MINT FAMILY. Labiatae. 



A handsome plant, from three to five 



eet hi S h ' with stout ' bnuiching stems, 

 usually smooth, sometimes hairy, and 

 (Lophanthus) smoothish, dark green leaves. The small 

 pink flowers have a green calyx, with mauve 



teeth, a white or pale violet corolla, and 

 long, protruding stamens, with lilac 

 anthers. They are crowded in spikes, from two to six 

 inches long, and the whole effect is rather bright purplish- 

 pink, feathery and pretty. This has a strong aromatic 

 smell and grows along the edges of meadows and is abun- 

 dant in Yosemite at moderate altitudes, but in other places 

 reaches an altitude of over eight thousand feet and is 

 found as far east as Colorado. A. pallidiflora, 

 greenish-white calyxes and white corollas, too dull 

 color to be pretty, grows in the Grand Canyon and 

 New Mexico and Colorado. 



There are several kinds of Monarda, all North American; 

 aromatic herbs; leaves toothed; flowers crowded in heads, 

 usually with bracts, which are sometimes colored; calyx 

 tubular, with five teeth, often hairy inside; corolla more or 

 less hairy outside, two-lipped, upper lip erect or arched, 

 sometimes notched, lower lip spreading and three-lobed, 

 the middle lobe larger; stamens two, with swinging 

 anthers, sometimes also two rudimentary stamens; nutlets 

 smooth. These plants are called Balm, Bergamot, and 

 Horse-mint. 



This is handsome when growing in 

 ^, ors f-f int . masses, though the flowers are not 



Monarda pecti- . . . 



ntita (M. cit- sufficiently positive in color. It grows 

 riodora in part) from one to three feet high, with a stout, 

 P ink roughish stem, sometimes branching, and 



Arh^Utah etc leaves which are thin and soft in texture 

 with a dull surface, but not rough, and 



more or less toothed. The flowers are nearly an inch long 

 and project from crowded heads of conspicuous purplish 

 bracts, tipped with bristles. The calyx is very hairy inside, 

 the lobes tipped with long bristles, and the corolla is pale 

 pink, lilac, or almost white, not spotted, with a very wide 

 open, yawning mouth, the stamens and the curling tips of 

 the pistil protruding from under the upper lip. This 

 grows on dry plains, especially in sandy soil, as far east as 

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