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Swales and along streams, above the fall-line, through the Pied- 

 mont, ascending to the valleys of the southern Appalachians. Dela- 

 ware to northern Georgia and eastern Tennessee. 



Flowering from late June to September, and soon ripening fruit. 

 Not seen growing. 



5. Gratiola neglects Torr. 



Gratiola neglecta Torr., Cat. PI. N. Y. 89. 1819. "Within thirty miles of 

 the City of New York." Type probably seen in herbarium of- Columbia 

 University at the New York Botanical Garden. For discussion see 

 Torreya 19: 146. 1919. 



Wet loam, usually in deciduous woodland, frequent through the 

 Piedmont, both east and west of the Appalachians; apparently not 

 in the Coastal Plain, nor ascending appreciably into the mountains. 

 Ranges across the continent northward, south in the East to north- 

 ern Georgia and northern Alabama. 



Flowering from April to June, and soon ripening fruit. Corolla 

 with tube greenish-yellow, the lobes white, at times pinkish-tinged. 



Pennell (Georgia)— 9509. (Alabama)— 9760, 9769, 9784. 



6. Gratiola floridana Nutt. 



Gratiola floridana Nutt., Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 7: 103. 1834. "Hab. 

 near Chipola, in West Florida [in Herb. Academy of Natural Sciences]." 

 Type, labeled "Gratiola * grandiflora," collected in 1830, seen in Herb. 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



Gratiola macrantha Chapm., Fl. S. Un. St. ed. III. 311. 1897. "Cool 

 springs near Quincy, Middle Florida." Distinguished from G. floridana 

 by having the staminodia present and relatively conspicuous. In this 

 species, as in G. neglecta, the .size of the rudiments of the antero-lateral 

 stamens is quite variable. 



Muddy banks and in wet woods, loam soil, in river-bottoms in the 

 Coastal Plain, southern Georgia, southern Alabama and northern 

 Florida; apparently occurring inland to the base of the mountains 

 of northeastern Georgia and northeastern Alabama. 



Flowering in April and May, fruiting in May and June. Corolla 

 w'hite, or pinkish on the lobes, yellow over base of the posterior 

 lobes, and marked with longitudinal fine purple lines. 



Pennell (Florida)— 9704. 



7. Gratiola virginiana L. 



Gratiola virginiana L., Sp. PI. 17. 1753. "Habitat in Virginia." For 

 discussion of the type of this see S. F. Blake in Rhodora 20: 65. 1918. 

 . Gratiola sphaerocarpa Ell., Sketch Bot. S. C. and Ga. 1: 14. 1816. "Grows 

 in ponds 4 miles from Charleston [South Carolina], on the neck." De- 

 scription distinctive, made from plants which flowered in the autumn. 

 Type seen in the Elliott Herbarium at the Charleston Museum. 



Gratiola megalocarpa Ell., 1. c. 16. 1816. "Grows in ditches and pools 

 from Pennsylvania to Carolina. Pursh." Ex Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. 12. 

 1814. "In ditches and pools: Pensylvania to Carohna . . . v. v." 

 With a plant of his own, Pursh combined an account of Walter's Gh-atiola 

 acuminata; his own plant would appear to have been the species now 



