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type locality being Virginia. With us the species occurs 

 in rich, moist woods, flowering from July until Septem- 

 ber. 



Specimens in our herbarium are from Winneshiek, 

 Dubuque, Johnson, Jefferson, Des Moines, J^ecatur, and 

 Ringgold counties. We have observed the species in 

 Allamakee, Clayton, Van Buren, and Taylor counties. 

 The State University herbarium has specimens from Jones, 

 Floyd, Lee, Cerro Gordo, and Lyon counties. Professor 

 Bessey reported the species from Story county; Professor 

 Fink from Fayette county; Professor Pammel from Wood- 

 bury county; Messrs. Nagel and Haupt from Scott county; 

 Messrs. Barnes, Reppert, and Miller from Muscatine county; 

 and Mr. Mills from Henry county. 



Parry, Owen's Report Geol. Sur. Wis., la., & Minn., p. 61G; Arthur, 

 Contr. Fl. la., p. 22; Nagel and Haupt, Proc. Davenport Acad. Nat. Sci- 

 ences, Vol. 1, p. 160; Hitchcock, Trans. St. Louis Acad. Nat. Science, 

 Vol. 5, p. 511; Pammel, Proc. Iowa Acad. Sciences, Vol. 3, p. 127; Fink, 

 Proc. Iowa Acad. Sciences, Vol. 4, p. 97; Bessey, Fourth Bien. Rep. Agr. 

 Col. , p. Ill; Halsted, Bull. Iowa State Agr. Col. , Feb. , 1888, p. 43; Bull. 

 Nov., 1886, p. 51; Shimek, Proc. Iowa Acad. Sciences, Vol. 5, p. 31: 

 Iowa Geol. Sur., Vol. 10, p. 177; Fitzpatrick, Proc. Iowa Acad. Sciences, 

 Vol. 5, p. 124 & p. 156; Vol. 6, p. 192; Manual Fl. Plants of Iowa, p. 122; 

 Barnes, Reppert, and Miller, Proc. Davenport Acad. Sciences, Vol. 8, p. 

 243. 



ScROPHULARiA LEPORELLA B/(Vt«(^7/, Bull. Tori*. Club, 23:817. 

 1896. 



Stem 3 — 6 feet high; puberuleut below, sharply 4-angled 

 with flat sides, simple or occasionally branched; leaves 

 ovate to lanceolate, acuminate, short-petioled, usually 

 incised-dentate; flowers in elongated thyrses; corolla con- 

 tracted at the throat, green to purple, shining without, 

 dull within, the two lateral lobes erect; lobes of the upper 

 lip sometimes narrowly oblong; sterile stamen greenish 

 yellow. 



A species for a long time confounded with Scrop/udaria 

 marylandica. The range of the species as now known is 

 from Connecticut to Virginia, west to Minnesota and 

 Nebraska. The species is said to bloom from May until 

 July and is out of bloom by the time the flowers of 



