Family SCROPHULARIACEA 121 
Leaves entire, whole plant glabrous, often glaucous. 
Bracts lanceolate or the lower broader. 
Leaves lanceolate. 
Flowers 2 cm. long or less. 6. P. acuminatus. 
Flowers 2.5 cm. long or more. 7. P. glaber. 
Leaves all linear or linear-lanceolate. 8. P. angustifolius. 
Bracts ovate, acuminate, large. 9. P. haydeni. 
Flowers 5 cm. long. 
Leaves dentate. 4. P. cobza. 
Leaves entire. 5. P. grandiflorus. 
1. Pentstemon erianthera Pursh. 
In prairies in the western part of the state. Pine Ridge. 
2. Pentstemon albidus Nutt. 
On high prairies and sand-hills mostly in the western part of the 
state. Antelope county; Anselmo; Box Butte county; Ft. Robinson; 
Kearney county; St. James; Thedford; Valentine. 
3. Pentstemon gracilis Nutt. 
In wet meadows, often near streams or pools. Cherry county; Deuel 
county; Pine Ridge; Sioux ocunty; War Bonnet canyon. 
4. Pentstemon cobea Nutt. 
In dry prairies in the eastern part of the state. Crete; Fairbury; 
Gage county; Lincoln. 
5. Pentstemon grandiflorus Nutt. 
In dry, sandy places over most of the state. Anselmo; Banner 
county; Belmont; Cass county; Fairbury; Grand Island; Kearney 
county; Lincoln; Valentine; Weeping Water. 
6. Pentstemon acuminatus Doug]. 
In dry soil mostly in the western part of the state. Antelope 
county. 
7. Pentstemon glaber Pursh. 
In moist, sandy soil, mostly in the western part of the state. Alli- 
ance; Banner county; Belmont; Harrison. 
8. Pentstemon angustifolius Pursh. 7 
In dry soil in the northwestern part of the state. Antelope county; 
she Butte county; Ft. Robinson; Mullen; Pine Ridge; Thedford; 
alentine. 
9. Pentstemon haydeni S. Wats. 
In the sand-hills, in the edge of “blow-outs.”’ Plummer Ford. 
5. Mimulus. 827. 
Flowers violet-purple, rarely white, leaves lanceolate. 1. M. ringens. 
Flowers yellow, leaves orbicular or nearly so. 2. M. geyeri. 
1. Mimulus ringens L. Monkey-flower. 
Banks of streams in the eastern part of the state. Foster; Grand 
Island; Lincoln; Red Bird creek; Valentine; Wahoo; Walton. 
2. Mimulus geyeri Torr. Yellow Monkey-flower. 
Common in wet places mostly along the banks of streams through- 
out the state. Bellevue; Buffalo county; Chelsea; Haigler; New 
Helena; Niobrara; Scotts Bluff; Thedford; Valentine. 
