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tively stout. Calyx-lobestriangular-obtuse. Corolla 8-12 
mm. long. Fertile filaments more evidently pulverulent. 
Sterile filament 1.8 mm. wide, yellow. Capsule pyramidal- 
acuminate, 5-10 mm. long. Seeds .8—-1 mm. long, reticu- 
late with transverse areas. Flowering in early summer. 1. S. leporella. 
Petioles slender, scarcely margined. Leaves narrowed to cord- 
se, more finely crenate-serrate. Inflorescence pyra- 
midal, 5-18 cm. wide, its branches slender. Calyx-lobes 
more broadly rounded. Corolla 6-8 mm. long. Fertile 
filaments very finely pulverulent. Sterile filament I mm. 
wide, purple-brown. Capsule ovoid, acute, 4-7 mm. long. 
Seeds .5-.8 mm. long, plump, reticulate with more nearly ; 
hexagonal areas. Flowering in late summer. 2. S. marilandica. 
SCROPHULARIA LEPORELLA Bickn. in Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 23: 
317. 1896. ‘‘Common near New York City. . . . I have 
met with it within eight miles of the Connecticut line and in 
the Pocono region of eastern Pennsylvania.” Specimen 
from Bronxville, Westchester Co., New York, collected 
by E. P. Bicknell June 15, 1895, seen in herbarium Colum- 
bia University at The New York Botanical Garden. 
Only inconstantly to be distinguished from 5S. occidentalis 
(Rydb.) Bicknell of the Rocky Mountain and High Plains states 
by its leaves being less coarsely and more evenly serrate (in 
occidentalis frequently coarsely toothed at base), and the branches 
of the inflorescence being usually less stout and less densely 
glandular. Probably better considered as a geographic variety. 
Flowering from mid-May to mid-July, fruiting from late June 
to late August. 
Meadows and thickets, loam, in potassic soil, frequent through- 
out above the Fall-line; less frequent or occasional on Long 
Island, and in the Middle and Cape May district of New Jersey- 
Ranges from Quebec to Connecticut and Virginia, westward to 
North Dakota and Nebraska where it appears to pass into Ry 
occidentalis. 
2. SCROPHULARIA MARILANDICA L., Sp. Pl. 619. 1753- “ Habi- 
tat in Virginia.” Linné had no specimen in his her- 
barium in 1753, but his description is copied from Hortus _ 
Upsalensis 177. 1748. From the diagnosis there given, 
especially the mention of leaves cordate serrate, and of 
