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within pubescent below sinus and over entire wndtli of basal por- 

 tions of posterior lobes ; probably rose pink (not seen fresh) . Anther- 

 sacs 1.7-2 mm. long, lanceolate, acuminate at distal apex, lanate 

 with white hairs on the valvular surface. Style glabrous. Stigma 

 1.5-2 mm. long. Capsule 3-4 mm. long, globose -ovoid, dark-brown. 

 Seeds .5-. 6 mm. long; testa dark-brown to nearly black, with reticu- 

 lations heavy and relatively remote; intra-reticular lines not dis- 

 cernible. 



Type, Tampa, Florida, collected in flower and young fruit Oc- 

 tober, 1877, A. P. Garber 281 ; in Herb. Academy of Natural Sciences 

 of Philadelphia. 



Known only from the original collection. 



14. Agalinis setacea (Walt.) Raf. 



Anonymos setacea Walt., Fl. Car. 170. 1788. Supposedly from lower 

 South Carolina, but probably from much further west. Type in the 

 British Museum identified by Dr. A. B. Rendle as agreeing with my 

 number 4757 from Cobb, Sumter Co., Georgia. 



Gerardia -plukenetii Ell., Sketch Bot. S. C. and Ga. 2: 114. 1822. "Grows 

 in wet spungy soils, very common between the Oakmulgee and Chata- 

 houchie Rivers." Type seen in the Elliott Herbarium at the Charleston 

 Museum. Statement of habitat probably due to confusion with Agalinis 

 'pinetorum Pennell. 



Agalinis setacea (Walt.) Raf., New Fl. Amer. 2: 64. 1837. 



Gerardia filifolia gatesii Benth., in DC. Prod. 10: 518. 1846. "In Ala- 

 bama (Gates!)." Type in the Kew Herbarium, identified, frum a frag- 

 ment sent me, as this species. 



Dry open sandy pineland. In the Coastal Plain from western 

 Georgia and northern Florida to eastern Mississippi, usually in long- 

 leaf pineland; inland in pinewoods on mountain-slopes through 

 northern Georgia and northern Alabama. 



Flowering from mid-September to October, and soon ripening 

 fruit. Corolla rose-pink, with two j^ellow lines and many small 

 diffused purple-red spots within throat anteriorly. 



Pennell (Georgia)— 4757, 5710. (Florida)— 4569, 4570, 4583, 

 4584, 4672. (Alabama)— 4426, 4457, 4461, 4517, 4523, 4524, 4561, 

 4623, 5690. (Mississippi)— 4382. 



15. Agalinis keyensis Pennell, sp. nov. 



Plant dull-green, tending to blacken in drying. Stem at least 

 7 dm. tall, slender, with many spreading-ascending branches, spar- 

 ingly scabrellous or glabrous. Leaves spreading, filiform, entire, 

 acuminate, those of the stem (lowest not seen) .8-1.2 cm. long, 

 .2-.4 mm. wide; scabrous above. Axillary fascicles none. Racemes 

 not elongate, much broken and but one flower of each pair devel- 

 oped, 1-4 flowered. Pedicels ascending, glabrous, in flower 3-4 

 mm. long, in fruit 4-6 mm. long, about equaling the bracts, some 



