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green before expanding. Capsule 2-3” long, about 2’ wide, 
short-ovoid or subglobose, mostly abruptly contracted or rounded 
to a slender mucronate point, often becoming black. Rarely the 
capsule is 3, 4 or 5-celled. | 
Woodland in rich soil, usually about rocky places, sometimes 
at the borders of thickets in low grounds. 
Begins to flower at New York about the middle of July (July 
7-28). In some seasons flowers are still to be found at the end 
of September. 
Specimens have been examined from various localities from 
New York and Ohio to North Carolina, Tennessee and Kansas. 
SCROPHULARIA LEPORELLA MN. sp. 
Lower than S. Marylandica, mostly 3°-4° tall (2°-7°), erect, 
but sometimes inclined from the weight of the fruiting panicle, 
commonly simple or nearly so, or developing a few ascending 
slender branches, rarely strongly branched. Stem throughout 
quadrangular with flat sides and acute margined angles, more or 
less glandular-puberulent especially when young, becoming gla- 
brate below, viscid-glandular above and throughout the panicle; 
glandulosity finer and closer than in Marylandica, the smaller 
glandules pale. Panicle commonly longer and narrower than in 
Marylandica, 1°-3° in length, naked or with small leaves subtend- 
ing the lowest cymes. Cymes commonly fewer-flowered and 
more contracted than in A/arylandica, the branches and pedicels 
less slender and spreading, mostly under 2’ long and broad (1’-3’, 
rarely longer), ascending, frequently much separated, the branches 
often not longer than the peduncles, the bracteoles mostly not in 
Pairs or finally recurved as in Marylandica, but solitary and some- 
what appresed or incurved. Flowers of the cymes mostly 5-7, 
rarely more than 11, sometimes only 3 in each cyme throughout. 
Exceptionally, on strongly developed plants, the cyme may be as 
long-branched and many-flowered as in Marylandica, presenting, 
however, a very distinct appearance from the more ascending 
branches and pedicels and longer more attenuate capsules. Leaves 
commonly smaller than in Marylandica (largest 10! x 4’) thicker 
and less rugose, brighter green, glabrous both sides, somewhat 
shining below (when young with some minute glandular hairs on 
the veins above and below) varying from deltoid-ovate through 
Ovate and oblong to lanceolate and narrowly lanceolate, truncate, 
cordate, rounded or tapering at the base, from finely and evenly to 
Coarsely and irregularly dentate-serrate or sharply cut dentate, 
sometimes with acuminate and elongated spreading uncinate teeth. 
Petioles short, from 1% to &% the length of the blade, stouter than 
in Marylandica, finely glandular-puberulent, on the upper side 
short-ciliate. Leaves of the axillary fascicles larger than in Mary- _ 
