SCROPHULARIACEAE. 



Vol. III. 



4. Agalinis purpurea (L.) Britton. Large 



Purple Agalinis. Fig. 3821. 

 Gerardia purpurea L. Sp. PI. 610. 1753. 

 1, racemulosa Pennel, Torreya 11: 15. 191 1. 



Annual, glabrous, smooth, or roughish ; stem 

 slender, branched, l-2j high, the branches 

 spreading. Leaves narrowly linear, usually widely 

 spreading, l'-l4' long, about 1" wide, rarely with 

 smaller ones fascicled in their axils; flowers race- 

 mose on the branches, purple (rarely white), 

 about 1' long and broad; pedicels shorter than 

 or but little longer than the campanulate calyx, 

 even in fruit ; calyx-teeth triangular-lanceolate or 

 ovate-oblong, acute, one-third to one-half the 

 length of the tube; corolla much expanded above, 

 villous or nearly glabrous within, pubescent with- 

 out, the lobes ciliolate; anthers all alike, the sacs 

 mucronulate at the base; filaments villous; cap- 

 sule globose, 2"-z" in diameter, longer than the 

 calyx. 



In moist fields and meadows, Maine to Florida, 

 Indiana, Wisconsin, Missouri and Texas. Aug.-Oct. 



5. Agalinis fasciculata (Ell.) Raf. Fascicled 

 Agalinis. Fig. 3822. 



Gerardia fasciculata Ell. Bot. S. C. & Ga. 2 : 115. 



Gerardia fasciculata Ell. Bot. S. C. & Ga. 2 : 115. 1824. 



Annual, finely pubescent and scabrous; stems l}-4 tall, 

 often puberulent or sparingly hispidulous, fastigiately branch- 

 ed. Leaves numerous, the larger ones with conspicuous clus- 

 ters of smaller ones in their axils, linear, mostly less than 1" 

 wide, acute, very scabrous; flowers racemose, often numer- 

 ous, purple, about 1' long; pedicel shorter than the calyx; 

 calyx-tube campanulate, It' if " high, the teeth usually mi- 

 nute, often less than 1" long; corolla abruptly expanded 

 above the short tube, minutely pubescent without, copiously 

 pubescent within, the lobes ciliolate; capsule 2"-2i" in diam- 

 eter, becoming longer than the calyx. 



In marshes or sometimes in dry soil, Virginia to Florida and 

 Texas. Aug.-Oct. 



6. Agalinis paupercula (A Gray) Britton. 

 Small-flowered Agalinis. Fig. 3823. 



Gerardia purpurea var. paupercula A. Gray, Syn. 2 : 



Part 1, 293. 1878. 

 Gerardia intermedia Porter; A. Gray, loc. cit. As 



synonym. 1878. 

 G. paupercula Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 5 : 295. 1894. 



Annual, glabrous and smooth or very nearly 

 so ; stems strict, branched above, 6'-i8' high, the 

 branches nearly erect. Leaves narrowly linear, 

 J'-l' long, i"-i" wide, spreading or ascending; 

 pedicels equalling the calyx, or longer in fruit; 

 calyx campanulate, its teeth about one-half the 

 length of the tube, triangular-lanceolate, acute, or 

 acuminate; corolla 6"-io" long, puberulent, rose 

 purple, its limb about as broad, somewhat villous 

 in the throat within, the lobes ciliate; stamens 

 very villous; anther-sacs mucronulate at the base; 

 capsule globose-oblong, 3" high, longer than the 

 calyx. 



In bogs and low meadows, Nova Scotia to New 

 Jersey, Tennessee, Manitoba and Wisconsin ; appar- 

 ently also in Georgia and South Carolina. Juiy-Sept. 



