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line, acute to acuminate, brownish, densely rusty-pubescent with 

 reflexed-appressed brown hairs. Seeds 1.3-1.5 mm. long, broadly 

 angular-lunate, flattened; testa gray, with reticulations dark, pro- 

 duced on outer side into several thin wings ^\ diameter of seed. 



Type, Stevenson, Jackson Co., Alabama, collected in fruit Oc- 

 tober 17, 1913, F. W. Pennell 5720, in Herb. University of Penn- 

 sylvania. 



Dry oak-woods, on siliceous soil, southeastern Tennessee to south- 

 ern Alabama and northwestern Florida, especially in the southern 

 Cumberland ]Mountains. 



Flowering from earh^ June to late August, fruiting August to 

 October. 



Pennell (Georgia)— 5711. (Alabama)— 5720, 9739, 9742. (Ten- 

 nessee) — ^5703, 5706, 5715. 



5. Aureolaria patula (Chapm.) Pennell. comb. nov. 



Dasystoma patula Chapm. Bot. Gaz. 3: 10. 1878. "Valley of the Coosa 

 River, near Rome, Georgia." Several collections of Chapman's seen, 

 one labeled "Banks of Horse-leg Creek, a tributary of the Coosa River," 

 in Herb. New York Botanical Garden, may stand as the type. 



Wooded bluffs along rivers, central and eastern Tennessee, and 

 northwestern Georgia. 



Flowering from August to October. Corolla j^ellow, with no 

 tinge of purple -red. 



Pennell (Tennessee) — 5722. 



6. Aureolaria dispersa (Small) Pennell. 



Dasystoma dispersa Small, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 28: 452. 1901. "Louisi- 

 ana: Feliciana, Carpenter; type in the herbarium of Columbia Univer- 

 sity." Type seen in Herb. Columbia University at the Xew York Bo- 

 tanical Garden. 



Aureolaria dispersa (Small) Pennell, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 40: 411. 1913. 



Sandy thickets and oak-land, pineland from southern Alabama 

 to Louisiana. 



Flowering in August and September, fruiting in October. 



Pennell (Alabama) — 4504, 4521. (Mississippi) — 4384. (Louisi- 

 ana)— 4117, 4245. 



7. Aureolaria flava (L.) Farwell. 



Gerardia flava L., Sp. PI. 610. 1753. "Habitat in Virginia, Canada." 



Specimen in Linnean Herbarium identified by Bentham; see in Comp. 



Bot. Mag. 1: 198. 1836. 

 Gerardia quercifolia Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. 2: 423. pi. 19. 1814. "On the 



banks of rivers in rich shady places: Pensylvania to Carolina." Tj'pe 



not verified, but description sufficiently distinctive. 

 Aureolaria flava (L.) Farwell, Rep. Mich. Acad. Sci. 20: 188. 1918. 



Oak woodland, usually on rocky hillsides, loam or sometimes 



sandy soil, nearly throughout above the Fall-Line, common in the 



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