LABIATE. 



(MINT FAMILY.) 21.*' 



larly serrate with obtuse appressed teeth or iio.irly entire : infloresfeuce vir 

 gate-spiciform, interrupted, floral bracts very snuiU : cal<ix dveply bila(>iute: 

 corolla small, 4 lines lotifj, hardlij at all exseitrd ; lower Up little prolunqtd : 

 stale glabrous or nearlij so. — Phiins, Nebriiska to Texas and Ari/.unii. 



9. MONARDA, L. IIoRsr^-MiNx. 



Aromatic erect herbs, usually tall ; with tlie large verticilla.strate-capitato 

 glomerules single, or in upper axils, and iuvuhurate by nnnierou.s sunietinieH 

 colored outer bracts and floral leaves. 



* Heads solitary and terminal, or sometimes 2 or 3 as if proliffrous : stanirng 



and style conspicuously exseHed from the linear and mostly acute upper Up 

 of the corolla: leaves ovate-lanceolate, acutely more or less serrate. 



1. M. flstulosa, L. Soft-pubescent with sliort hairs, or sojnewliat hairy, 

 or glabrate : stem mostly with obtuse angles: bracts whitish or rarclv j»nr- 

 plish, the inner mostly hirsute-ciliate : calyx conspicuously and cU-nsely 

 bearded at the throat: corolla pubescent, at least on the upper lip, jturjde 

 or purplisli-dotted, au inch or more long. — Nearly across the continent. A 

 polynjor])lious species. 



Var. media, Gray. Corolla deep purple. — Synopt. Fl. ii. 374. Alleghany 

 and Rocky ^Mountains. 



Var. mollis, Beuth. Corolla from flesh-color to lilac, glandular, antl it.« 

 u])per lip hairy outside or more bearded at the tip : leaves paler, soft ])ul)i'.>*- 

 cent beneath: throat of the calyx mostly filled with dense beard. — Extend- 

 ing to the Saskatchewan, British Columbia, and Arizona. 



* * Heads commonly in the axils of all the upper pairs of leaves, or interrupted- 



splcate, fol'iose-hracteate : upper face of the floral leaves of en canescent and 

 purple-tinged: corolla with shorter tube, more dilated throat; the upper arch- 

 ing seldom surpassed by the stamens : leaves lanceolate or oblong, sjnirsely 

 serrate or denticulate. 



2. M. punctata, L. Stem commonly 2 feet high : floral leaves and 

 bracts (either whitened or purplish or both) of en slender acuminate, nu»stly 

 muticous : calyx-teeth lanceolate- or triangular-subulate, rigid, soon stellate- 

 spreading : corolla yellowish icith copious brown-purple siinls. — Froni Colorado 

 to Florida and New York. 



•3. M. citriodora, Cerv. Usually rather robust, the larger forms 2 or .3 

 feet high: bracts narrowly oblong, colored as in the last, with spnading or 

 recurving and slender aristate tips: calyx-teeth slender-aristiform, nt length 

 usually spreading: corolla irhite or pi})kish, not spotted, but more nr Ims puuc- 

 tn/,'. — .1/. aristata, Nutt. Plains of Nebraska to Texas, K. Colonido, and 

 Arizona. 



10. LOPHANTHUS, Beuth. 



Mostly tall and coarse herbs : with serrate petioied leaves, the lower usually 

 subcordate and the upper ovate, and small flowers in dense an.l .sessile vcTiioil- 

 lastrate glomerules, which are crowded into a termiujil *i)iko : floral leave* 



