Produced by University of Georgia Libraries, Jason Isbell, Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreaders Europe at http://dp.rastko.net +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Transcriber's note: Older spellings of place names have been left as in| |the original. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ THE ~Botanical Magazine;~ OR, ~Flower-Garden Displayed:~ IN WHICH The most Ornamental FOREIGN PLANTS, cultivated in the Open Ground, the Green-House, and the Stove, are accurately represented in their natural Colours. TO WHICH ARE ADDED, Their Names, Class, Order, Generic and Specific Characters, according to the celebrated LINNAEUS; their Places of Growth, and Times of Flowering: TOGETHER WITH THE MOST APPROVED METHODS OF CULTURE. A WORK Intended for the Use of such LADIES, GENTLEMEN, and GARDENERS, as wish to become scientifically acquainted with the Plants they cultivate. By _WILLIAM CURTIS_, Author of the FLORA LONDINENSIS. ~VOL. V.~ ----"the garden yields A soft amusement, 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 god-like joy, Which ev'ry year improves." ARMSTRONG. LONDON: Printed by COUCHMAN and FRY, Throgmorton-Street. For W. CURTIS, No 3, _St. George's-Crescent_, Black-Friars-Road; And Sold by the principal Booksellers in Great-Britain and Ireland. M DCC XCI. * * * * * [145] MONARDA FISTULOSA, _var._ CRIMSON MONARDA. _Class 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._ [Illustration: 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 surpassing 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.