GENUS 29. 



FIGWORT FAMILY 



13. Agalinis Gattingeri Small. Gattinger's 

 Agalinis. Fig. 3830. 



Gerardia Gattingeri Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 1078. 1903. 



Annual, smooth or slightly scabrous; stem 8'-2 

 tall, wiry, with smooth very slender long branches. 

 Leaves numerous, linear-filiform or almost fili- 

 form, i'-ii' long, acute, smooth or slightly rough- 

 ened; pedicels spreading or ascending, filiform, 

 i'-i' long, less than twice the length of the leaves ; 

 calyx campanulate, its teeth subulate or linear- 

 subulate, much shorter than the tube; corolla rose 

 purple, 8"-io" long; capsules subglobose, if "-2" in 

 diameter. 



In dry soil or woods, Wisconsin and Iowa to Ten- 

 nessee and Texas. Aug.-Oct. 



30. OTOPHYLLA Benth. in DC. Prodr. 10: 512. 1846. 



Annual caulescent herbs, with hirsute-pubescent foliage. Leaves opposite ; blades entire 

 or pinnately divided, all or some of them auricled at the base, sessile. Flowers in terminal 

 spikes. Calyx of 5 partially united sepals. Corolla purple or rarely white; tube broadly 

 dilated at the throat ; lobes spreading. Stamens 4, didynamous, included ; filaments glabrous 

 or nearly so; anthers awnless, those of the shorter stamens much smaller than those of the 

 longer. Style slender. Stigma entire. Capsule oval or globose-oval, often minutely pointed. 

 Seeds angled. [Greek, meaning lobed leaf.] 



Two species in eastern North America. Type species : Gerardia auriculata Michx. 



Leaf-blades, or some of them, with 2 auricles at the base; corolla 8"-io" long; capsules over 

 5" long. i. O. auriculata. 



Leaf-blades parted into 3-7 linear segments; corolla i'-i%' long; capsules about K' long. 



2. O. densiflora. 



i. Otophylla auriculata (Michx.) Small. Auricled Gerardia. Fig. 3831. 



G. auriculata Michx. FI. Bor. Am. 2: 20. 1803. 

 Otophylla auriculata Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 1075. 1903. 



Annual, scabrous ; stem slender, simple, or 

 branched above, hirsute, i-2 high. Leaves lan- 

 ceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate at the apex, 

 sessile, mostly rounded and 2-lobed at the base, 

 or quite entire, i'-2' long, the basal lobes oblong 

 or lanceolate, obtusish, short; flowers solitary in 

 the upper axils, sessile, purple, 8"-io" long; ca- 

 lyx S-cleft, its lobes lanceolate, acute, slightly 

 unequal, as long as or longer than the tube ; co- 

 rolla densely puberulent outside, glabrous within ; 

 filaments glabrous ; anther-sacs obtuse at the 

 base; capsule oval-oblong, about i' high, a little 

 shorter than the calyx. 



In moist open soil, Pennsylvania to Illinois, Min- 

 nesota, North Carolina and Kansas. Adventive at 

 Woodbridge, N. J. July-Sept. 



