1919.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 277 



Leaves linear-filiform to filiform, .3-1 mm. wide, those of 

 the stem scarcely wider than those of the branches. 



22c. -4. tenuifolia polyphylla. 

 Corolla glabrous externally, its posterior lobes less than one- 

 half the length of the anterior, conspicuously ciliate, flat- 

 tened. Pedicels at least three times the length of the 

 bracts. 

 Leaves filiform, those of the stem 1.5-2 cm. long. Racemes 

 well-developed, so flowers not appearing "terminal." 

 Pedicels 20-32 mm. long, three to twelve times the length 

 of the bracts. Corolla 15-18 mm. long, rose-pink. 

 Plant widely much branched. 



23. A. cUvaricata. 

 Leaves minute, triangular-subulate, .1-.2 cm. long. Flowers 

 scattered, mostly appearing "terminal." Pedicels 6-10 

 mm. long, many times the length of the bracts. Cor- 

 olla 10-13 mm. long, lavender-pink. Plant sparingly 

 very laxly branched. 24. A. filicauUs. 



1. Agalinis linifolia (Nutt.) Britton. 



Gerardia linifolia Nutt., Gen. PI. N. Amer. 2: 47. 1818. "Hab. From 

 Wilmington, North Carolina, to Florida." Tj^pe, labeled "Carolina," 

 and collected by T. Nuttall, seen in Herb. Academy of Natural Sciences 

 of Philadelphia. 



Agalinis perennis Raf., New Fl. Amer. 2: 63. 1837. "My specimen is 

 from Florida." Type not known to exist, but description quite dis- 

 tinctive. 



Agalinis linifolia (Nutt.) Britton; Britton & Brown, 111. Fl. ed. II. 3: 209. 

 1913. 



Wet sandy pineland, usually about margins of ponds in long- 

 leaf pineland, in the Coastal Plain from North Carolina to southern 

 Florida and west to Louisiana. Northward occurs in southern 

 Delaware. 



Flowering from mid-August to October, fruiting September to 

 November. Corolla pink, with no yellow lines but with diffused 

 purple-red spots within throat anteriorly. 



Pennell (Georgia)— 4729, 4745, 4790, 4823. (Florida)— 4600, 

 4648, 4654, 4666, 4690, 4714, 4794, 4807, 4813. 



2. Agalinis spiciflora (Engelm.) Pennell, comb. nov. 



Gerardia maritima grandiflora Bentb., Comp. Bot. Mag. 1: 208. 1836. 

 "Texas, Drummond, (1st Coll.)" Type in Kew Herbarium verified by 

 Dr. N. E. Brown as agreeing -with my number 4702 from Florida; isotype 

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



Gerardia spiciflora Engelm., Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. 5: 227. 1845. New 

 name for Gerardia maritima grandiflora Benth. 



Gerardia maritima major Chapm., Fl. S. Un. St. 300. 1860. "Brackish 

 marshes, Apalachicola, Florida." Different collections of this, made by 

 Dr. Chapman, seen. 



Salt marshes, along the coast from North Carolina to Texas. 



Ranges through the West Indies and on the shore of Yucatan. Prob- 



