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contracts, but persists, while the calyx-lobes continue to grow, 
becoming quite lobed and leaf-like [= M. fuchsioides]. 
Flowers, August to October. Fruit, September to October. 
DisTRIBUTION: Borders of wet sandy thickets, in lower coastal 
pine belt and coast district, southern Georgia and northern 
Florida to southern Mississippi. Frequent in pine hill region of 
northwestern Florida, and in southern Alabama. Restricted to 
the coastal plain. 
PLANTS AND SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
Georgia: Probably Liberty Co., LeConte; Thomasville. 
Florida: Quincy; Beverly (4681); Argyle; Crestview; Milligan 
(4595); Milton (4564); Bluff Springs. 
Alabama: McRae (4641); Bay Minette (4553); Mobile; Whistler 
(4534); Theodore (4406, 4459, 4462). 
Mississippi: Ocean Springs; Biloxi. 
2. AFZELIA J. F. Gmel. curante L. Syst. Nat. ed. 13. 927. 1791 
Stem closely pubescent, viscid; leaves pinnatisected, ati 
lanceolate or broader; calyx-lobes lanceolate; corolla dee pdpied 
pubescent without, its lobes ovate, 3-3.5 mm. ce nthers 
lanose with yellow hairs on dorsal side of connective; ek 
ovate, oa! mm. long, densely shott tomentose with brown hairs; 
ds winged. Plant low, 2-6 dm. tall, widely branched. 1. A. pectinata. 
Stem ates pubescent, scarcely glandular; leaves pinnatifid, : 
segments filiform; calyx-lobes linear; corolla pale yellow, gla- 
brous without, its lobes lanceolate, 1.5-2 mm. aaa anthers 
glabrous; capsule inversely pyriform, 4-4.5 mm. long, glabrous; 
seeds wingless. Plant tall, 5-10 dm., virgately branched. 2. A. cassioides. 
I. AFZELIA PECTINATA (Pursh) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 1: 457. 1891 
Seymeria pectinata Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 2: 737. 1814. “In 
South Carolina. Catesby—yv. s. in Herb. Sherard.”’ 
Seymeria Jacksoni Ell. Sketch 2: 123. 1824. ‘Sent to me from 
Louisville, Ga., by Mr. Jackson.” Type seen in the Elliott 
Herbarium at the Charleston Museum. 
Seymeria heterophylla Raf. New Fl. Am.2: 68. 1837. ‘‘Alabama 
and Georgia, my specimen from Leconte.” 
Flowers, August to September. Fruit, mid-September to 
October. 
DistTRIBUTION: Dry sandy pineland in the coastal plain from 
