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THE LADIES’ FLOWER-GARDEN 
3._M0NARDA media, Willd 
Engraving. — Sweet’s Brit. Flow. Gard., t. 98. 
Specific Character. — Stem obtusely angular, pubescent ; leaves 
cordate-ovate, acuminate, sharply serrated, shining on the upper sur- 
face, and pubescent below. Flowers vcrticillate, in distant whorls ; 
Description, &c. — This species only differs from 
instead of scarlet, in the central lobe of the lower li 
THE PURPLE MONARDA. 
bracts coloured, exterior ones ovate, acuminate, serrated ; interior 
ones lanceolate-linear, entire ; lower lip of the corolla with the middle 
lobe bifid. 
the common Oswego Tea in the dowers being purple 
p being cleft, and in the stem being obtusely angular, 
instead of sharply so. It is, also, not quite so large a plant. It is a native of North America, and it is 
supposed to have been brought to this country in 1812. 
4._M0NARDA mollis, Lin. THE SOFT MONARDA. 
Synonymes. — M. allophylla, Michx. ; M. purpurea, Pursh. ; M. 
undulata, Reich. ; M. oblongata, Ail.; M. fistulosa, var. maculata, 
lienth. 
Engraving. — Bot. Mag., t. 3310. 
Specific Character. — Leaves petiolate, ovate-lanceolate, rounded 
or subcordate at the base. Flowers in a terminal head, recurved. 
Description, &c. — This is a very elegant species, with flowers of a light purple, spotted with a much darker 
shade of the same colour. The species is a native of New Orleans, whence it was introduced in the year 1832. 
The stem grows two or three feet high ; but it is much more slender and graceful than that of most of the 
other species of the genus. The flowers are few, but they are pretty and elegantly disposed. 
5.— MONARDA RUSSELLIANA, Hook. THE DOTTED-FLOWERED MONARDA. 
Engravings. — Bot. Mag., t. 2513; and ovcc fig. 4, in PI. 90. i upper ones entire. Flowers capitate ; lower lip of the corolla curled 
Specific Character. — Stem acutely angled, with two deep grooves ; inwards, 
leaves ovate, acuminate, rounded at the base ; lower ones serrated, | 
Description, &c. — This very distinct species is a native of North America, whence it was introduced in 
1823. It is quite hardy in British gardens, though it does not blossom till late in autumn. 
OTHER SPECIES OF MONARDA. 
M. ARISTATA, Nutt. Bot. Mag., t. 3526. 
A very pretty species, with rose-coloured flowers in distinct whorls, and leaves which smell like lemon. 
It is a native of Mexico, and also, it is said, of the Southern States of North America, whence it was introduced 
in 1823 ; but it appears to have been since lost. 
M. PUNCTATA, Lin. Bot. Reg., t. 87. 
The flowers of this species are yellow, spotted with red, and the bracts are pink. The leaves smell like those 
of mint. It is a native of North America, whence it was introduced in 1714; but it appears to have been 
since lost. 
There are several other names in catalogues, but they appear to be only synonymes of the plants already 
described. There is, indeed, a great confusion among the plants belonging to this genus, and some botanists 
make only two distinct species of the whole — viz., those with the flowers in terminal heads, and those with the 
flowers in several distinct whorls. 
