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Type, Augusta, Georgia, collected in flower by Dr. William Bald- 

 win; in Herb. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



Wet pine-barrens, North Carolina^ to Florida and Alabama; also 

 in southern Delaware. Not seen growing. 



This has been confused with the northern Gratiola aurea Pursh, 

 of which perhaps it should be counted a southern variety. They may 

 be separated as follows: 



Plant erect or repent-ascending, 1-3 dm. long. Leaf-blades linear 

 to lanceolate, frequently denticulate distally. Pedicels 10-25 

 mm. long, usually equahng or exceeding the bracts. 



G. aurea. 



Plant repent and ascending, 2-4 dm. long. Leaf-blades lanceo- 

 late to lanceolate-ovate, usually more uniformly serrate. Pedi- 

 cels 7-15 mm. long, shorter than the bracts. G. georgiana. 



Beside the collection of Baldwin, Rugel 99 (U, Y) from an unstated 

 locality on Florida, and also collected very many years ago, is this 

 species. The plant is also well described by Elliott, "Sketch Bot. 

 S. C. & Ga.," 1: 13. 1816. It should be re-collected. 



3. Gratiola ramosa Walt. 



Gratiola ramosa Walt., Fl. Carol. 61. 1788. Type not verified, but de- 

 scriptive of this plant common in lower South Carolina. 



Gratiola quadridentata Michx., Fl. Bor. Amer. 1: 6. 1803. "Hab. in 

 Carolina inferiore [A. Michaux]." Type not verified, but description 

 sufficiently distinctive. 



Moist or wet sandy pineland, edge of ponds, common in the Coastal 

 Plain, South Carolina to southern Florida, west to southern Mississ- 

 ippi. Varies with frequently broader leaves inland, and with shorter 

 fleshier leaves in southern Florida. In the spring erect, but later 

 in the season the stems become lax, long and much branched. 



Flowering from March to September, and soon ripening fruit. 

 Corolla with tube dull-yellow, the lobes dull-white, the tube with 

 longitudinal brown lines. 



Pennell (Georgia)— 9523. (Florida)— 9657, 9669. 



4. Gratiola viscidula Pennell. 



Gratiola viscosa Schwein., Le Conte, Ann. Lye. N. Y. 1: 106. 1824. "In- 

 habits Virginia, and the upper parts of North Carolina." The plant 

 now considered, although the description appears inaccurate in stating 

 that the capsule is as long as the sepals. Type, from Salem, North Caro- 

 lina, seen in Herb. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Not G. 

 viscosa Hornem., Enum. PI. Hort. Hafn. 19. 1807. 



Gratiola viscidula Pennell, Torreya 19: 145. 1919. New name for G. 

 viscosa Schwein. 



6 Reported as "Gratiola aurea Muhl." in Hyam's "Flora of North Carohna," 

 N. C. Coll. A. & M. Arts, Bull. 164: 327. 1891; and in Mohr, Contrib. Nat. Herb. 

 6: 720. 1901, as from the Coast Plain of southern Alabama. 



