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southern Appalachians; scarcely entering the southern Coastal Plain, 

 where it passes into the following variety. In the southwestern 

 Appalachians and westward, largely replaced by several ill-defined 

 varieties, to be characterized in the writer's monograph of this 

 group. This species has been known as ''Gerardia virginica" and 

 '' Dasy stoma virginica." 



Flowering from mid -July to mid-September, fruiting late August 

 to October. Corolla yellow, with no tinge of purple -red. 



Pennell (Georgia)— 4109, 5693, 5712. (Alabama)— 5688, 9728, 

 9750. (Tennessee) — 5704, 5718. 



7a. Aureolaria flava reticulata (Raf.) Pennell, comb. nov. 



Aureoiaria reticulata Raf., New Fl. Amer. 2: 59. 1837. "Florida and 

 Alabama." No type known to exist. 



Dasy stoma bignoniiflora Small, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 1 : 285. 1899. "Col- 

 lected by Dr. Burrows, at Tampa Bay, Florida, in 1834." Type seen 

 in Herb. Columbia University at the New York Botanical Garden. 



Sandy ravines and moist woodland, in the Coastal Plain from 

 Maryland to central Florida. Replaces the species in the southern 

 Coastal Plain. 



Flowering from late-August to mid-October, fruiting in Septem- 

 ber and October, 



Pennell (South Carolina)— 4875. (Georgia)— 4723, 4765. (Flor- 

 ida)^565, 4566, 4696, 4698, 4720, 9703. 



8. Aureolaria laevigata (Raf.) Raf. 



Gerardia levigata Raf., Ann. Nat. 13. 1820. "It gi'ows on the knob 

 hills of Kentucky, the Cumberland mountains and the Alleghany." 

 Specimen in Herb. Columbia University at the New York Botanical 

 Garden labeled in Rafinesque's handwriting "Gerardia — n. sp. — Ken- 

 tucky," may be the type. Description sufficiently distinctive. 



Aureolaria levigata (Raf.) Raf., New Fl. Amer. 2: 59. 1837. 



Rocky oak-woods, along streams or on mountain-sides, frequent 

 or common through the Appalachians south to northwestern South 

 Carolina and eastern Tennessee. Ranges northward to Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



Flowering from late July to early September, fruiting in Septem- 

 ber and October. Corolla yellow, with no tinge of purple-red. 



Pennell (Tennessee)— 5721, 5726, 9791. 



32. AGALINIS Raflnesque. 



Agalinis Raf., New Fl. Amer. 2: 61. 1837. 



Type species, A. palustris Raf. 



Perennial, from a running rootstock. Pedicels erect. Corolla 

 slightly fleshy, pink with darker spots, but with no yellow lines 

 within throat. {Linifolice.) 1. A. Unifolia. 



