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conspicuously shorter than the subtending leaf --22.
21b. Pedicels much longer than the calyx, and generally equaling or
exceeding the subtending leaf --24.
22a. Plants of moist ground, bogs, and shores --23.
22b. Plants of dry uplands =Gerardia, Gerardia aspera.=
23a. Corolla about 25 mm. long =Gerardia, Gerardia purpurea.=
23b. Corolla less than 20 mm. long =Gerardia, Gerardia paupercula.=
24a. Stem rough on the angles --25.
24b. Stem glabrous =Gerardia, Gerardia tenuifolia.=
25a. Leaves 2-5 mm. wide
=Gerardia, Gerardia tenuifolia var. macrophylla.=
25b. Leaves thread-like, 1 mm. wide or less
=Gerardia, Gerardia skinneriana.=
26a. Corolla 16 mm. long, or shorter --27.
26b. Corolla 20 mm. long, or longer --32.
27a. Corolla dull-purple, brown, or greenish; one sterile stamen present
(1-2.5 m. high; flowers in summer) (Figwort) --28.
27b. Corolla blue or white (1-4 dm. high) --29.
28a. Sterile stamen purple =Figwort, Scrophularia marilandica.=
28b. Sterile stamen yellow =Figwort, Scrophularia leporella.=
29a. Flowers nearly or quite sessile (summer) --30.
29b. Flowers on pedicels 10 mm. long or more (spring) --31.
30a. Foliage-leaves prominently toothed --6b.
30b. Foliage-leaves entire, or with 1 or 2 small teeth at the base
=Cow Wheat, Melampyrum lineare.=
31a. Corolla more than 10 mm. long, blue and white
=Blue-eyed Mary, Collinsia verna.=
31b. Corolla 5-8 mm. long, blue and white
=Collinsia, Collinsia parviflora.=
32a. Flowers solitary in the axils of the upper foliage-leaves (4-8
dm. high; flowers blue, in summer) (Monkey Flower) --33.
32b. Flowers in dense terminal or subterminal spikes (3-9 dm. high;
summer) --34.
32c. Flowers in loose terminal panicles (flowers white or
pale-violet) (Beard-tongue) --35.
33a. Leaves clasping at the base =Monkey Flower, Mimulus ringens.=
33b. Leaves petioled, not clasping =Monkey Flower, Mimulus alatus.=
34a. Stem and foliage glabrous (flowers white)
=Turtlehead, Chelone glabra.=
34b. Stem and foliage pubescent (flowers pur
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