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P L A T E DXLVL
M O N A R D A PUNCTATA.
Dotted-Jiowered Monarda.
CLASS IL ORDER L
DIJNDRIA MONOGYNIA. Two Chives. One Pointal.
E S S E N T I A L GENERIC CHARACTEU.
CAI-YX tubulosusj quinque-dentatus. Corolla
ringens, labio superiore lineari, filamenta
involvente.
EMPALEMENT tubular, five-toothed. Blossom
gaping : the upper lip linear, and enfolding
the threads.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
MONARCA foliis lanceolatis, dentatis, minute
punctatis : floribus verticillatis, flavis, rabro
punctatis : foliis involucri ovato-lanceolatis,
glabris, incarnatis.
Habitat in America Boreali.
MONAEDA with lance-shaped leaves, toothed,
and minutely dotted. Flowers grow in
•whorls, are of a yellow colour, and dotted
with red: the involúcrate leaves are ovately
lance-shaped, smooth, and flesh-coloured.
Native of North America.
R E F E R E N C E TO THE PLATE.
1. A flower.
2. A blossom spread open, one tip magnified.
3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
4. Seed-bud magnified.
THE only figure of the Monarda punctata we have seen is an uncolonred one in Plukenet's Phytographia.
It is a perfectly new species to the garden, and the only Monarda with yellow flowers at present
known. Its specific title is particularly applicable to its bloom, as all the species yet enumerated
are more or less punctured in tlie foliage, some so minutely as scarcely to be perceived without tlie aid
of a mao-nifier. It is a native of Virginia in North America, but by whom introduced we have not
been able to learn. Our drawing was made from plants in the nursery of Messrs. Whitley and Brames,
who raised it from seed last year, 1807 5 but it did not flower till the latter part of the present summer.
It is a hardy perennial, and certainly a handsome addition to the genus.
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