MINT FAMILY. Labiatse. 



A rather smooth form with handsome 

 Monarda fistu- 



losa var. rubra crimson-pink or rose red flowers finely 

 Crimson pink hairy over the tube and upper lip, and thin 

 leaves rather smooth. On the borders of 

 moist thickets, Me. and N. H. , south along the mountains 

 to Pa. and Va. The var. media, with deep purple flowers. 

 Alleghany Mts., and west to Minn. The var. rubra is 

 locally plentiful in parts of N. H. , notably south of New- 

 found Lake. It is unfortunately classified as Purple 

 Bergamot, Monarda media, in Britton and Brown, which 

 is manifestly confusing. Monarda mollis is a less com- 

 mon species ; flowers flesh pink and lilac ; in S. Dak. 



A woodland species rather similar in 

 Downy 



Blephilia many respects to Monarda. The small 



Blephilia dli- tubular flowers about ^ inch long, with a 

 ata three-lobed under lip, light purple or 



Jun^Aa'art violet) and fine - hair 7- The lance-shaped 

 leaves almost toothless (except the lower 

 ones), white-downy beneath, and quite stemless, or nearly 

 so. The stem downy and mostly simple. 1-2 feet high. 

 Mass., south to Ga., and west to Minn, and Kan. 

 C a t n jp An exceedingly common weed to which 



Nepeta Cataria many of the animals of the tribe Felis are 

 Lilac-white greatly attached. A favorite Manx cat of 

 July-October mme wou l(i walk a mile every other day 

 or so, from my Camptori studio to a spot where it 

 grew in plenty, notwithstanding the way was through 

 the woods and over a hill of no small difficulty ! The 

 stem is densely downy as well as the deeply round-toothed 

 leaves, and both are sage green in color. The pale lilac 

 or lilac-white and spotted flowers are also downy, and 

 gathered in small terminal clusters, which are rarely 4 

 inches long. Leaves strongly aromatic. 2-3 feet high. 

 Common everywhere. Naturalized from Europe. 



A small creeping plant, adventive from 

 e- Europe, common in all moist shady places ; 

 Ground it takes the place of our Trailing Arbutus, 



Nepeta Qle- in the moist fields of England in April. 

 choma The pale p urp ie flowers, spotted darker 



ApriJ- !uy ^ near the throat > and often with the Calvx 



maerenta-tinged, has * w o lips, the upper 

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