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plant, with broader leaves; the bracts more deeply colored, 
longer, more abruptly aristate and less strongly ciliate than in 
M. Nuttali. The latter has the mid-nerve of the bracts rela- 
tively much more conspicuous than the others, and the aristate 
calyx lobes strikingly ciliate-bearded. 
M. Nuttallit is well represented by the following specimens, all from Col- 
orado: 166, Professor Francis Ramaley, Boulder, 1900; C. S .Crandadl/, Fort 
Collins, 1893; Marie Holzinger, Boulder, 1892; 614, Baker, Earle, and 
Tracy, Durango, 1898 ; 428 of the Hall and Harbour plants. 
In this connection [ would inquire why Monarda aristata Hook. should 
not be restored as a substitute for 4/7. clinopodioides Gray? 
Monarda Ramaleyi, n. n.— Rootstocks horizontal, rather 
slender, abundantly and conspicuously rootbearing: stems erect, 
or sometimes decumbent and somewhat flexuous, mostly simple 
and monocephalous, 3—6"™ high, glabrate below, softly lanately 
white-pubescent upward, densely so at the nodes, more or less 
purplish: leaves lanceolate or ovate lanceolate, broadly rounded 
or subtruncate at base, sharply but rather remotely serrate, softly 
pubescent especially below; petioles very short, less than 1™, 
the uppermost almost wanting, lanately pubescent as are also the 
midribs of the leaves: involucral leaves about 6 or, counting the 
approximated uppermost stem pair, 8, ovate, acute, entire, 2-3™ 
long, obscurely tinged with purple: floral bracts slenderly linear- 
subulate, ciliate-hispid on the margins, about 1™ long: calyx 
tubular, minutely puberulent, 8—1o™™ long, the five equal subu- 
late teeth very short and somewhat hispid-pubescent at base: 
corolla lilac-purple, softly pubescent, strongly bilabiate; the 
tube within the calyx very narrowly linear, dilating gradually 
above, the exserted portion exceeding the calyx; upper lip lin- 
ear-lanceolate, but slightly curved, 10-12™" long; lower lip 
oblong-elliptic, as long at the upper, obtuse and broadly emargi- 
nate at apex, with a short, broadly linear, cucullate, pubescent 
appendage from the notch; the appendage bidentate: stamens 
2, exserted, exceeded by the pistil. 
This species at once presents a very different appearance from the only two 
species with which it can be compared, viz., MZ. menthacfolia Graham and M. 
stricta Wooton. On Suggesting to Professor Ramaley that it was probably 
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