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Calyx-lobes acute, one-third to one-half the length of the tube. 
Anterior lobe of the corolla about half as long as the portion 
of the anterior lip below the base of the lateral lobes. 
H. glomeratus. 
16. LEUCOSPORA Nuttall. 
Leucospora Nutt., Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 7: 87. 1834. 
Type species, Capraria multifida Michx. 
1. Leuscopora multifida (Michx.) Nutt. 
Capraria multifida Michx., Fl. Bor. Amer. 2: 22. pl. 35. 1805. “Hab. 
in ripis arenosis fluminum amniculorum que, in Jennassée et Illinoensi 
. ” Type not verified, but description and plate certainly o 
s s here considered. 
F Patches multifida (Michx.) Nutt., 1. c. 87. 1834. 
Sandy or loam banks of brooks or rivers, in open meadows or 
along shores, also in “Cedar Glades,’ Tennessee west of the Cum- 
berland Mountains, to western Alabama and central Mississippi. 
Ranges from southwestern Ontario to Kansas, south to Alabama and 
exas. 
Flowering from June to October, and soon ripening fruit. Corolla 
pale-lavender, deeper on lobes, and lined with deeper lavender; tube 
within at base greenish-yellow, then yellow on the anterior side, 
and toward mouth with a purplish ring; white at base of the lavender 
anterior lobes. This plant has been placed in the very different 
tropical genus Conobea Aubl. 
17. VERBASCUM Linné. 
Verbascum L., Sp. Pl. 177. 1758. 
Type species, V. thapsus L., of Europe. 
Stem glabrous or with cls gland-tipped hairs above. Leaves 
glabrous. Pedicels 10-15 mm. long. Filaments all densely 
lanose with knobbed purple hairs. Capsule subglobose, glandu- 
lar-puberulent. Seeds .8-.9 mm. long, awe 
4 
V. blattaria. 
Stem pubescent with stellate oe hairs. Leaves, at least 
beneath, pubescent. Pedicels gin than 10 mm. long. Fila- 
: thr 
glabrous, with filiform vale hairs. Capsules ovoid to 
obo stellate-pubescent. Seeds .4-—.7 mm. long, brownish- 
Lent blades crenate, glabrate above, those of the stem sessile. 
Pedicels usually several in an axil. Sepals about one-half 
length of capsule. Inflorescence not pena crowde 
Inflorescence a simple raceme, the s 1-5 to an axil. 
Capsule globose, 7-8 mm . long. passing green and slightly 
pubescent beneath. 2. V. virgatum. 
