Volume V Part 1 (1/2)

The Botanical Magazine.

by William Curtis.

VOL. V.

----”the garden yields A soft amus.e.m.e.nt, an humane delight.

To raise th' insipid nature of the ground, Or tame its savage genius to the grace Of careless sweet rusticity, that seems The amiable result of happy chance, Is to create, and give a G.o.d-like joy, Which ev'ry year improves.”

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MONARDA FISTULOSA, _var._ CRIMSON MONARDA.

_Cla.s.s and Order._

DIANDRA MONOGYNIA.

_Generic Character._

_Corolla_ inaequalis: labio superiore lineari filamenta involvente.

_Semina_ 4.

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

MONARDA _fistulosa_ capitulis terminalibus, caule obtusangulo. _Linn.

Syst. Vegetab. p. 68. ed. 14. Murr._ _Hort. Kew. v. 1. p. 36._

ORIGANUM fistulosum Canadense. _Corn. Canad. 13. t. 14._

[Ill.u.s.tration: No 145]

The _Monarda fistulosa_, a hardy herbaceous plant, growing spontaneously in Canada, and other parts of North-America, has long been cultivated in the English gardens, to which it recommends itself as much by the fragrance of its foliage, as the beauty of its flowers; of this species the plant here figured is an uncommonly beautiful variety, its blossoms far surpa.s.sing those of the original in size, as well as brilliancy of colour, the floral leaves also are highly coloured; we have represented a single blossom of the common _Monarda fistulosa_, that the difference of the two may be rendered obvious.