462 METASPERMAE OF THE MINNESOTA VALLEY. 



North America: Red River jDrairie, 49° N. lat. to 

 Minn, valley, near Applet on; S. and W. to Dak., Col., Neb. and 

 Tex. 



Minn, valley: S. W. district and probably N. W. ; 

 dry banks and knolls. 



Herb.: if en^eZ 5, Pipestone; Herh. 3Ioyer 264., Monte- 

 video. 



Penstemon gracilis Nutt. Gen. II, 52 (1818). 



P. pubescens var. gracilis Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. VI, 57 (1862). 

 Chelone gracilis Sprekg. Syst. II, 813 (1825). 

 Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 382; Gray, Syn. Tl. II, 1, 267; 

 Webb., Fl. Neb. 137; Coult., Fl. Colo. 277; Mac, Fl. Can. I, 356; Upham, 

 Suppl. Minn. 86. 



North America: Minn., Man. and Saskatchewan to 

 Wyoming and Colo. 



Minn, valley: Throughout; infrequent; open places, 

 banks and knolls. 



Herb : Menzel 8, Pipestone; Ballard 24i, Jordan, 

 Scott Co.; Ballard 382, JoTdSiia.; Taylor 789, Glenwood; Sandberg 

 609, Cannon Falls; Herrick 3Jf.l, Minneapolis; Holzinger 297, 

 Winona Co.; Kassuhe 278, Minneapolis; Herrick 34.5, Minne- 

 apolis. 



Penstemon hirsutus (Linn.) Willd. Spec. Ill, 227 (1800). 



Chelone hirsutus Linn, Spec. 849(1753). 

 C pentstemon Linn. Mant. 415 (1767). 



Pentstemon pubescens Soland. Ait. Hort. Kew. II, 360 (1789). 

 Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 381; Mac, Fl. Can. I, 356; Upham, 

 Fl. Minn. 99; Chap., Fl S. St. 290; Britt., Fl. N. J. 184; Wats., King Exp. 

 454; Cov., Fl. Ark. 207; Gray, Syn. Fl. II, 1, 268; Engl. Wettst., Nat. 

 Pflanz. IV, 3, 65; Coult., Fl. Colo. 303. 



North America: Ont. to S. Man., Minn, and Iowa; S. 

 to Maine, N. J., Fla. and Tex. 



Minn, valley: W. district; high dry prairies; also N. 

 E. and S. E. ; open places. 



Herb.: Sheldon 1566, Lake Benton; Kassuhe 161, 

 Minneapolis; Herrick 198, Minneapolis; Herb. Wickersheim 91 > 

 Idle wild; (iedge 20, Moorhead; Wickersheim 136, Lake Benton; 

 137, Lake Benton (the last two Nos. are apparently intermedi- 

 ate forms between P. ieretijlorus Nutt. and P. hirsidus (Linn.), 

 having the foliage of the former and the Uowers and pubescence 

 of the latter. — Sheldon. 



MI.HULUS Linn. Act. Ups. 82 (1741). 



r.uiiaims Bentii. DC. Pmdr. X, .374 (1846). 

 Diplacus Nutt. Ann. Nat. Hist. 1, I, 37 (— -)• 



