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2. Aureolaria virginica (L.) Pennell. 



Rhinanthus virginicus L., Sp. PI. 603. 1753. "Habitat in Virginia." Type, 

 Clayton 488, is identified by Dr. S. F. Blake in Rhodora 20: 66, 1918, as 

 the species here considered. 



Aureolaria villosa Raf., New Fl. Am. 2: 59. 1837. No type locality stated, 

 nor type known to exist. Description sufficiently distinctive. 



Aureolaria virginica (L.) Pennell, in Bull. Torr. Bot. Club. 40: 409. 1913. 



Corolla yellow, with no tinge of purple-red. Flowering in June 

 or July. 



Open sandy woodland, among oaks, in central Louisiana. Ran- 

 ges from New Hampshire to Michigan, south to Florida and Louisi- 

 ana. Unknown elsewhere west of the Mississippi River. 



Louisiana. Rapides: Alexandria, Hale (L). 



3. Aureolaria grandiflora (Benth.) Pennell. 



Gerardia grandiflora Benth., in Comp. Bot. Mag. 1: 206. 1826. "Province 

 of Texas, Drummond." Type, Drummond 293, seen in Kew Herbarium. 



Dasijstoma drurmno7idii Benth., in DC. Prod. 10: 520. 1846. "In Texas 

 (Drummond\) Gerardia grandiflora Benthl . . . (v. s.)" Type, iden- 

 tical with preceding, Drummond 293, seen in Kew Herbarium. 



Aureolaria grandiflora (Benth.) Pennell in Rhodosa 20: 135. 1918. 



Probably in sandy oak woods. Coastal Plain of southeastern 

 Texas. Including varieties, the species ranges northward to Wis- 

 consin. Flowering in June and July. 



Texas. Austin: San Felipe, Drummond 293 (H, K). Harris: 

 Houston, Hall 420 (H, K, M, U, Y). Waller: Hempstead, Hall 

 419 (H, M, U, Y) 



3a. Aureolaria grandiflora cinerea Pennell, var. nov. 



Stem 10-12 dm. tall, more densely cinereous-puberulent. Peti- 

 oles about 10-15 mm. long. Lower leaves lanceolate to ovate 

 lanceolate usually more deeply incised, though only at times in 

 broad basal portion of lowest leaves reaching nearly to the midrib, 

 (5-) 9-15 cm. long, with 2-6 pairs of lateral lobes, rarely nearly entire, 

 upper leaves smaller, though larger than in the species, and less cut; 

 bracts nearly entire, or more frequently serrate, or even laciniate 

 toward the base; leaves more cinerous. Pedicels stouter. Calyx- 

 lobes 8-12 mm. long, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, entire or slightly 

 dentate. Capsule 13-17 mm. long. Otherwise as in the species. 



Type: Neck, Jasper Co., Missouri, collected in fruit, F. W. Pennell 

 5374; in Herb. University of Pennsylvania. 



Corolla yellow, with no tinge of purple-red. Flowering in July 

 and August, fruiting September and October. 



Dry oak-woods, red loam or on usually more or less sandy soil, 

 from the valley of the Missouri River in central Missouri to the 

 upper Trinity River in Texas. 



