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Stem glabrous, glaucous. Pedicels and calyx externally 

 glabrous. Anther-sacs ovate-lanceolate. 

 Stem slightly glaucous. Lower leaves from nearly en- 

 tire to more or less dentate or cut, rarely | distance 

 to midrib. 7a. A. flava reticulata. 



Stem quite glaucous. Lower leaves more or less pin- 

 nately cut, lowermost somewhat bipinnatifid, mostly 

 over I distance to midrib. 



7. A. flava. 

 Lower leaves lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, widest below 

 the middle, long-acuminate. Petioles very short, less 

 than 10 mm. long. Pedicels 3-8 mm. long. Calyx 

 sparingly pubescent to glabrous within. Corolla 30-35 

 mm. long. Capsule 10-12 mm. long. Seeds 1.5-1.7 

 mm. long. Stem slender, rarely purplish, not puberu- 

 lent nor glaucous. 8 A. laevigata. 



1. Aureolaria pedicularia (L.) Raf. 



Gerardia pedicularia L., Sp. PI. 611. 1753. "Habitat in Virginia, Can- 

 ada." Type not verified, but description sufficiently distinctive. 

 Aureolaria pedicularia Raf., New Fl. Amer. 2: 61. 1837. 



Dry oak-woods, sandy or rocky, perhaps in the Piedmont of 

 North Carolina. 1^ Ranges from Maine to Virginia (and Minnesota. 



Flowering in August and September, fruiting September and 

 October. Corolla yellow, externally more or less tinged with red- 

 dish, within at times with some purple-red spotting. 



la. Aureolaria pedicularia carolinensis Pennell. 



Aureolaria pedicularia carolinensis Pennell, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 40: 413. 

 1913. ''Type, savannahs near Mill Pond, Wilmington, Xorth Carolina, 

 June 23, 1909, J. M. Macfarlane in Herb. University of Pennsylvania." 



Dry sandy oak and mixed woods, pine -barrens of southeastern 

 North Carolina. 



Pennell (North Carolina)— 4925. 

 lb. Aureolaria pedicularia austromontana Pennell, var. no v. 



Stem glandular-pubescent to -hirsute above, with spreading short 

 hairs, and among these, usually outnumbering them and exceeding 

 them in length, gland tipped hairs, so that stem is very glandular. 

 Leaf-blades tending to lanceolate ovate, mostly deeply and sharply 

 cut, finely puberulent with gland tipped hairs, more rarely evidently 

 glandular-pubescent. Pedicels in flower 10-20 mm. long, in fruit 

 (12-) 18-25 mm. long. Calyx relatively sparingly pubescent with 

 gland-tipped hairs, its lobes 10-16 mm. long, linear-lanceolate to 

 lanceolate, relatively deeply lobed. Capsule 11-14 mm. long, 

 broadly ellipsoid. 



^'^ Aureolaria pedicularia caesariensis Pennell, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 40: 413, 

 1913, with leaves 1.2-5 cm. long, pedicels longer than bracts and stem not 

 glandular hirsute below, has been found in woodland in Orange Co., X. C. 



