§& NORTH AMERICAN 



sinuate dentate, flowers racemose, bracts linear 

 entire, peduncles equal to calix. segments lan- 

 ceolate — Mts. Alleghany rare, stem pedal dark 

 purple, leaves 2 to 4 inches, upper narrow, ca- 

 lix broadly camp, subbilabiate, corollas large. 

 Very different from Gerardia cuneifolia of 

 Pursh, nearer to A. glauca. 



365. AuREOLARiA RUPESTRis Raf. Gcr. do. 

 R. Atl. Journ. p. 154. quite smooth, stem fistu- 

 lose purplish, leaves petiolate bipinnatifid seg- 

 ments deep lanceolate acute remote, sinusses 

 rounded, upper leaves oblong pectinate lacirii- 

 niate. racemes often ramose, bracts lanceol. en- 

 tire, flowers secund peduncled, segments of ca- 

 lix lanceol. acute— in the Alleghany Mts. on 

 rocks, Tuscorora chain &c, probably blended 

 with the next by Authors, 2 or 3 feet high, often 

 ramose, leaves large below and twice cut, nar- 

 rower above, flowers smaller than in the other 

 kinds. 



366. AuREOLARTA GLAUCA Raf. Gcr. do. Ed- 

 dy, Eaton, Tor. Beck, G. quercifolia Pursh, 

 Elliot. G. flava Walter, Rhinanthus Virgini- 

 cus L. — Quite distinct from the last by larger 

 size, stem solid glaucous, leaves subsessile the 

 lower sinuate pinnatifid, attenuate at both ends, 

 a little rough, upper entire, raceme paniculate, 

 bracts linear, segments of calix linear elongate 

 — from I^ong Island to Carolina and West in 

 the prairies of Kentucky, where it attains 6 

 feet var. 1. Glgnntea, 2 purpurea stem pur- 

 plish. 



367. PANCTENIS Raf. (quite combed) 

 diff". Aureolaria, calix urceolate 5fid segments 

 unequal foliaceous pectinate or crenate. Co- 

 rolla hairy outside, stamens quite hairy, cap- 

 sule polysperm. Flowers axillary, this may 



