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tively stout. Calj-x-lobes triangular-obtuse. Corolla 8-12 

 mm. long. Fertile filaments more evidentlj' pulverulent. 

 Sterile filament 1.8 mm. wide, 3-ellow. Capsule pyramidal- 

 acuminate, s-io mm. long. Seeds .8-1 mm. long, reticu- 

 late with transverse areas. Flowering in early summer. i. S.leporella. 

 Petioles slender, scarcely margined. Leaves narrowed to cord- 

 ate at base, more finely crenate-serrate. Inflorescence pj'ra- 

 midal, 5-18 cm. wide, its branches slender. Cah-x-lobes 

 more broadly rounded. Corolla 6-8 mm. long. Fertile 

 filaments very finely pulverulent. Sterile filament i mm. 

 wide, purple-brown. Capsule ovoid, acute, 4-7 mm. long. 

 Seeds .5-.8 mm. long, plump, reticulate with more nearly 

 hexagonal areas. Flowering in late summer. 2. 5. marilandica. 



ScROPHULARiA LEPORELLA Bickn. in Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 23: 

 317. 1896. " Common near New York City. . . . I have 

 met with it within eight miles of the Connecticut line and in 

 the Pocono region of eastern Pennsylvania." Specimen 

 from Bronxville, Westchester Co., New York, collected 

 by E. P. Bicknell June 15, 1895, seen in herbarium Colum- 

 bia University at The New York Botanical Garden. 

 Only inconstantly to be distinguished from S. occidentalis 

 (Rydb.) Bicknell of the Rocky Mountain and High Plains states 

 by its leaves being less coarsely and more evenly serrate (in 

 occidentalis frequently coarsely toothed at base), and the branches 

 of the inflorescence being usually less stoiit and less densely 

 glandular. Probably better considered as a geographic variety. 

 Flowering from mid-May to mid-July, fruiting from late June 

 to late August. 



Meadows and thickets, loam, in potassic soil, frequent through- 

 out above the Fall-line; less frequent or occasional on Long 

 Island, and in the Middle and Cape May district of New Jersey. 

 Ranges from Quebec to Connecticut and Virginia, westward to 

 North Dakota and Nebraska where it appears to pass into S. 

 occidentalis. 



2. SCROPHULARIA MARILANDICA L., Sp. PI. 619. I753. "Habi- 

 tat in Virginia." Linne had no specimen in his her- 

 barium in 1753, but his description is copied from Hortus 

 Upsalensis 177. 1748. From the diagnosis there given, 

 especially the mention of leaves cordate serrate, and of 



