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entire : flowers bluish, bracted. Locally frequent in wet woods two miles 

 south of Little Blue Tank. June-July. 



2. V. peregrina L. NECKWEED. Annual or perennial, 2 / -18 / high, 

 smooth to glandular-pubescent : lower leaves opposite, ovate-oblong, ses- 

 sile, toothed, the upper alternate, linear-oblong, entire: flowers I" 

 broad A very abundant weed in fields. April-October. 



3. V. arvensis L. CORN SPEEDWELL. Annual, 1/-8' high, hairy : 

 lower leaves petioled, ovate- cor date, the upper sessile : flowers I" broad. 

 Abundant, especially in shaded rocky woods. Apparently native. 

 April- June. 



14. LEPTANDRA Nutt. 



Perennial herbs with flowers in dense terminal spikes. Corolla tubular, 

 nearly equally 4-lobed. Stamens long-exserted. Capsule ovoid, not 

 notched. 



1. L. Virginica (L.) Nutt. CULVER'S ROOT. 2-7 high, erect, gla- 

 brous: leaves 3-9-verticillate, short petioled, lanceolate, serrate, usually 

 pubescent beneath : spikes several : flowers whitish, 2 X/ long. Locally 

 common in moist woods and prairies throughout. June-July. 



15. AFZELIA J. G. Gmel. 



Herbs with pinnately divided leaves and yellow flowers. Corolla tube 

 short, about the length of the nearly equal spreading lobes. Stamens 

 four, nearly equal, included. 



1. A. macrophylla (Nutt.) Kuntze. YELLOW FOX-GLOVE. Peren- 

 nial, 2-5 high, puberulent : lower leaves pinnatsly divided, the lobes 

 incised, the upper ovate-lanceolate, entire : corolla 6 X/ long, woolly within. 

 Rather frequent in shaded rocky woods. July-August. 



16. GERARDIA L. 



Herbs with opposite sessile leaves and peduncled axillary reddish-purple 

 large flowers, forming a raceme or panicle. Corolla campanulate with a 

 swollen tube and almost equally 5-lobed limb. Stamens four, didynamous. 



Flowers sessile. 1. G. auriculata. 

 Pedicels not twice the length of the calyx. 



Capsule oblong. 2. G. aspera. 



Capsule globose. 3. G. purpurea. 

 Pedicels more than twice the length of the calyx. 

 Capsule globose. 



Leaves less than V wide. 4. G. lenuifolia. 



Leaves l"-2" wide. 5. G. Besseyana. ', 



Capsules ovoid-oblong. 6. G- Skinneriana. 



1. G. auriculata Michx. l-3 high, erect, hairy : leaves lanceolate, 

 entire, but usually with two lobes at base: flowers V long, glabrous 

 within as are the filaments: capsule globose-ovoid. Locally common in 

 moist open grounds throughout. July-September. 



2. G. aspera Dougl. l-2 high, branching, scabrous : leaves filiform- 

 linear : flowers V long : filament villous : capsule oblong. Rarely occurs 

 as a waif at Sheffield and Courtney. 



