MONARDA. 



LABTATyE. 



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Stem 1-2 feet high, prominently 4-angled, a little pubescent, branching ; the joints villous. 

 Leaves 3-5 inches long and 1-2 inches broad, somewhat hairy on both sides, particularly 

 on the veins underneath, sometimes acute at the base : petioles half an inch or more in length. 

 Flowers in one or two (rarely in three) whorls, which resemble proliferous heads. Tracts 

 large and purplish. Calyx about half an inch long, smooth, scarlet ; f he teeth subulate. 

 Corolla bright scarlet, an inch and a half in length, with the tube tapering downward. 

 Stamens exserted a little beyond the upper lip of the corolla. 



Moist fertile meadows and borders of streams : northern and western parts of the State. 

 July - August. A highly ornamental plant, and frequently cultivated in gardens. 



2. Monakda fistulosa, Linn. Horse-mint. Wild Bergamot. 



Leaves petiolate, ovate-lanceolate, rounded and somewhat cordate at the base, smooth on 

 both sides, or pubescent-hispid , the floral ones and exterior bracts a little colored ; calyx 

 somewhat curved and scarcely colored , the throat hispid inside ; corolla smooth or villous 

 (Benth.) — Linn. sp. 1. p. 20; Pursh, fl. 1. p 18 ; Ell. sk. 1. p. 29 ; Bot. mag. t. 3310 ; 

 Torr.Jl. 1. p. 26; Beck, bot. p. 276 ; Darlingt. fl. Cest.p. 343 ; Reich, ic. exot. 2. t. 170 ; 

 Benth. Lab. p. 317; Hook. I. c. M. rugosa & oblongata, Ait. Kew. (ed. 2.) 1. p. 52; 

 Pursh, I. c. M. clinopodia, Linn. I. c. ; Pursh, I. c. ; Ell. I. c. M. ailophylla, Michx. 

 fl.l.p.16; Bigel. fl. Bost. p. 9. 



Stem 2-3 feet high, branched, smooth or a little hairy (particularly the branches), com- 

 monly of a purple color, either fistular or filled with pith. Leaves 2-4 inches long and 

 1-2 inches wide, rather coarsely and uncinately serrate : petiole 4-8 lines long, hairy, 

 ciliate. Heads 2 inches in diameter when the flowers are expanded, terminal or proliferous. 

 Outer bracts varying from broadly ovate to ovate-lanceolate, partly colored with purple and 

 greenish white. Corolla violet-purple or pale rose-color, pubescent and covered with shining 

 glandular dots : upper lip long and linear, somewhat falcate, a little villous at the tip ; the 

 tube slender, about half *an inch long. 



Hill-sides, and rocky banks of rivers ; frequent in the western counties. July - August. 

 I have followed Bentham in uniting to M. fistulosa several species of other authors, being 

 convinced that they are inconstant forms produced by variations of soil and situation. 



3. Monarda punctata, Linn. Horse-mint. 

 Minutely pubescent ; leaves lanceolate, petiolate, remotely serrate, narrowed at the base ; 



flowers in dense remote capitate whorls ; bracts lanceolate, obtuse at the base, colored ; calyx 

 pubescent, with short rigid teeth ; corolla smooth, the lower lip spotted. — Linn. sp. hp. 22 ; 

 Walt. fl. Car. p. 64 ; Pursh, fl. 1. p. 18 ; Ell sk. 1. p. 30 ; Torr. fl. 1. p. 26 ; Bot. reg. 

 t. 87 ; Beck, bot. p. 276. M. lutea, Michx. fl. 1. p. 16. 



