376 LABIATE. Blephilia. 



31. BLEPHfLIA, Raf. (From ^Ucpagig, the eye-lash, suggested by the 

 conspicuously ciliate bracts, &c.) — Perenuial herbs, of the Atlantic United 

 States, resembling 3fonarda in foliage, &c., but with smaller verticillastrate-capi- 

 tate glomerules, the upper more spicate ; and small purple or bluish-white corolla, 

 with the lower lip darker-spotted : fl. summer. 



B. ciliata, Raf. Stem a foot or two high, often simple, downy with short soft pubes- 

 cence : leaves short-petioled, oblong, obtuse, obscurely serrate ; the upper sessile and 

 mostly narrowed at base ; lower floral siijiilar, uppermost and outer bracts of the mostly 

 spicate-approximate heads ovate, cuspidate-acuminate, chartaceo-membranaceous, some- 

 what colored, strongly ciliate, conspicuously many-nerved from a stout midrib, about 

 equalling the calyx : corolla villous-pubescent outside, purple. — Jour. Phys. Ixxxix. 98 ; 

 Benth. Lab. 319 & DC. Prodr. xii. 364. Monarda ciliata, L. Spec. i. 23 (Pluk. Aim. t. 164, 

 fig. 3; Moris. Hist. iii. sect. 11, t. 8, fig. 6.) — Dry ground, Penn. (and recently at Hadley, 

 Mass. ), to Wisconsin, Georgia, and Missouri. Varies westward with more villous pubescence. 



B. hirsuta, Benth. 1. c. Taller, loosely branching, villous-hirsute : leaves slender-peti- 

 oled, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, with rounded or subcordate base ; lower floral 

 similar, subtending remote heads ; upper floral and the bracts lanceolate and linear, subu- 

 late or aristate, few-nerved, hirsute with long hairs, as is the calyx : corolla less pubes- 

 cent, pale, with some conspicuous dark spots. — B. nepetoides, Raf. 1. c. Monarda hirsuta, 

 Pursh, Fl. i. 19. M. ciliata, Michx. Fl. i. 16, not L. — Moist shady places, Canada and 

 "Vermont to Wisconsin, south to Missouri and E. Texas, and through the Alleghanies to 

 Georgia. 



32. LOPHANTHUS, Benth. {A6(fog, crest, and avOog, flower: appli- 

 cation not evident.) — Perennial erect herbs (of N. America and N. E. Asia), 

 mostly tall and coarse ; with serrate and veiny petioled leaves, the lower usually 

 subcordate and the upper ovate, and small flowers in dense and sessile verticillas- 

 trate glomerules, which are congested into a terminal spike, either continuous or 

 interrupted below : floral leaves reduced to short ovate and acuminate bracts. 

 Nutlets minutely hairy or glandular at the top. Fl. summer. — Bot. Reg. xv. & 

 Lab. 462. Agastache, Clayt., Gronov. Virg. ed. 2, 88. 



* Calyx-teeth green and herbaceous, ovate, obtuse : corolla greenish-yellow, almost included. 



L. nepetoides, Benth. 1- c. Glabrous or barely puberulent: stem '2^ to 5 feet high, 

 acute-angled: leaves ovate, acute : spike cylindrical, linear, nearly continuous. — Hyssopus 

 nepetoides, L. Spec. ii. 569 ; Jacq. Vind. t. 69. — Borders of woods, Vermont and Connecti- 

 cut to Wisconsin, and south to mountains of Carolina and Texas. 



* * Calyx-teeth acute, membranaceous, more or less colored : corolla purplish or bluish, more con- 

 spicuous. 



L. scrophularisefolius, Benth. 1. c. Stem 4 to 6 feet high, sjtout -. leaves ovate or the 

 lower cordate, acuminate, more or less pubescent or glabrous : spikes thickish, mostly 

 interrupted, 4 to 16 inches long: calyx-teeth ovate-lanceolate, acute, whitish : corolla dull 

 purplish. — H. scrophularicefolius, Willd. Spec. iii. 48. — Borders of thickets, New York to 

 Wisconsin, Kentucky, and mountains of N. Carolina. 



L. anisatus, Benth. 1- c. Glabrous or very minutely puberulent, 2 or 3 feet high : leaves 

 ovate, often subcordate, canescent beneath, anisate-scented when crushed : spike short and 

 narrow, interrupted, sometimes leafy below and paniculate : calyx canescently puberu- 

 lent ; the teeth ovate-lanceolate and merely acute, tinged with purple or violet : corolla 

 blue. — Bot. Reg. t. 1282. Hyssopus anisatus, Nutt. Gen. ii. 27. II. discolor, Desf. Cat. Par. 

 Stackys fceniculum, Pursh, Fl. ii. 407. — Plains, Wisconsin to Saskatchewan, the northern 

 Rocky Mountains, and Nebraska. 



L. urticifolius, Benth. 1. c. Like the last, but leaves green both sides, mostly crenate 

 and more or less cordate, sweet-aromatic : calyx-teeth lanceolate, subulate-acuminate : 

 corolla light violet or purplish. — Western slopes of RockyMountains to Oregon, Nevada, 

 and California. 



