602 ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS 



Plant hirsute. Root perennial. StemQ to 13 inches high, mostly erect, brachiate •■ 

 \y branching, obtusely angled, with the sides channelled, rotrorsoly hirsute. 

 Leaves 1 to 2 inches long, and half an inch to an inch wide, more or less ovate- 

 lanceolate, and serrate, with an entire cuneately tapering base (sometimes ovate, 

 aud rounded at base), punctate, hairy ; petioles I third to half an inch long, hir- 

 sute. Flowers in axillary sub-fasciculate cymes, appearing vcrticillate, often ste- 

 rile ; common peduncle mostly shorter than the pedicels ; pedicels smooth ; bracts 

 subulate-lanceolate, hairy. Cuhjx tubular-campanulate, ribbed, and hirsute Co- 

 rolla pale blue, or bluish-purple. Stamens exserted, often abortive or wanting. 

 Hub. Road-sides, near West Chester : not common. Ft. July* Pr\ Sept. 



Obs. This is a very variable species,— with considerable general resemblance 

 to M. canadensis ; but is remarkable for its peculiar odor,— which has been com- 

 pared to that of mouldy cheese, I was mistaken in supposing this foreigner to 

 have become extinct. Mr. Joshua Houses finds it still nourishing near the olU 

 locality, about half a mile S. West of the Borough. 



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273* (480.). BLEPEKMA. Baf. Benth. Lab. p. 319. 

 [Perhaps from the Gr. Dlepharis, an eye-lash ; in reference to the ciliate bracts*.] 



Calyx tubular, sub-cylindric, elongated, striate (13-nervcd), bilabiate; 

 upper lip S-toothed, lower lip shorter, bidentatc ; throat naked within. 

 Corolla ringent ; lips sub-equal ; upper lip erect, oblong, entire, lower 

 lip spreading, 3-lobed, the lateral lobes roundish-ovate, the middle lobe 

 narrower, oblong, emarginate ; tube slender, somewhat exserted. Stam^ 

 ens 2, exserted ; anthers 2-celled ; cells divaricate at base, connate at 

 apex* 



1. B. ciliata, Raf. Leaves lance-ovate and ovate-oblong, paler or 

 canescent beneath, subscssile ; outer bracts ovate, ciliate, colored, a* 

 long as the calyx. Benth. I. c. 



Monarda ciliata. WiUd. Sp. Up. 126. Ait. Ke-w. Up. 52. Muhl'f 

 Catal.p. 3. Pursh, Am. Up. 10. Nutt. Gen. Up. 17. Ell. Sk. Up. 

 30. Lindl. Ency. />• 22. Eat. Man. p. 229. Not of Mx. nor Pen. 



Ciliate Blephilia.. 



Root perennial. Stem 1 to near 2 feet high, erect, simple, often several from the » 

 same root, square, often purple above, clothed with a short roughish pubescence, 

 which is longer at the joints, and rctrorsc on the angles. Leaves 1 to 2 or 2 and 

 a half inches long, and half an inch to an inch wide, in rather distant opposite 

 pairs, lance-ovate, or ovate-oblong, tapering to the apex but often rather obtuse 

 (the lower ones smaller and sub-orbicular), serrate-denticulate, abruptly narrowed 

 (often rather rounded) at base, rugose-nerved, the upper surface green and minute- 

 ly roughish-pubescent, paler and more pubescent beneath, somewhat hairy on the 

 nerves ; upper petioles very short, the lower ones near half an inch long, ciliate- 

 pubescent. Flowers on very short pedicels, in dense sub-globose verticils ; verti* 

 tils all distinct, the lower one distant, the upper ones approximated into a spike ; 

 bracts greenish-white, conspicuously ciliate, as long as the calyx,— the outer ones 

 ovate, acute or acuminate, prominently nerved, smoothish, or very minutely pu- 

 bescent, the inner ones narrower, varying from lance-linear to subulate. Calyx 

 about 1 third of an inch long, smoothish and green below, hairy and purplish at 

 ft«mmit; tube a, little curved, and slightly ventricose; teeth subulate, tipt with 

 bristly hairs, the 3 upper teeth longer than the 2 lower ones. Corolla violet or 



