[ Reprinted from Torreya, Vol. 19, No. 6, June, 1919. | 
SCROPHULARIACEAE OF THE LOCAL FLORA. I 
By Francis W. PENNELL 
In commencing the systematic study of a family of plants for 
North America there is logic in studying first those species which 
occur in the eastern seaboard of the United States. These were 
the plants first known in detail, if not necessarily those earliest 
discovered, on this continent. From Massachusetts to Carolina 
we are on classic ground, and here the plant-life has been worked 
over so many times, and each species so often collected, that 
we may now speak with certainty of nearly all specific identities. 
The present study is concerned with but a portion of this 
territory, the counties included within the local flora range, of 
the Torrey Botanical Club and of the Philadelphia Botanical 
Club. These combined include all of Connecti¢ut; New York 
southeast of Columbia, Greene and Delaware counties inclusive; 
all of New Jersey; Pennsylvania southeast of Pike, Wayne, Lacka- 
wanna, Luzerne, Schuylkill, Lebanon, Dauphin and Lancaster 
counties inclusive; Newcastle county, Delaware; and Cecil 
county, Maryland. This area is in main part represented in 
the Torrey Club collection at the New York Botanical Garden, 
and the portion within approximately fifty miles of Philadelphia 
in the remarkably full and valuable collection of the Philadelphia 
Club at the Academy of Natural Sciences in that city. To both 
collections I have had free access, and the records below include 
data from these, the herbaria of Columbia University, the 
Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the University of Pennsylvania and 
several other institutions. To the curators of all I am appre- 
Ciative, 
Nearly all the species native or naturalized within the area 
