

MINT FAMILY. Labiatae. 
A handsome plant, from three to five 
Giant Hyssop = feet high, with stout, branching stems, 
A gdstache urtici- 
tala usually smooth, sometimes hairy, and 
(Lo phanthus) smoothish, dark green leaves. The small 
Pink flowers have a green calyx, with mauve 
Sangin teeth, a white or pale violet corolla, and 
long, protruding stamens, with lilac 
anthers. They are crowded in spikes, from two to six 
inches long, and the whole effect is rather bright purplish- 
pink, feathery and pretty. This has a strong aromatic 
smell and grows along the edges of meadows and is abun- 
dant in Yosemite at moderate altitudes, but in other places 
reaches an altitude of over eight thousand feet and is 
found as far east as Colorado. A. pallidifléra, with 
’ greenish-white calyxes and white corollas, too dull in 
color to be pretty, grows in the Grand Canyon and in 
New Mexico and Colorado. 
There are several kinds of Monarda, all North American; 
aromatic herbs; leaves toothed; flowers crowded in heads, 
usually with bracts, which are sometimes colored; calyx 
tubular, with five teeth, often hairy inside; corolla more or 
less hairy outside, two-lipped, upper lip erect or arched, 
sometimes notched, lower lip spreading and three-lobed, 
the middle lobe larger; stamens two, with swinging 
anthers, sometimes also two rudimentary stamens; nutlets 
smooth. These plants are called Balm, Bergamot, and 
Horse-mint. 
This is handsome when growing in 
Horse-mint =§ masses, though the flowers are not 
Monéarda pecti- c ee : 
RES; ie sufficiently positive in color. It grows 
riodora in part) {from one to three feet high, with a stout, 
Pink roughish stem, sometimes branching, and 
Summer 
leaves which are thin and soft in texture, 
with a dull surface, but not rough, and 
more or less toothed. The flowers are nearly an inch long 
and project from crowded heads of conspicuous purplish 
bracts, tipped with bristles. The calyx is very hairy inside, 
the lobes tipped with long bristles, and the corolla is pale 
pink, lilac, or almost white, not spotted, with a very wide 
open, yawning mouth, the stamens and the curling tips of 
the pistil protruding from under the upper lip. This 
grows on dry plains, especially in sandy soil, as far east as 
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Ariz., Utah, etc. 

