4U FLORA OF TEXAS. 



leaves chiefly radical, spreading, lyrate-pinnatifid, mostly 

 discolored; stem-leaves 2 or 4, smaller, the upper pair lan- 

 ceolate and entire ; raceme many-flowered ; whorls 6-flow- 

 ered, distant in fruit, longer than the ovate-lanceolate 

 bracts ; upper lip of the bell-shaped calyx truncate, with 

 short erect teeth ; coroUa-iwho. elongated, widening upward, 

 the middle lobe of the lower lip dilated and notched. Stem 

 1° high ; leaves 3-6' long, commonly pui-ple beneath ; ra- 

 cemes in fruit 6'-12' long ; corolla 9"-12" long, blue, white- 

 spotted in the throat. 



MONARDA, L. Horse-mint. 



Calyx tubular, elongated, 15-nerved, nearly equally 

 5-toothed, bearded in the throat; corolla nearly equally 

 2-lipped, the upper lip notched or entire, the lower 

 3-toothed; stamens 2, ascending under the upper lip, and 

 oftener exserted ; anther-cells linear, diverging, confluent ; 

 nutlets smooth. — Herbs ; leaves undivided; zvhorls large, 

 dense-flowered; bracts colored. 



* Upper lip of the corolla linear, acute. 



M. DIDYMA, L. Stein smoothish ; leaves ovate-lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, serrate, rounded at the base, petioled, 

 smooth or hispid ; whorls mostly solitary, terminal ; calyx 

 smooth, incurved ; corolla large, bright red. Mountains. 

 August and September. Stem erect, 2"" high ; leaves 2-3' 

 long ; bracts lanceolate, red ; corolla 1' long. 



M. FiSTULOSA, L. Stem branching, more or less pubes- 

 cent, commonly hairy at the joints; leaves petioled, ovate- 

 lanceolate, acute, sharply serrate, mostly rounded or trun- 

 cate at the base ; whorls terminal ; calyx slightly incurv- 

 ed, hispid in the throat; corolla slender, rose-color. (M. 

 clinopodia, and M. mollis, L.) August and September. 

 Stem 2°-5° high; leaves smoothish, tomentose, or hispid, 

 1-3' long; bracts pale purple. 



