(A) Turtle-head (Chelone glabra). This is a mois¬ 
ture loving plant found in swamps. 
The stem is stout, smooth and erect, from 1 to 3 feet 
tall. The leaves are lance-shaped, stemmed, pointed and 
toothed. The flowers are clustered in a short spike at 
the summit of the stem, the corolla is tubular, about 
an inch in length and is white, tinged with pink. The 
upper lip is broad, arched, creased and notched in the 
middle; the lower lip is three lobed and woolly-bearded 
in the throat. Turtlehead blooms from July until Sep¬ 
tember and ranges from Newfoundland to Manitoba and 
southwards. 
(B) Pentesmon; Beard-tongue (Pentesmon hirsu- 
tus) has a straight, slender woolly stem that grows 
from 1 to 3 feet high. The leaves are light green, lance¬ 
shaped, rough-edged or minutely toothed, the upper ones 
seated oppositely on the stem and the lower ones with 
short petioles. The small magenta-white flowers are in 
panicled racemes. The trumpet-shaped corolla has two 
lobes to the upper lip and three on the lower, the throat 
nearly closed by a hairy palate on the lower lip. Me. 
to Wisconsin and southwards. 
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