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9. Penstemon tenuiflorus Pennell. 
Penstemon tenuiflorus Pennell, Addisonia 4: 79. pl. 160. 1919. ‘The type 
specimen was ecliected in loam soil in open pineland, three miles southeast 
of Albany, Morgan County, Alabama, on May 27, 1917, my number 9753, 
and is preserved in the herbarum of the New York Botanical Garden 
Stem 3-6 dm. tall, whitish-puberulent. Blades. of the fall ae 
leaves 3-9 cm. long, obscurely serrulate, puberulent to pubescent. 
Panicle narrow, its branches glandular-pubescent. Calyx-lobes 
ovate, 3-5 mm. long. Corolla 25-30 mm. long, its throat narrowly 
arched and keeled posteriorly, flattened and strongly two-ridged 
within anteriorly; externally glandular-puberulent, within pubescent 
with yellow hairs over the projecting bases of the anterior lobes; 
white, faintly tinged externally and on margins of lobes with violet, 
not lined within throat. Posterior lobes united two-thirds their 
length, their free portions erect-recurved. Sterile filament distally 
densely bearded with short lemon-yellow hairs. Capsule not seen. 
Open woodlands, in loam soil, western Tennessee and northern 
Alabama. Ranges north to Illinois and west to Oklahoma. 
Pennell (Alabama)—9753. 
CHELONE Linné. 
Chelone L., Sp. Pl. 611. ner 
Type species, C. glabra L. 
Leaf-blades sessile and somewhat clasping. 1. C. cuthbertit. 
Leaf-blades manifestly petioled. 
Leaf-blades of a lanceolate type, narrowed to short petioles. 
Corolla mepaagetbiige white-lanose within the throat. Sepals 
obscurely or not ci 2. C. glabra. 
Leaf-blades of an ovate (tse slightly cordate or narrowed into 
petioles 1.5-3 cm. long. Corolla rose-purple, yel oe 
within the throat. Sepals evidently ciliate. 3. C. lyon 
1. Chelone cuthbertii Small. 
Chelone cuthbertii Small, a 8. E. 289, in St. eK we BO Dna} 
in flower ea” eee nape pe t meadow, at an altitude of 3800 feet, 
Herb. eNet York Botanical Garden 
Wet iaeaua. western North fice Little known, and the 
relation between this and C. glabra should be studied in the field. 
Flowering in August. Not seen growing. 
2. ree: nee L. 
11. 1753. “Habitat in Virginia, Canada.” 
wd usc ant grown in the C lifford Garden in Holland. Descrip- 
ol upon a a plan 
tion sufficiently distinct 
Wet meadows and woodilicad swamps, through the southern 
Appalachians and Piedmont, common northward; descending into 
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