. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 9. Monarda dispersa Small. Purple Lemon Monarda. Fig. 3644. M. dispersa Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 1038. 1903. Annual, puberulent; stem stout, usually branched, l°-2i° high. Leaves oblong-spatu- late, oblanceolate or oblong,' or narrowly ob- long to linear on the upper part of the stem, i'-4i' long, shallowly serrate; flower clusters axillary and terminal, often nume
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 9. Monarda dispersa Small. Purple Lemon Monarda. Fig. 3644. M. dispersa Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 1038. 1903. Annual, puberulent; stem stout, usually branched, l°-2i° high. Leaves oblong-spatu- late, oblanceolate or oblong,' or narrowly ob- long to linear on the upper part of the stem, i'-4i' long, shallowly serrate; flower clusters axillary and terminal, often numerous and usually conspicuous by the broad abruptly bristle-tipped purple bracts; calyx-tube longer than in M. pectinata, the teeth usually longer and more slender, fully half as long as the tube; corolla pale, usually pink, puberulent, n"-i3" long; stamens mostly not exceeding the upper lip. On plains and prairies and in cultivated grounds, Missouri and Kansas to Georgia, Florida, Texas, New Mexico and adjacent Mexico. 25. BLEPHILIA Raf. Journ. Phys. 89 Perennial hirsute or pubescent erect herbs, with axillary and terminal dense glomerules of rather small purplish or bluish flowers, or the glomerules in terminal more or less inter- rupted spikes. Calyx tubular, 13-nerved, not villous in the throat, 2-lipped, the upper lip 3-toothed, the lower 2-toothed, the teeth all aristate or those of the lower lip subulate. Corolla glabrous within, the tube expanded above, the limb 2-lipped; upper lip erect, entire; lower lip 3-lobed, the notched middle lobe narrower than the lateral ones. Anther-bearing (anterior) stamens 2, ascending, exserted or included; posterior stamens reduced to filiform staminodia, or none; anthers 2-celled, the sacs divaricate, somewhat confluent at the base. Ovary deeply 4-parted; style 2-cleft at the apex. Nutlets ovoid, smooth. [Greek, eyelash, from the fringed calyx-teeth.] Two species, natives of eastern North America. Type species: Blep
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