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This species grows in fields and woods, preferring dry 

 soil, and within our limits it usually blooms during May 

 and June. The species has quite an extensive range, 

 being found from Nova Scotia to Manitoba, south to 

 Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Kansas, Colorado, Texas, and 

 northern Mexico. Linna3us gave the type locality as: 

 "Habitat in America septentrionalis. Kalm." 



Specimens in our herbarium are from AVinneshiek, 

 Johnson, Decatur, and Shelby counties. We have observed 

 the species in Allamakee and Clayton counties. The State 

 University herbarium has specimens from Story, Dallas, 

 Cerro Gordo, Hancock, Calhoun, Pottawattamie, Emmet, 

 and Lyon counties. Professor Bessey reported the species 

 from Warren, Poweshiek, Floyd, Fayette, and Des Moines 

 counties. Messrs. Nagel and Haupt from Scott county; 

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

 and Mr. Mills, by note, from Heniy county. 



Parry, Owen's Geol. Sur, Wis., la. and Minn., p. 616; Arthur, Contr. 

 FI. la., p. 23; Nagel and Haupt, Proc. Davenport Acad. Nat. Sciences, 

 Vol. 1, p. 160; Hitchcock, Trans. St. Louis Acad. Scieiace, Vol. 5, p. 511; 

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

 Agr. Col., p. 112; Shimek, Bull. Lab. Nat. Hist., S. U. I., Vol. 3, p. 

 208; Iowa Geol, Sur., Vol. 10, p. 175; Halsted, Bull. State Agr. Col., 

 Nov., 1883, pp. 7, 43, & 48, and Feb., 1888, pp. 43 & 44; Fifzpatrick, 

 Proc. Iowa Acad Sciences, Vol. 5, p. 124 & p. 157; Manual Fl. Plants of 

 Iowa, p. 127; Rigg, Note-^ on the Flora of Calhoun County, p. 22; Barnes, 

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



Pedicularis lanceolata MicJt.r. Fl. Bor. Am. 2:18. 1803. 

 Swamp Lousewort. 



Pedicularis auHculata Smith in Lees' Cyclop. 1814. 

 Pedicularis virgznica Poir. Enc. Meth. 5:126. 1804. 

 Pedicularis pallida and resupinata Pursh, Fl. N. A. 424. 1814. 

 Pedicularis auriculata Srn. ex Benth. D. C. Prodr. 10:577. 1846. 



Stem 1 — 2 feet high, somewhat hairy or glabrous; 

 leaves mostly opposite, lance-oblong, pinnately lobed. 

 crenate-toothed, spike dense; calyx 2-lobed; the upper lip 

 of the corolla larger, covering the lower; capsule ovate, 

 about the length of the calyx. 



This species ranges from Connecticut to Ontario and 

 Virginia, west to Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, ^Manitoba, 



