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LABIATE. 



MoNARDA. 



Stem 2-3 feet high, branching, rather obtusely 4-angled, white with a verv short pubes- 

 cence. Leaves varying from rather narrowly- to oblong-lanceolate, tapering to a point ; the 

 teeth short. Bracts large, colored with yellow and purplish red. Flowers in several whorled 

 heads. Calyx somewhat curved, with a short beard in the throat ; the teeth lanceolate-subulate, 

 a little spreading. Corolla dull yellow ; the upper lip villous at the tip. 



Sandy fields and dry banks ; common on Long Island. Jefferson county (Mr. G. Vasey) ; 

 Near Owego, Susquehannah valley (Dr. Knieskern). August - September. This i lant has 

 a strong odor of pennyroyal. An essential oil is extracted from it, which is much esteemed 

 as an external remedy for rheumatism, and is also employed for sick stomach and flatulent 

 colic. (See the Phil. Med. Recorder, vol. 2. p. 494, with an accurate figure.) 



5. BLEPHIxjIA. Raf. injourn.phys. 89. p. 98; Benth. Lab. p. 319. BLEPHILIA. 



Species of Monarda, Linn. <f»e. 

 [ From blepharis, the Greek for eyelash ; probably in allusion to the fringed calyx-t th.] 



Calyx ovoid-tubular, 13-nerved, 2-lipped, naked in the threat : upper lip of 3 awned teeth ; 

 lower lip 2-toothed. Corolla 2-lipped ; the lips nearly equal in length : upper erect, entire ; 

 lower spreading, 3-lobed ; the lateral lobes ovate-roundish ; middle one oblong, retuse : 

 tube dilated in the throat. Stamens 2 : anther-lobes at length widely divaricate. Style 

 unequally 2-cleft at the summit. — Herbs with the habit of Monarda, Flowers in several 

 dense globose whorls. 



1. Blephilia hirsuta, Benth. Hairy Blephilia. 



Plant hairy ; leaves ovate, on long petioles, rounded and more or less cordate at the base ; 

 lower teeth of the calyx very short, awnless. — Benth. Lab. p. 320. Monarda hirsuta, Pursh, 

 fl. 1. p. 19 ; Torr. fl. 1. p. 27 ; Beck, bot. p. 277. M. ciliata, Michx. fl. 1. p. 16, not of 

 Linn. 



Perennial. Stem 2-3 feet high, with spreading branches, clothed with spreading or 

 retrorse villous hairs. Leaves 2-4 inches long and 1-2 inches broad, thin, hairy on both 

 sides, serrate, acuminate : petioles 4-10 lines long, hairy. Whorls about three-fourths of 

 an inch in diameter, often somewhat approximate toward the summit of the stem and branches 

 in a kind of spike ; at other times remote. Tube of the calyx smooth ; the lower lip distant 

 from the upper ; the teeth short and acuminate ; those of the upper lip with long subulate 

 points : all the teeth fringed with several long spreading hairs. Corolla small, pale bluish 

 purple, with darker spots. 



Borders of moist woods in the northern parts of the Sti.te. August, 



