﻿PLATE DXLVI. 



MONARDA PUNCTATA. 



Dotted-jlowered Monarda. 



CLASS II. ORDER I. 



DUNDRIA MONOGYNIA. Two Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER, 

 bulosus, quinque-dentatus. Corolla 



. Corolla II Empalement tubular, five-toothed. Blossom 

 filamenta gaping : the upper lip linear, and enfolding 



II the threads. 



Monarda foliis lanceolatis, dentatis, minute 

 punctatis : floribus verticillatis, flavis, rubro 

 punctatis: foliis involucri ovato-lanceola- 



\:nerica Boreali. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Monarda with lance-shaped leaves, toothed, 

 and minutely dotted. Flowers grow in 

 whorls, are of a yellow colour, and dotted 

 with red : the involucrate leaves are ovately 

 lance-shaped, smooth, and flesh-coloured. 



Native of North America. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. A flower. 



2. A blossom spread open, one tip magnified 



3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 



4. Seed-bud magnified. 



The only figure of the Monarda punctata we have seen is an uncoloured one in Plukenet's Phytogra- 

 phia. It is a perfectly new species to the garden, and the only Monarda with yellow flowers at pre- 

 sent known. Its specific title is particularly applicable to its bloom, as all the species yet enumerated 

 are more or less punctured in the foliage, some so minutely as scarcely to be perceived without the aid 

 of a magnifier. It is a native of Virginia in North America, but by whom introduced we have not 

 been able to learn. Our drawing was made from plants in the nursery of Messrs. Whitley and Brames, 

 who raised it from seed last year, I8O7 ; but it did not flower till the latter part of the present summer. 

 It is a hardy perennial, and certainly a handsome addition to the genus. 



