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9. Penstemon tenuiflorus Pennell. 



Penstemon tenuifiorus Pennell, Addisonia 4: 79. pi. 160. 1919. "The type 

 specimen was collected in loam soil in open pineland, three miles southeast 

 of Albany, Morgan County, Alabama, on May 27, 1917, my number 9753, 

 and is preserved in the herbarum of the New York Botanical Garden." 



Stem 3-6 dm. tall, whitish -puberulent. Blades of the cauline 

 leaves 3-9 cm. long, obscurely serrulate, puberulent to pubescent. 

 Panicle narrow, its branches glandular-pubescent. Calyx-lobes 



ovate, 3-5 mm. long. Corolla 25-30 mm. long, its throat narrowly 

 arched and keeled posteriorly, flattened and strongly two-ridged 

 within anteriorly; externally glandular-puberulent, within pubescent 

 with yellow hairs over the projecting bases of the anterior lobes; 

 white, faintly tinged externally and on margins of lobes with violet, 

 not lined within throat. Posterior lobes united two-thirds their 

 length, their free portions erect-recurved. Sterile filament distally 

 densely bearded with short lemon-yellow hairs. Capsule not seen. 



Open woodlands, in loam soil, western Tennessee and northern 

 Alabama. Ranges north to Illinois and west to Oklahoma. 



Pennell (Alabama) — 9753. 



19. CHELONE Linng. 

 ■ Chelone L., Sp. PL 611. 1753. 



Type species, C. glabra L. 



Leaf-blades sessile and somewhat clasping, 1. C. cuthhertii. 



Leaf -blades manifestly petioled. 



Leaf -blades of a lanceolate type, narrowed to short petioles. 

 Corolla cream-white, white-lanose wnthin the throat. Sepals 

 obscurely or not cihate. 2. C. glabra. 



Leaf-blades of an ovate type, slightly cordate or narrowed into 

 petioles 1.5-3 cm. long. Corolla rose-purple, yellow-lanose 

 within the throat. Sepals evidently ciliate. 3. C. lyonii. 



1. Chelone cuthbertii Small. 



Chelone cuthbertii Small, Fl. S. E. Un. St. 1058, 1337. 1903. "Type, 

 Highlands, N. C, Cuthbert, no. 283, in N. Y. B. G." Type, collected 

 in flower August, 1897, in a wet meadow, at an altitude of 3800 feet, 

 seen in Herb. New York Botanical Garden. 



Wet meadows, western North Carolina. Little known, and the 



relation between this and C. glabra should be studied in the field. 



Flowering in August. Not seen growing. 



2. Chelone glabra L. 



Chelojie glabra L., Sp. PI. 611. 1753. "Habitat in Virginia, Canada." 

 Based upon a plant grown in the Clifford Garden in Holland. Descrip- 

 tion sufficiently distinctive. 



Wet meadows and woodland swamps, through the southern 



Appalachians and Piedmont, common northward; descending into 



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