180 SCROPHULARIACEAE, Vou. TIT, 
Scrophularia neglécta Rydb. differs from S. marylandica in the pubescent leaves, the larger 
corollas and larger capsules; it occurs in the western part of our range. 
2. Scrophularia leporélla Bicknell. Hare 
Iigwort. lig. 3750. 
Scrophularia leporella Bicknell, Bull, Torr, Club 23: 
317. 1896. 
Stem puberulent below, viscid-glandular above, 
sharply 4-angled with flat sides, 3°-8° tall, simple, 
or somewhat branched. Leaves short-petioled, 
ovate to lanceolate, acuminate at the apex, mostly 
narrowed at the base, but sometimes subcordate, 
glabrous on both sides when mature, usually in- 
cised-dentate, 2’-10’ long; flowers 4-5” long, in 
elongated narrow thyrses; bractlets mostly alter- 
nate; calyx-lobes ovate, obtuse, or acute; corolla 
contracted at the throat, green to purple and 
shining without, dull within, the two lateral lobes 
erect; lobes of the upper lip often narrowly 
oblong; sterile stamen greenish yellow; capsule 
ovoid-conic. 
In woods and along roadsides, Vermont to Minne- 
sota, Virginia and Kansas. Ascends to 3500 ft, in 
Virginia. May-July. 
3. Scrophularia occidentalis (Rydb.) Bicknell. Western Iigwort. Tig. 3751. 
Scrophularia nodosa occidentalis Rydb. Contr. Nat. Herb. 
3: 517. 1896. 
Scrophularia occidentalis Bicknell, Bull. Torr. Club 23: 
315. 1896. 
Similar to S. leporella in habit, but with densely 
glandular panicle-branches. Stem more or less glandu- 
lar; leaf-blades ovate to lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 
incised or incised-serrate, at least those of the lower 
leaves hastately incised at the base; corolla 4”-5” long, 
the upper Jip much shorter than the tube; capsules 
ovoid, 34’-4” long. 
In low grounds and thickets, South Dakota to Oklahoma, 
Washington and California. June-Aug. 
8. CHELONE [Tourn.] L. Sp. Pl. 6rr. 1753. 
Perennial, mostly glabrous branched or simple herbs, 
with opposite serrate petioled leaves, and large white 
red or purple flowers, in terminal and axillary dense 
spikes. Calyx 5-parted, bracted at the base, the seg- 
ments ovate or lanceolate. Corolla irregular, the tube 
elongated, enlarged above, the limb 2-lipped; upper lip 
concave, emarginate or entire, exterior in the bud; 
lower lip spreading, woolly within, 3-lobed, its lateral lobes sometimes longer than the middle 
one. Stamens 5, included, 4 of them antherifcrous, didynamous, the fifth sterile, smaller; 
filaments slender, woolly; anthers woolly, cordate. Style filiform; stigma small, capitate. 
Capsule ovoid, septicidally dehiscent. Seeds numerous, compressed, winged. [Greek, tor- 
toise, the head of which the corolla resembles. ] 
Three species, natives of eastern North America. Type species: Chelone glabra L. 
Corolla white to purplish ; bracts not ciliolate. 1, C. glabra, 
Corolla red or rose-purple ; bracts ciliolate. 
Leaves oblong or lanceolate. 2. C. obliqua. 
Leaves ovate, acuminate ; mountain plant. 3. C. Lyoni. 
