FIGWORT FAMILY. 719 
Pentstemon pentstemon (L.) Britton, Mem. Torr. Club, 5:291. 1894. 
SMOOTHISH BEARD-TONGUE. 
Chelone penistemon L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 2: 850. 1762. 
Pentstemon laevigatus Soland. in Ait. Hort. Kew. 2: 361. 1789. 
P. laevigatus var. multifiorus Chap. Fl. ed. 3, 309. 1897. 
" oe Sk. 2:128. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 381. Chap. Fl. 290. Gray, Syn. FI1.N. A. 2, pt. 
Carolinian area. Virginia and Pennsylvania west to Missouri and Arkansas, south 
to Tennessee and Georgia. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region. Madison County, Huntsville (Prof. L. M. Underwood). 
Flowers in April. Infrequent. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Hab. in Virginia.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Pentstemon smallii Heller, Bull. Torr. Club, 21:25. 1894. 
Perennial, 14 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. Underwood). 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.” 
PAULOWNIA Sieb. & Zucce. Fl. Jap. 1:25, t. 10. 1835. 
One species, Japan. 
Paulownia tomentosa (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. MOoNnkEY 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 regionto Lower hills. Damp grassy banks, margin of rivulets. 
Clay County, Moseley, 1,000 feet altitude. Cullman and Blount counties. Bibb 
County (#. 4. Smith). Tuscaloosa County. Flowers mauve-purple; August. One 
and one-half to 2 feet high. Notcommon. Perennial. 
Type locality: ‘‘Native of North America.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
GRATIOLA L.Sp.Pl.1:17. 1753. Herpes Hyssop. 
Twenty-five species, low perennials; temperate Europe. North America, 14. 
Atlantic, 12, mostly Southern. 
Gratiola floridana Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phila. 7:103. 1834. 
Fioripa HEpGE Hyssop. 
Chap. F1. 292. Gray, Syn. FIN. 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 
