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Erect branching perennials, with opposite dissected or 

 entire leaves, and yellow flowers. Calyx campanulate, 

 5-cleft, corolla-tube short and broad; limb of 5 ovate or 

 oblong nearly equal spreading lobes. Stamens 4, nearly 

 equal. 



Afzelia macrophylla (Nnff.) Kiinfze. Mullen Foxglove. 



Sevfneria macfopkvlla Nutt. Gen. 2:49. 1818. 



Geran^ia fnacrophy //a Benth. Comp. Bot. Mag. 1:205. 1835. 



AfzHia vmcrophylla Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 457. ]89]. 



Stem 3 — 6 feet high, pubescent to glabrate; lower leaves 

 pinnatifid, divisions lance-oblong, incised; the upper lan- 

 ceolate, serrate or entire; flowers short-pedicelled, axil- 

 lary, in a long interrupted spike; corolla woolly inside; 

 filaments woolly ; style short; capsule globose or ovoid, 

 tipped with a flat mucronate point, many-seeded. 



This species ranges from Nebraska and Iowa to Ohio, 

 south to Kentucky and Texas. The species grows in moist 

 soil in woods near water courses and blooms during the 

 months of July and August. Within our limits the species 

 may be said to be frequent but somewhat local in its dis- 

 tribution, often there being a colony of many individuals 

 in one locality outside of which none wnll be found for 

 many miles, one colony to a county being the rule. T3q3e 

 locality: "Hab. in shady alluvial soils on the banks of the 

 Little Miami (Ohio), near the town of Lebanon." 



Specimens in our collection are from Johnson, Des 

 Moines, Van Buren, Decatur, and Page counties. We have 

 observed the species in Muscatine county from which 

 locality there is a specimen in the State University her- 

 barium. Messrs. Barnes, Reppert, and Miller report the 

 species from vScott county. 



Arthur, Contr. Fl. la . p. 23; Gray's Manual, Ed. 6, p. 388; Fitzpat- 

 rick, Proc. Iowa Acad. Sciences, Vol. 5, p. 157; Vol.6, p. 192; Manual Fl. 

 Plants of Iowa, p. 126; Britton and Brown, Ills. Fl , Vol. 3, p. 172; Barnes, 

 Reppert, and Miller, Proc. Davenport Acad. Nat. Sciences, Vol. 8, p. 244. 



