Calyx tubulosus, quinque-dentatus. Corolla ringens, labio superiore lineari, filamenta involvente.
Empalement tubular, five-toothed. Blossom gaping: the upper lip linear, and enfolding the threads.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Monarda foliis lanceolatis, dentatis, minutè punctatis: floribus verticillatis, flavis, rubro punctatis: foliis involucri ovato-lanceolatis, glabris, incarnatis.
Habitat in Americâ Boreali.
Monarda with lance-shaped leaves, toothed, and minutely dotted. Flowers grow in whorls, are of a yellow colour, and dotted with red: the involucrate leaves are ovately lance-shaped, smooth, and flesh-coloured.
Native of North America.
REFERENCE 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 uncoloured 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 the foliage, some so minutely as scarcely to be perceived without the aid of a magnifier. 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; 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.[Pg 109]