WILD FLOWERS PINK 
The tube is lined with an oblique ring of hairs. Leo- 
nurus is Greek, meaning lion’s tail, and presumably 
alludes to the brushy, tail-like branches. Mother- 
wort may be found from June to September, from 
Nova Scotia to North Carolina, Minnesota and 
Nebraska. It has become naturalized from Europe. 
WILD BERGAMOT 
Mondrda fistuldsa. Mint Family. 
This species, which bears several floral heads, is 
quite similar to the Oswego Tea. The flowers are 
cream-coloured, pink or purplish, however, and the 
plant is found on dry hillsides and in thickets. It is 
a slender-stemmed, much-branched perennial, growing 
two or three feet high. The fragrant, slender-stemmed, 
lance-shaped leaves are toothed and veined, and are 
frequently heart-shaped at the base. The some- 
what flattened flower heads are surrounded with a row 
of whitish or purplish leafy bracts.. The calyx is 
densely hairy at the throat. The corolla is hairy, 
especially on the upper lip. The arrangement of 
the leaves and the manner of this plant’s growth 
is practically covered in the general description 
of the Oswego Tea. ‘This genera was dedicated 
to Nicholas Monardes, a Spanish physician and 
botanist, who published a book, in 1571, con- 
taining the earliest pictures of an American plant. 
According to Thistleton Dyer, there is a notion 
prevalent in Dorsetshire that a house wherein the 
plant Bergamot is kept will never be free from 
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