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slightly pinkish, crowded in a dense terminal spike and often a few in the 

 upper axils. Calyx five-parted, segments ovate-oblong, with smooth bracts 

 at the base. Corolla irregular, tubular, inflated and two-lipped; upper lip 

 arched, concave, entire or slightly notched and covering the lower lip while 

 the flower is immature; under lip three-lobed, spreading in maturity and 

 woolly within. Stamens five, only four of which bear anthers, the sterile 

 one smaller. Fruit an ovoid capsule about one-half of an inch high. 



In swamps, wet meadows, along streams and in low, wet woods, 

 Newfoundland to Florida, west to Alabama, Kansas and Manitoba. 

 Flowering from July to September. 



Hairy Beardtongue 



Pentstemon hirsutus (Linnaeus) Willdenow 



Plate 198 



A slender- stemmed, erect herb, i to 3 feet high from a perennial root. 

 Stems downy, puberulent or hairy, usually several from a root. Leaves 

 puberulent or smooth; the pedicels, calyx and corolla pubescent. Leaf 

 blades denticulate, the lower ones oblong or ovate, somewhat obtuse at 

 the apex; petioled, 2 to 4^ inches long, one-half to 2 inches wide; upper 

 leaves smaller, lanceolate, long pointed, sessile or clasping the stem. 

 Flowers borne on short pedicels in a loose thyrse, purplish or violet in 

 color. Calyx five-parted, the lobes overlapping; corolla consisting of an 

 elongated tube about, i inch long, dilated at the point of separation of the 

 upper and lower lips; upper lip two-lobed; lower lip three-lobed; throat 

 of the tube nearly closed by a hairy palate. Stamens five, four of which 

 are anther-bearing, the fifth sterile and densely bearded for about one-half 

 its length. 



Dry woods, thickets and fields, Maine to Ontario and Minnesota, 

 south to Florida, Alabama and Missouri. Flowering in May, June and 



July. 



The Smooth Beardtongue (Pentstemon pentstemon (Linnaeus) 

 Britton (figure XXVIII), P. laevigatus Solander) is smooth except the 



