GENUS 24. MINT FAMILY. 133 
5. Monarda mollis L. Pale Wild Berga- 
mot. Fig. 3640. 
Monarda mollis L. Amoen. 'Acad. 3: 399. 1787. 
Monarda scabra Beck, Am. Journ. Sci. 10: 260. 1826. 
Perennial; stem slender, puberulent at least 
above, usually branched, 1°-33° high. Leaves 
thick or firm, pale, usually short-petioled, acumi- 
nate or acute at the apex, rounded, narrowed or 
cordate at the base, sharply or sparingly serrate, 
canescent or puberulent, rarely nearly glabrous, 
sometimes with a few scattered spreading hairs 
on the veins or petiole, 1’-33’ long, 4-1’ wide; 
flower-clusters terminal, solitary; bracts green or 
slightly pink, calyx puberulent, often hairy at the 
summit, densely villous in the throat, its short 
pointed teeth nearly erect; corolla yellowish, 
lilac or pink, about 12’ long, pubescent, some- 
times glandular; stamens exserted. 
On prairies and plains, mostly in dry soil, Maine to 
Ontario, British Columbia, Alabama, Nebraska, Mis- 
souri, Texas and Colorado. June-Aug. 
6. Monarda Bradburiana Beck. Brad- 
bury Monarda. Fig. 3641. 
Monarda Bradburiana Beck, Am. Journ. Sci. 10: 
260. 1826. 
Perennial, sparingly villous or glabrate; 
stem slender, often simple, 1°-2° high. Leaves 
rather thin, bright green, ovate or ovate-lan- 
ceolate, sessile, or very nearly so, or partly 
clasping by the cordate or subcordate base, 
acuminate at the apex, serrate, 2’-33’ long; 
flower-clusters solitary and terminal; bracts 
green or purplish; calyx glabrous outside, hir- 
sute within and narrowed at the throat, its 
teeth long, bristle-pointed, divergent, longer 
than the diameter of the tube; corolla pink or 
nearly white, about 1’ long, its upper lip pu- 
bescent or puberulent, the lower commonly 
purple-spotted; stamens exserted. 
On dry hills or in thickets, Indiana to Alabama, 
west to Kansas and Arkansas. May-July. 
7. Monarda punctata L. Horse-mint. 
Fig. 3642. 
Monarda punctata L. Sp. Pl. 22. 1753. 
Perennial, usually rather densely pubescent or 
downy; stem usually much branched, 2°-3° high. 
Leaves lanceolate, linear-lanceolate or narrowly 
oblong, serrate with low teeth, or nearly entire, 
usually acute at both ends, green, manifestly peti- 
oled, 1-3’ long, 2-7” wide, often with smaller 
ones fascicled in their axils; flower-clusters axil- 
lary and terminal, numerous; bracts white or 
purplish, conspicuous, acute; calyx puberulent, 
villous in the throat, its teeth short, triangular- 
lanceolate, acute, not longer than the diameter 
of the tube; corolla yellowish, purple-spotted, 
about 1’ long, the stamens equalling or slightly 
surpassing its pubescent upper lip. 
In dry fields, southern New York to Florida, west 
to Minnesota, Kansas and Texas. Rignum. July—Oct. 
