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11. Agalinis laxa Pennell. 



Agalinis laxa Pennell, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 40: 431. 1913. "Type, 

 Brunswick, Glynn Co., Georgia, Oct. 10, 1912, F. W. Pennell 4824, in 

 Herb. University of Pennsylvania." 



Dry sandy longleaf pineland, or more especially on river-sandhills 

 and old dunes, near the coast. South Carolina to central Florida. 



Flowering in late September and October, and soon ripening 

 fruit. Corolla pink, with two yellow lines and, especially along 

 these, small purple-red spots within throat anteriorly. 



Pennell (South Carolina)-^880. (Georgia)— 4778, 4783, 4824. 

 (Florida)— 4801, 4805. 



12. Agalinis holmiana (Greene) PenneU. 



Gerardia holmiana Greene, Pittonia 4: 52. pi. 10. 1899. "Plentiful in open 

 pine and oak groves along Michigan Avenue south of the Soldiers' Home 

 grounds near Brookland, D. C, collected by Mr. Holm and the writer, 

 20 Oct., 1898." Probable type seen in the herbarium of the New York 

 Botanical Garden, and I have myself collected the plant at the type 

 station. 



Agalinis holmiana (Greene) Pennell, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 40: 429. 1913. 



Dry sandy pineland, in the Coastal Plain; near the coast south 

 to South Carolina, and apparently in the sand-hills near the Fall- 

 Line southwestward into Georgia. Ranges northward to Long 

 Island, New York. 



Flowering from late August to mid-October, and soon ripening 

 fruit. Corolla rose-pink, with two yellow lines, and, especially 

 along these, small purple -red spots within throat anteriorly. 



Pennell (North Carolina)— 4904, 4923, 4929. (South Carolina)— 

 4864. 



13. Agalinis stenophylla Pennell, sp. nov. 



Plant dull-green or purplish, tending to blacken in drying. Stem 

 6-7 dm. tall, slender, with many ascending branches, essentially 

 glabrous. Leaves ascending-spreading, filiform-setaceous, entire, 

 acuminate, those of the stem 2-3 cm. long, .1-.3 mm. wide; scabro- 

 roughened to glabrous above. Axillary fascicles scarcely or not 

 developed. Racemes scarcely elongate, often broken, usually but 

 one flower of each pair developed, 1-6 flowered. Pedicels ascend- 

 ing, glabrous, in flower 8-12 mm. long, in fruit 15-20 mm. long, 

 2-2.5 times the length of the bracts, some on all the branches appear- 

 ing "terminal." Caljoc-tube 2.5 mm. long, hemispheric-campanu- 

 late, f-| the length of the capsule, truncate, its lobes .1-.3 mm. 

 long, triangular -subulate, not callose. Corolla 17-20 mm. long; its 

 tube 11-17 mm. long, slightly upcurved, its lobes 6-7 mm. long, 

 rounded to retuse, all spreading; externally minutely pubescent. 



