232 WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 
4. HEDEO’MA, Pers. PENNYROYAL. 
[Greek, Hedeia Osme, a pieasant odor ; from its fragrance.] 
Calyx “tanita gibbous on the under sah near the base, 13-nerved, 
3-toothed— 
bilabiate,—the y lip lower one bifid; t throat villous. 
Corolla bilabiate,- the upper lip erect, Bat lower lip spreading, 3-lo 
lobes nearly equal. Sta ing, the two upper entirely want 
1 two 
ing,—or rudimentary - sterile. Herbs with small leaves and loose ax- 
illary clusters of flowers, often forming terminal leafy racemes. 
1. H. punecior’DEs, te Leaves lance-ovate, fee's obtuse, subserrate, 
narrowed at base, petit cymules about 3-flowered. 
PuLecium-Like HepEoma. Anetta Peniphova 
Root a Stem 6-12 inches high, hoary -pubescent, branched. Leaves half 
to an inch i To, slightly p Butcee ent t petiole one-eigith iy 
half an inch in length,—the floral ‘leaves econ ha the cauline ones. 
3-flowered ; bracteoles lin cca noon olate, as long as the 
blue, with purple s spots. Stamens sca roely ex ed te , ascending, the anther app: proximated 
under the upper lip,—the y tie pair 01  matnens reduced to mere abortive ruaiaierite 
Poe sil anes old fields, : throughout the United States. Fl. July-August. Fr. 
"Ole. 7 ead angry little herb,—in gene neral use as a popular dia- 
phoretic, carminative, &c., and therefore entitled to a description by. 
which it may be certainly euuilan ized. —- not the “ Pennyroyal’” of 
Europe ; but has bee called because of its resemblance to that 
plant,—which is a oo ar tat iat the Mentha Pulegium, L. 
5. MONAR’DA, LZ. Horsz-mint. 
[Dedicated to Nicholas Monardez, a Spanish Botanist.] 
Calyx tubular, elongated, 15-nerved, nearly equally 5-toothed; throat 
usually hairy. Corolla with a slightly costed throat, and a strong- 
Desai limb ; upper lip entire, or slightly notched, erect, panne s 
the filaments ; lower lip spreading, 3-lobed, the. middle lobe narr 
and slightly notched. Stamens 2, elongated, ascending, capeatad in re 5 
throat of = Reet anthers linear, the divaricate cells confluent at 
the juncti ers large in a few whorled heads closely surrounded 
ee . Leaves ovate-lanceolate, te, acuminate, mostly rounded 
or somewhat prise a at base, the floral ones and 
cts rp i 3 
corolla smooth, much elongated, bright red; stamens exserted beyond 
the acute upper lip of the corolla. 
Oswego Tea. Bee Balm. 
igh, 4-angled, branching. somewhat 
Root pe Stem 1-2 feet hairy. Leaves 3- 
gineering and 1 Zachos wie, sone what hairy on both sid es, especially on the veins 
below ; half an inch long. Flowers in 1- “2 arly 8) wh corolia an inch and 
: a half long. 
oe West and South. July - August. 
