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Annual or biennial; leaves linear or linear-oblono^, alter- 

 nate or those of the sterile shoots opposite; flowers blue 

 and white, in a long, slender raceme; spur filiform, curved. 



A species of which Linnaeus gave the type locality as: 

 "Habitat in Virginia, Canada," and which ranges from 

 Nova Scotia to Florida and Alabama, west to Minnesota, 

 Oregon, California, south to Texas, Central America, and 

 South America. Although Iowa is well within the range 

 of the species, yet it is scarcely known as belonging to our 

 flora. The onlj^ references in Iowa literature concerning 

 this species known to us are Prof. Arthur's, in his contri- 

 butions, No. 3, who reported the species from Cedar Rap- 

 ids and Vinton, Linn and Benton counties; a note in Bul- 

 letin of the Torrey Botanical Club, and the citation in our 

 Manual. 



Arthur, Proc. Davenport Acad. Nat. Sciences, Vol 2, p. 259; Fitzpat- 

 rick, Manual Fl. PI. Iowa, p. 121; Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, Vol. 6, p. 209. 



SCROPHULARIA L. Sp. PI. 619. 1753. 



Coarse perennials, with opposite leaves, and small, green- 

 ish purple cymose flowers. Calyx 5-parted. Corolla short, 

 5-lobed, four lobes erect, the fifth reflexed; tube globose. 

 Stamens included, 4, and a rudimentary fifth on the upper 

 side of the throat of the corolla. 



ScROPHULARIA MARYLANDICA L. Sp. PI. 619. 175B. 



Scrophularia lanceolata Pursh, Fl. N. A., 2:419. 1814. 

 Scrophiilaria nodosa var. Marylandica A. Gray, Syn. Fl. 2: Part 1, 

 258. 1878 



Stem 3 — 7 feet high, 4-angled, with grooved sides, gla- 

 brous, branching; leaves large, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 

 thin, acuminate, sharply serrate; cymes in a slender ter- 

 minal thyrse-like panicle; corolla brownish, purple within, 

 throat but little contracted, the two lateral lobes slightly 

 spreading, the upper lip erect, its lobes short and rounded; 

 sterile stamen deep purple. 



A species ranging from New England and Quebec, Onta- 

 rio, west to Minnesota, Nebraska, and Oregon, south to 

 Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Colorado, the 



