FIG WORT FAMILY. 719 



Fentstemon pentstemon (L.) Britton, Mem. Torr. Club, 5:291. 1894. 



SMOOTHISH BEARD-TONGUE. 



Chelone pentstemon L. Sp. PL ed. 2, 2 : 850. 1762. 



Pentstemon laevigatus Soland. in Ait. Hort. Kew. 2 : 361. 1789. 



P. laevigatus var. multijtorus Chap. Fl. ed. 3, 309. 1897. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 128. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 381. Chap. Fl. 290: Gray, Syn. FL N. A. 2, pt. 

 1 : 268. 



Carolinian area. Virginia and Pennsylvania west to Missouri and Arkansas, south 

 to Tennessee and Georgia. 



ALABAMA : Mountain region. Madison County, Huutsville (Prof. L. H. Undenvood). 

 Flowers in April. Infrequent. 



Type locality: "Hab. in Virginia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Pentstemon smallii Heller, Bull. Torr. Club, 21:25. 1894. 



Perennial, l^to 4 feet high, glabrous below. Radical leaves oval to ovate; cauline 

 leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 2 to 5 inches long, 1 to 3 inches wide, almost 

 connected by the clasping bases, smoothish or softly pubescent, serrate, the upper- 

 most entire; inflorescence more or less pubescent like the scarious-margined, lanceo- 

 late calyx lobes ; corolla bright purple, the lower lip densely bearded with yellow 

 hairs ; sterile filament bearded to the base, most densely above. 



Carolinian area Tennessee, North Carolina, and northern Georgia. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Dry open woods. Madison County, Huntsville (L. 

 M. Undenvood). Dekalb County, Lookout Mountain, near Loring's Spring Hotel, 

 altitude 2,000 feet (C. Mohr). 



Type locality: "Collected by the writer on Blowing Rock Mountain, Caldwell 

 County, N. C." 



P AULOWNIA Sieb. & Zucc. Fl. Jap. 1 : 25, t. 10. 1835. 



One species, Japan. 

 Paulownia tomeiitosa (Thunb.) Baill. Hist. PL 9:434. 1888. PAULOWNIA. 



Bignonia tomentosa Thunb. Fl. Jap. 252. 1784. 



Paulownia imperialis Sieb. & Zucc. Fl. Jap. 1 : 27. 1835. 



Louisianian area. Introduced, and in the lower Southern States here and there 

 escaped from cultivation. 



ALABAMA : Central prairies. In waste places about dwellings. Pike County, Troy. 

 Montgomery County. Flowers cerulean blue ; February, March. 



Type locality : "Crescit in insula Nipon et prope Nagasaki." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. 



MIMULUS L. Sp. PL 2:634. 1753. MONKEY FLOWER. 



Over 60 species, perennial herbs, about 59 eastern tropical America, Mexico, and 

 chiefly northwestern America. United States 28. Atlantic, 3. 



Mimulus alatus Soland. in Ait. Hort. Kew. 2:361. 1789. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 125. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 383. Chap. FL 291. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2, pt. 

 1 : 276. Coulter, Contr/Nat. Herb. 2 : 309. 



Carolinian area. New York west to Michigan, the Ohio Valley, Missouri, and 

 Arkansas; south to Florida and Texas. 



ALABAMA : Mountain region to Lower hills. Damp grassy banks, margin of rivulets. 

 Clay County, Moseley, 1,000 feet altitude. Cullman and Blount counties. Bibb 

 County (E. A. Smith). Tuscaloosa County. Flowers mauve-purple; August. One 

 and one-half to 2 feet high. Not common. Perennial. 



Type locality: " Native of North America." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



GRATIOLA L. Sp. PL 1 : 17. 1753. HEDGE HYSSOP. 



Twenty-five species, low perennials; temperate Europe. North America, 14. 

 Atlantic, 12, mostly Southern. 

 Gratiola floridana Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phila. 7 : 103. 1834. 



FLORIDA HEDGE HYSSOP. 



Chap. Fl. 292. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. pt. 2, 1 : 281. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southeastern Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida. 



ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley to Central Prairie region. Wet places in the woods. 

 Lawrence County, Moulton, 600 feet. Franklin County, Russellville. Cullman 



