260 ts — Botany of Illinois and Missouri. 
Hedeoma hirta Nwt t. 
Root annual. Stem 4 to 6 inches high, branching at the 
base, pubescent. Leaves linear, sub-lanceolate, acutish at 
both extremities, entire, and veined. Bracts ciliate. Calyx 
strigose. _ Flowers in whorls, minute, shorter than the 
calyx. 
Hap. On the rocky banks of the Mississippi, in company 
with the last. According to Mr. Nuttall, it is also found on the 
open alluvions of the Missouri. July. 
Monarda Bradburiana.* 
Root perennial. Stem about three feet high, simple, quad- 
rangular, solid, smooth, except at the joints, and on the an- 
gles towards the top. Leaves opposite, sessile, or on very 
short ciliate petioles, hairy on both sides, oblong-lanceolate, 
dentate, rounded at the base. Outer bracts broad-lanceolate, 
ciliate, coloured. Calyx hairy, very densely bearded at the 
throat, terminating in five subulate, divaricate teeth, which are 
more than an eighth of an inch long; teeth and upper part of 
the calyx coloured. Heads of flowers large, terminal. Co- 
rolla large, deeply divided into two lips ; upper one narrow, 
curved, enclosing the stamens, and about the same length, 
very villose at the end, pale purple; lower lip broad, with 
darker spots. Sessile-leaved Monarda. 
Has. Barrens north of St. Louis. July. 
Oss. I have named this beautiful and very distinct spe- 
cies, in honour of the late John Bradbury, F. L. S., as a tri- 
bute to the memory ofa highly valued friend, and distinguish- 
ed botanist. y 
Monarda scabra.* 
Root perennial. Stem obtuse-angled, smoothish, three 
fect high, branching. Leaves from 2 to 23 inches long, 
ovate-lanceolate, sub-cordate, serrate, revolute on the margin, 
scabrous, thick, punctate, opposite, on short hairy petioles, 
somewhat hairy. Bracis ovate-lanceolate. lowers in large 
simple terminal heads, which are somewhat in threes. Calyx 
half an inch in length, hirsute, very densely bearded at the 
throat, terminating in short acute teeth, nearly straight. 
Corolla hirsute, pale purple; upper lip straight, about the 
Jencth of the stamens. Rough-leaved Monarda. 
Has. Woods on the banks of the Mississippi river, one 
mile north of St. Louis. July—August. 
