CLASS II. ORDER I. 



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These plants have much popular reputation as a temporary 

 remedy in haemoptysis, a disease which it is more easy to arrest 

 for a time, than to prevent permanently. 



13. MONARDA. 



MoNARDA ALLOPHYLLA. Mich. Soft Monarda. 



Leaves oblong, sharply serrate; head terminal; 

 calyx bearded at the edge; corollas slender, elon- 

 gated. 

 Syn. Monarda oblongata. Ait. 



Stem square, commonly purple or spotted, two feet high ; 

 leaves soft and downy, dotted under a magnifier, rounded at 

 base, serrate on the sides, entire towards the point. Petioles 

 and smaller branches downy. Bractes and calyxes ciliate. 

 Flowers, in terminal heads, blue or flesh colored. Corolla 

 downy, upper lip linear, lower lip with two lateral lobes and a 

 linear middle segment. Style longer than the stamens; stigma 

 bifid. — Chelsea beach island. Waltham. — July, August.— Pe- 

 rennial. — The taste of the whole plant resembles that of thyme. 



A second variety has deep purple flowers and bractes of the 

 same color; leaves a little more villous. This appears to be the 

 M. Kalmiana of Pursh. I am inclined with Michaux to con- 

 sider many of the supposed species as mere varieties. 



14. CUNILA. 

 Subgenus Hedeoma. Calyx gibbous at base — fertile stamens as 

 long as the corolla. 

 Cunila PULEGioiDES. L. Pennyroyal. 



Leaves oblong, few toothed ; flowers whorled. 



Syn. Hedeoma pulegioides. Pers. 



A well known pungent and strong scented plant. Leaves op- 

 posite ; lanceolate-oval, with a few teeth on each side. Flowers 

 in numerous whorls ; calyxes with the upper lip ending in three 

 points, the lower in two bristles. 



This plant, having found its way into England, was described 

 as a new species of mint, under the name of mentha exigua, 

 until Dr. Smith detected the error. 



In dry grounds. — July, August. — Annual. 



