, flesh-color and lilac, through rose and crim- 

 son to deep purple, but not scarlet. This species is very 

 variable in height. The 

 lighter-colored varie- 

 ties are usually less 

 robust. 



Monardas are easy 

 of culture, thriving in 

 any good soil. They 

 spread quickly, and 

 therefore need fre- 

 quent separation, 

 which operation is best 

 done in the spring, as 

 plants disturbed in 

 autumn will often win- 

 ter-kill. 



A. Calyx slightly hairy 



at the throat. 

 didyma, Linn. (M. 

 Kalmiana, Pursh. M. 

 coccinea, Hort.). Os- 

 WEGO TEA. BEE-BALM. 

 FRAGRANT BALM. Fig. 

 2383. St. acutely 4-an- 

 gled: Ivs. thin, ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate. 

 B.M. 145 (erroneously as M.fistulosa var.), and 546. 

 R.B. 26:49. G.W. 14, p. 618. Vars. alba and rdsea, Hort., 

 are offered, but the latter should be compared with the 

 next species. In 1893 John Saul advertised M. Kal- 

 miana as if horticulturally distinct, calling it the finest 

 of monardas. Var. salmonea, Perry. Large heads of 

 delicate shade of salmon-pink. Suited to moister posi- 

 tions than the others. 



AA. Calyx densely bearded at the throat. 

 B. Lvs. petioled. 



fistulosa. Linn. WILD BERGAMOT. Sometimes called 

 bergamot in nursery catalogues, but the bergamot of 

 the Old World is Mentha odorata. St. mostly obtusely 

 angled: Ivs. firmer: fls. purple, usually not so numerous 

 as M. didyma. July, later than M. didyma. Var. 

 rilbra, Gray. Fls. crimson or rosy red. Var. media, 

 Gray (var. purpurea, Hort.). Fls. deep purple. Var. 

 purpftrea, Pursh. The deep purplish crimson fls. are 

 smaller. L.B.C. 14:1396. Var. mollis, Benth. (M. 

 mollis, Linn.). Fls. flesh-color to lilac. B.M. 2958 (as 

 M. menthsefolia) . Will grow in dry positions. 



Ramaleyi, A. Nelson. Similar to M. fistulosa but 

 softly and lanately white-pubescent, densely so at the 

 nodes: Ivs. lanceolate or narrowly ovate; petioles short, 

 lanately pubescent as are also the midribs of the Ivs. : 

 involucral Ivs. scarcely purple-tinged : corolla lavender. 

 Cent. Colo. This species is catalogued as being dwarf, 

 1-2 ft., bearing bright clover-red fls. 



BB. Lvs. nearly sessile, at least below. 

 Bradburiana, Beck. Fls. light purple, spotted darker 

 on the middle lobe of the lower lip, which is much 

 larger than the lateral ones. June. Ind. to Tenn. and 

 Kans. B.M. 3310 (erroneously as M. fistidosa flore- 

 maculata). Will grow in dry positions. 



WILHELM MILLER. 



A. C. HoTTES.f 



MONARDELLA (diminutive of Monarda, having its 

 aspect, inflorescence and calyx). Labidtee. Annual or 

 perennial sweet-smelling herbs, natives of California. 



Leaves entire or obscurely toothed: fls. rose, red, 

 purple, or rarely, white, compacted in terminal heads 

 with an involucre; calyx tubular, narrow or long, 10-13- 



nerved, 5-toothed; the teeth short, straight and nearly 

 equal; the throat naked within; stamens 4, exserted. 

 About 15 species closely allied to Pycnanthemum and 

 Origanum. The plants are best prop, by division in the 

 spring. They prefer a sandy soil. The following have 

 been advertised, and can be secured through western 

 collectors. 



A. Fls. large, few, rather loosely glomerate. 



macrantha, Gray. Perennial, tufted, about 9 in. high : 

 bracts of the 10-25-fld. head sometimes whitish or pur- 

 plish tinged: corolla about \Y<i in. long, glabrous, 

 orange-red, its tube fully twice the length of the calyx; 

 the lobes lanceolate. S. Calif. 



nana, Gray. Pubescent: 9 in. high: bracts whitish or 

 rose-color: fls. smaller than M. macrantha; corolla less 

 than an inch long, white tinged with rose, the slender 

 tube pubescent. S. Calif., in mountains near 3an 

 Diego. 



AA. Fls. smaller, more numerous, densely capitate. 



B. Plants perennial. 



villosa, Benth. Soft-pubescent, or the heads and lower 

 face of Ivs. villous, or sometimes the whole herbage 

 glabrate, 9-12 in. high: Ivs. ovate, all petioled; veins 

 conspicuous, widely spreading. Woods and banks. W. 

 Calif., especially along coast. Farther inland is a form 

 (var. interior, Jeps.) with coarsely toothed Ivs. and 

 large heads. 



odoratissima, Benth. Cinereous-puberulent, or 

 nearly glabrous: 9-12 in. tall: Ivs. narrowly oblong to 

 broadly lanceolate, entire or nearly so, short-petioled, 

 or the upper subsessile, firm in texture; veins incon- 

 spicuous: bracts thin-membranaceous and colored 

 (whitish or purple). Dry hills, Wash., Ore., and through 

 higher mountains of Calif., Nev., Utah. Odor of 

 pennyroyal. 



BB. Plants annual, 

 c. Corolla rose-red or purple. 



lanceolita, Gray. Lvs. oblong-lanceolate or narrower,, 

 tapering into a slender petiole: corolla rose-color or 

 purple: bracts leafy. Calif. 



cc. Corolla white or nearly so, small and short. 

 candicans, Benth. Lvs. lanceolate or narrowly 

 oblong, tapering into a slender petiole : bracts minutely 

 pubescent outside, greenish along numerous nerves. 

 Calif. A. C. HoTTES.f 



MONELLA: Cyrtanthus. 



MONESES (Greek, single delight; from the pretty 

 solitary fl.). Pyrolacese. ONE-FLOWERED PYROLA. One 

 species, a low perennial herb: st. decumbent: Ivs. 

 roundish, clustered at base: fls. single, drooping, from 

 top of slender scape 2-6 in. long, white or rose-colored, 6 

 lines across; petals 5, widely spreading, orbicular; 

 filaments awl-shaped, naked; anthers as in Pyrola, but 

 conspicuously 2-horned. M. uniflora, Gray (M. grandi- 

 flora, S. F. Gray. Pyrola uniflora, Linn.), grows in 

 moist cold woodlands from Labrador to Alaska, in 

 middle states and westward along the mountains. It 

 has been offered among native plants. 



MONEYWORT, or CREEPING CHARLIE, is Lysimachia 



Nummularia . 



MONKEY-FLOWER: Mimultis Meus. 

 MONKEY-PUZZLE: Araucaria imbricata. 

 MONKSHOOD: Aconitum. 



MONOCILETUM (one bristle, referring to the con- 

 nective). Melastomacese. Shrubs and subshrubs of 

 tropical America, suitable for glasshouse culture, little 

 grown. 



