Genus 28. 



F1GW0RT FAMILY. 



3. Dasystoma serrata (Benth.) Small. 

 Serrate False Foxglove. Fig. 3814. 



D. Drummondii serrata Benth. in DC. Prodr. 10 : 

 521. 1846. 



G. grandiflora integriuscula A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. 

 Am. 2 1 : 291. 1871. 



Gerardia grandiflora serrata Robinson, in A. Gray, 

 Man. Ed. 7, 730. 1908. 



Dasystoma serrata Small, Bull. Torr. Club 28: 451. 

 1901. 



Perennial, grayish puberulent or finely pubes- 

 cent; stems i-3i tall, often widely branched. 

 Leaf-blades of the lower part of the stem pin- 

 natifid and their segments entire, merely serrate 

 and much smaller above ; calyx-tube 2i"-3" 

 broad during anthesis ; calyx-lobes linear-lanceo- 

 late to lanceolate, entire: corolla 1 ' 1 ' long; 

 capsules ovoid or globose-ovoid, S"-fi" long, 

 short-beaked. 



In dry soil, Missouri to Louisiana and Texas. 

 July-Sept. 



4. Dasystoma grandiflora (Benth.) Wood. 

 Western False Foxglove. Fig. 3815. 



Gerardia grandiflora Benth. Comp. Bot. Mag. I : 206. 



1835. 

 D. Drummondii Benth. in DC. Prodr. 10: 520. 1846. 

 D. grandiflora Wood, Bot. & Flor. 231. 1873. 



Perennial, cinereous-puberulent and roughish ; 

 stem much branched, very leafy to the top, 2-3 

 high, the branches ascending or spreading. Leaves 

 short-petioled, thin, ovate or ovate-lanceolate in 

 outline, all pinnatifid or deeply incised, 2'-4' long, 

 the lobes acute or obtuse, serrate, or nearly entire; 

 upper leaves smaller, sessile ; pedicels, even in fruit, 

 shorter than the calyx ; calyx-lobes oblong or ovate, 

 dentate or entire, about as long as the tube ; corolla 

 1Y-2' long, glabrous without, its tube much ex- 

 panded above. 



In dry woods and thickets, Minnesota and Wisconsin 

 to Tennessee, Kansas and Texas. July-Aug. 



5. Dasystoma laevigata Raf. Entire- 

 leaved False Foxglove. Fig. 3816. 



Gerardia laevigata Raf. Ann. Nat. 13. 1820. 

 Dasystoma quercijolia var. integrifolia Benth. in 



DC. Prodr. 10: 520. 1846. 

 Dasystoma laevigata Raf. ; Chapm. Fl. S. States, 



Ed. 2, 636. 1883. 



Perennial, glabrous or very nearly so, not 

 glaucous; stem strict, simple, or sparingly 

 branched, l-3 high, the branches ascending. 

 Leaves usually all petioled, lanceolate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, li' 4' long, entire, or the lowest 

 dentate or incised ; pedicels shorter than the 

 calyx, or in fruit longer ; calyx-lobes ovate- 

 lanceolate, equalling or shorter than the tube; 

 corolla glabrous without, l'-li' long, the limb 

 fully as broad, the tube much expanded above; 

 capsule glabrous, twice as long as the calyx. 



In dry thickets, Pennsylvania to Michigan, 

 Georgia and Missouri. July-Aug. 



