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Corolla deep golden-yellow, more or less marked with purple- 

 red within throat and at the bases of the lobes. Flowering in 

 August and September, and soon ripening fruit. 



Dry sandy longleaf pineland, central Louisiana. Ranges from 

 South Carolina and Florida to Louisiana. 



Louisiana. Natchitoches: Natchitoches, Cocks (L). 



4. Afzelia cassioides (Walt.) J. F. Gmel. 



Anonymos cassioides Walt., Fl. Carol. 171. 1788. Presumably from lower 



South Carolina. Description sufficiently distinctive. 

 Afzelia cassioides (Walt.) J. F. Gmel., Syst. 927. 1791. 

 Gerardia afzelia Miclix., FL Bor. Am. 2: 20. 1803. New name for Afzelia 



cassioides (Walt.) Gmel. 

 Seymeria tenuifolia Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 737. 1814. New name for Gerardia 



cassioides (Walt.) Pers. 



Corolla pale-yellow, more or less marked with purple-red within 

 throat and at the bases of the lobes. Flowering in September and 

 October, and soon ripening fruit. 



Sandy longleaf pineland, central Louisiana. Ranges from North 

 Carolina and Florida to Louisiana. 



Louisiana. Rapides: Alexandria, Cocks (L). 



24. AUREOLARIA Rafinesque. 



Aureolaria Raf., New Fl. Am. 2: 58. 1837. 



Type species, Aureolaria villosa Raf. 



Annual. Stem, leaves and calyx glandular-hirsute. Leaf-blades 

 bipinnatifid, pectinately toothed. Calyx-tube glandular- 

 hirsute, the lobes pectinately toothed. Corolla 30-40 mm. 

 long, externally glandular-pubescent, with pubescent below 

 posterior sinus and over bases of posterior lobes, more or less 

 marked or tinged with purple-red. Capsule glandular-pubes- 

 cent. Seeds .8-1 mm. long, not winged. {Panctenis Raf.) 



L A. pectinata. 

 Perennial^;. Not glandular. Leaf blades entire to domewhat 

 bipinnatifid, not pectinately cut. Calyx-tube not glandular, 

 the lobes entire to dentate. Corolla externally glabroi.d, 

 within glibrous or diffused -pubescent, uniformly yellow. 

 Capsule not glandular. Seeds L5-2.7 mm. long, strongly 

 winged. (Aureolaria, sensu strictu.) . 

 Capsule densely rusty-pubescent. Pedicels 1.5-3 mm. long. 



Stem puberulent to pubescent. 2. A. virginica. 



Capsule glabrous. Pedicels 3-15 mm. long. 



Plants densely cinereous-puberulent. Wings but one sixth 

 to one fifth the diameter of the seeds. Corolla 40-50 

 mm. long. 

 Calyx-lobes broadly lanceolate, evidently dentate. Bracts 



