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Stem-leaves lanceolate, finely crenate, yellowish-green, 

 very densely pubescent. Inflorescence crowded. 

 Pedicels very short to none, one to an axil. Corolla 

 20-22 mm. wide. 4- V. Thapsus. 



i. Verbascum blattaria L. 



Flowering from mid-June to mid-August, fruiting from early 

 July on. 



Loam soil, cultivated fields, common throughout the area 

 above the Fall-line, rarely recorded from the Coastal Plain. 

 Naturalized from Eurasia. 



2. Verbascum lychnitis L. 



Flowering from late June to August, fruiting from August on. 

 Loam soil, roadsides, local in the area above the Fall-line, 

 especially near the cities. Naturalized from Eurasia. 



3. Verbascum phlomoides L. 

 Collected in flower in July and August. 



Probably sandy soil, cultivated fields; rare. Garden City, 

 L. I.; Lindenwold, N. J. Adventitive from Eurasia. 



4. Verbascum thapsus L. 



Flowering from mid-July to late August, fruiting in August 

 and September. 



Mainly in loam soil, fields and roadsides; common throughout, 

 mainly above the Fall-line. Naturalized from Eurasia. 



2. Penstemon [Mitchell Schmidel, Icones Plantarum 2. 1762 

 Type species, Chelone Penstemon L., " Habitat in Virginia." 



Corolla funnelform; throat tubular; lobes widely spreading; 

 puberulent within. Leaves entire or the upper slightly 

 serrulate, glabrous, under a lens evidently puncticulate. 

 Seeds strongly ridge-angled. i. P. tubiflorus. 



Corolla with throat tubular near base, then abruptly inflated; 

 pubescent within at base of anterior lobes. Leaves more 

 or less denticulate, not evidently puncticulate under a 

 lens. Seeds not strongly ridge-angled. 

 Corolla with throat inflated, its mouth open, not closed by 

 the anterior lip. Sterile filament slightiy to moder- 

 ately densely bearded. Calyx-lobes ovate-lanceolate 

 to lanceolate. Plants taller, glabrous to puberulent. 



