370 Karl M. Wiegand and Arthur J. Eames 



[Collinsia Nutt.] 

 [C. verna Nutt. Blue-eyed Mary. 

 "Ithaca, Aikin" (Torrey, Fl. N. Y.). Not found since, and probably an error.] 



3. Scrophularia (Tourn.) L. 



c. Sterile stamen purple ; leaves slender-petioled, rounded or cordate at base, serrate ; 



panicle broad, branches loosely flowered ; stem with grooved sides, glabrous ; 



in flower July 15-Sept. 1. 1. S. marilandica 



a. Sterile stamen greenish yellow ; leaves with shorter and stouter petioles, 



more truncate at base, incised-serrate ; panicle narrower, branches more densely 



flowered ; stem with flat sides, usually puberulent ; in flower June 10-July 20. 



2. S. lance olata 



1. S. marilandica L. (S. nodosa of Cayuga Fl., in part.) Figwort. 



Moist thickets and banks, on rich gravelly or alluvial bottom lands; frequent. 

 July 15-Sept. 1. 



Bank of Inlet at Negundo Woods ; in gravel, upper Coy Glen ; e. side of Percy 

 Field ; at several stations near Renwick ; Fall Creek, at Forest Home and toward 

 Varna ; gravel bars and alluvial woods in Salmon Creek below Genoa ; Taughan- 

 nock Gorge; Paine Creek; Big Gully; low field near Canoga Marshes; along 

 Clyde River, Galen ; and elsewhere. 



Me. to S. Dak., southw. to N. C, Ga., Tenn., Kans., and La. ; infrequent or 

 rare on the Coastal Plain. 



2. S. lanceolata Pursh. (See Torreya 22:81. 1922. 5". leporella of Gray's Man., 



ed. 7. 5". nodosa of Cayuga FL, in part.) 



Thickets and open fields, usually in drier upland, more or less sterile, situations ; 

 more frequent. June 10-July 20. 



Gravelly roadside n. w. of Cayuta Lake ; dry field, top of South Pinnacle, Caro- 

 line; n. e. of Caroline; pasture near Besemer ; dry pasture s. of Buttermilk Falls; 

 n. of Fall Creek, above Forest Home ; roadside, Etna ; low fields, Mill Creek, 

 Dryden ; dry knolls, Malloryville ; border of dry woods, s. of Cayuga Heights ; 

 roadside n. of East Lansing ; Lake Ridge ; Duck Lake ; and elsewhere. 



N. B. and Que. to Minn., southw. to N. C. and Mo. ; perhaps more frequent than 

 the preceding species on the Coastal Plain. 



The stems of this species are more often purple than in S. marilandica, the 

 flowers are often larger, the corolla is more lustrous, and the lobes of the upper 

 lip are more oblong. The capsule also is usually more conical and firmer-walled. 

 These differences are, however, not constant. 



4. Penstemon 32 (Mitch.) Schmidel 



0. Stem villous or puberulent ; corolla but slightly expanded upward, distinctly 



2-lipped, the throat partly closed. 1. P. hirsutus 



a. Stem glabrous below the inflorescence ; corolla expanded upward, nearly regular, 

 the throat open. ' 2. P. laevigatus, 



var. Digitalis 



1. P. hirsutus (L.) Willd. (P. pubescens of Cayuga Fl.) Beard-Tongue. 



Dry rocky and stony fields and ledges, occasionally in gravel, in more or less 

 calcareous soils ; abundant in places. May 20-July 10. 



" Generally spelled Pentstemon. For the spelling here adopted, see Pennell, Contr. U. S. Nat. 

 Herb. 20 : 325. 1920. 



