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considered, although any extant type should be examined. Specimens 

 from Salem, North Carolina, collected by Schweinitz and labeled "mega- 

 locarpa," seen in Herb. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 

 Gratiola caroliniensis Le Conte, Ann. Lye. N. Y. 1: 105. 1824. "In- 

 habits in wet grounds from Carolina to Florida." Description sufficiently 

 distinctive. Probable type, collected by Le Conte at " Shallowford," 

 seen in Herb. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



Wet loam, in shade, usually along streams, common through the 

 Piedmont, not ascending into the Appalachians; and through the 

 Coastal Plain south to central Florida. Ranges from New Jersey 

 to Florida and Texas, inland in the Mississippi Valley to Illinois and 

 Missouri. 



Flowering from March to May, fruiting May to June. Corolla 

 white, within with longitudinal purple lines, more pronounced on 

 posterior side. 



Pennell (Georgia)— 9506. (Florida)— 9705, 9714. (Alabama)— 

 9726. 



7. SOPHRONANTHE Bentham. 



Sophronanthe Bentham; Lindl., Nat. Syst. Bet., ed. II, 445. 1836. 



Type species, S. hispida Benth. 



1. Sophronanthe hispida Benth. 



Sophronanthe hispida Benth., 1. c. 445. 1836. "The plant was gathered 

 by Drummond at Apalachicola." Isotype, Drummond 20, seen in Herb. 

 Columbia University at the New York Botanical Garden. 



Gratiola subulata Baldwin; Benth., in DC. Prod. 10: 405. 1846. "In 

 Florida ( . . . Baldwin! . . • )•" Specimen collected by Bald- 

 win, labeled "W. Florida, St. Marys river, south side," so probably an 

 isotype, seen in Herb. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



Dry sandy pineland, Coastal Plain, southern Georgia to Louisiana, 

 south through the Florida peninsula to Dade County. 



Flowering from late April to September, and soon ripening fruit; 

 in southern Florida flowering and fruiting throughout the year. 

 Corolla with tube externally yellowish-white, on lobes and within 

 white. 



Pennell (Georgia)— 9528. (Florida)— 9660, 9676, 9689, 9700. 



8. RANAPALUS Kellogg. 

 Ranapalus Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. 7: 113. 1877. 

 Type species, R. eisenii Kell., of California. 



1. Ranapalus rotundifolius (Michx.) Pennell, comb. nov. 



Monniera rotundifolia Michx., Fl. Bor. Amer. 2: 22. 1803. "Hab. in 

 regione Illinoensi [A. Michaux]." Type not verified, but description 

 sufficiently distinctive. 



Aquatic in shallow mud-bottomed open ponds, central and west- 

 ern Tennessee. Through the Mississippi Valley from Indiana and 

 Tennessee to North Dakota, eastern Colorado and northern Texas. 



