Cultivated on Apiary Experimental Plats, 1904; only a few plants grew and bloomed. A few bees visited it. Soon died. July.*
WILD BERGAMONT. Monarda fistulosa L.
Mint family. Labiatae.
"Dry soil throughout Texas, etc." (Coulter). College: along banks of ravines. Honey yield good but plants not abundant. May, July.*
HORSE-MINT. Monarda clinopodioides Gray.
Mint family. Labiatae.
"Eastern and Southern Texas." (Coulter). Prairies and waste land; honey yield abundant; one of the main yielders; honey compared to bass-wood in flavor. May, June.*
HORSE-MINT. Monarda punctata L. (See frontis-piece).
Mint family. Labiatae.
"Sandy ground extending from the Atlantic regions to Southern and Western Texas." (Coulter). In open prairies and waste land; honey yield abundant; one of the main crop yielders; honey compared with basswood. May, July.* "A good yielder in Brazos bottoms. College Station, Texas, in 1907, June." (E. Scholl).