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22a. Agalinis tenuifolia leucanthera (Raf.) Pennell, comb. nov. 



Gerardia leucanthera Raf., Fl. Ludov. 50. 1817. Louisiana. C.C.Robin. 

 Type not .seen. 



Stem 4-10 dm. tall, wideh^ much branched. Pedicels .5-1.5 

 times the length of the bracts. Corolla 15-23 mm. long. Capsule 

 6-7 mm. long. Seeds apparently slightly longer and more evidently 

 reticulate. 



Usually in moist soil, loam or clay, more rarely in sand, wood- 

 land or meadow, especially near streams, in alluvial or limestone 

 soils, in the Coastal Plain from southern Georgia and northern 

 Florida to eastern Texas. 



Pennell (Georgia)— 4759. (Florida)— 4601, 4670, 4699, 4721. 

 (Alabama)— 4522, 4597, 4606, 4619. 



22b. Agalinis tenuifolia macrophylla (Benth.) Blake. 



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

 "St. Louis, Jacksonville." Drummond. Fragment of type, from Kew 

 Herbarium, labeled "St. Louis," .seen. 



Gerardia besseyana Britton, Mem. Torr. Bot. Club 5: 295. 1894. New- 

 name for Gerardia tenuifolia macrophylla Benth., not Gerardia macro- 

 phylla (Nutt.) Benth. 



Agalinis tenuifolia macrophylla (Benth.) Blake, Rhodora 20: 71. 1918. 



In situations similar to that of the species, but more frequent 

 along river-banks, from northern Alabama and Mississippi north- 

 ward. Ranges from southern Ontario and Minnesota south to 

 Alabama and Oklahoma. 



Pennell (Alabama) — 5719. (Mississippi) — 5685. (Tennessee) — 

 5714. 



22c. Agalinis tenuifolia polyphylla (Small) Pemiell, comb. nov. 



Gerardia polyphylla Small, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 25: 618. 1898. "The 

 original specimens were collected by the writer on Little Stone Moun- 

 tain, De Kalb County, Georgia, in September, 1895." Tj'pe seen in 

 Herb. New York Botanical Garden. 



Dry light soil over granite, locally in the granite region of central 

 Georgia. 



Pennell (Georgia)— 4065, 5696, 5699. 



23. Agalinis divaricata (Chapm.) Pennell. 



Gerardia divaricata Chapm., Fl. S. Un. St. 299. Mar., 1860. "Low sandy 



pine barrens, West Florida." No type indicated, but numerous specimens 



collected and distributed by the describer seen. 

 Gerardia mettaueri Wood, Class-Book 5.30. Dec, 1860. "Wet sandy 



places. Middle Fla. (Dr. Mettauer.)" Type seen in herbarium of 



Columbia University at the New York Botanical Garden. 

 Gerardia metlaueri clausa Wood, 1. c. 530. 1860. "With the others," that 



is, with the species and G. mettaueri nuda. No specimen so labeled seen. 

 Agalinis divaricata (Chapm.) Pennell, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 40: 437. 1913. 



Dry sandy longleaf pineland, western Florida and southeastern 

 Alabama, mostly abundant. 



