1919.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 285 



This and related species have been known as ''Gerardia skm- 

 neria7ia." 



Pennell (North Carolina) ^9 10, 4915, 4926, 4933. (South Caro- 

 lina)-^870, 4879. (Georgia)-4733. (Florida)— 4596, 4640, 4646, 

 4659, 4667, 4685, 4710, 4797, 4804, 4815. (Alabama)— 4428, 4453, 

 4503, 4526, 4548, 4562, 4614, 4634. (Mississippi)— 4363, 4399. 

 (Louisiana)— 4226, 4227, 4231. 



21. Agalinis gattingeri (Small) Small. 



Gerardia tenuifolia leptophylla Benth., Comp. Bot. Mag. 1: 174. 1836. 

 "Jacksonville, Louisiana." Drummond. Type, doubtless from Louisi- 

 ana, seen in Kew Herbarium. 



Gerardia tenuifolia filiformis Benth., in DC. Prod. 10: 518. 1846. "South- 

 ern States." Type labeled "Amer. bor. Rafinesque. Gerardia filiformis 

 Raf.," seen in Kew Herbarium. 



Gerardia gattingeri Small, Fl. S. E. Un. St. 1078, 1338. 1903. "Type, 

 Curtiss N. A. PI. no. 1910* in Herb. C. U." Type, collected by A. Gat- 

 tinger on hills around Nashville, Tennessee, seen in Herb. Columbia 

 University at the New York Botanical Garden. 



Agalinis gattingeri (Small) Small, in Britton & Brown, 111. Fl. N. Un. St. 

 andCan.ed. II. 3:213. 1913. 



Dry to moist, sandy or clayey soil, woodland, barrens or open 

 bluffs, in central Tennessee and northern Alabama. Ranges from 

 southwestern Ontario to Minnesota, south to Alabama and eastern 

 Texas. 



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

 fruit. Corolla pink, with two yellow lines and several to many 

 rather large purple -red spots within throat anteriorly. 



Pennell (Tennessee)^ — 5705. 



22. Agalinis tenuifolia (Yahl) Raf. 



Gerardia tenuifolia Vahl, Symb. Bot. 3: 7. 1794. "Habitat in America 

 septentrionali." Type in Herb. Universitetets Botaniske Museum, Co- 

 penhagen, Denmark, collected by Von Rohren, and said to be probably 

 from Philadelphia, is identified by Dr. C. H. Ostenfeld as agreeing with 

 my number 2681 from Pennsylvania. 



Agalinis tenuifolia (Vahl) Raf., New Fl. Amer. 2: 64. 1837. 



Loam or sandy soil, moist or dry, usually in open deciduous wood- 

 land, common throughout above the Fall-line, through the eastern 

 Appalachians, southward smaller-leaved, passing into var. foly- 

 phylla, westward, mainly near river-banks, passing into var. mac- 

 rophylla; descending into the Coastal Plain locally in heavier soils, 

 as limestone, and in river-bottoms, there passing into var. leucan- 

 thera. Ranges from Maine to Michigan, south to Georgia and 

 Louisiana. 



Flowering from August to October, and soon ripening fruit. Cor- 

 olla purplish -pink, with two yellow lines and small diffused purple- 

 red spots within throat anteriorly. 



Pennell (Georgia)— 4091. 



