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8. Aureolaria pectinata (Nutt.) Pennell, comb. nov. 
Gerardia pedicularia pectinata Nutt. Gen. Plant. N. Am. 2: 48. 
187-65: In the sandy pine forests of Carolina and 
‘Georgia.’”’ No type in Herb. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia. 
Gerardia pectinata (Nutt.) Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. 1: 
206. 1835-6. 
Panctenis pectinata (Nutt.) Raf. New Fl. Am. 2: 61. 1837. 
Dasystoma pectinata (Nutt.) Benth. in DC. Prodr. 10: 52. 1846. 
Very variable, as here understood, including a number of 
strains. . 
Flowers, July to September. Fruit, September to October. 
DISTRIBUTION: Dry sandy pineland, especially hilly, in the 
coastal plain, South Carolina, through southern Georgia, pine 
hills of northwest Florida, to Alabama and Mississippi, locally 
frequent extending above the fall line. In some of its forms occur- 
ring throughout the Gulf and Lower Mississippi Valley states. 
PLANTS AND SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
South Carolina: Eutawville; Santee Canal; Monks Corner; Cooper 
River; Beaufort. 
Georgia: Augusta; Thomson; Americus. 
Florida: De Funiak Springs. 
Alabama: Florala (4625); Flomaton; Prattville; Tensaw; Deer 
Park; Mobile; Spring Hill (4532). 
Mississippi: Meridian; Jackson. 
9. Aureolaria pectinata floridana Pennell, subsp. nov. 
Annual. Stem about 10 dm, tall, much branched, glandular- 
villose. Branches virgate, ascending. Leaves sessile, ovate, 
those of the stem less than 2 cm. long, pinnatifid, segments pec- 
tinately toothed, glandular-villose; at least the upper leaves 
ascending or appressed to the stem or branches, the uppermost 
much reduced. Pedicels stout, 5 mm. long or less, shorter than 
the calyx, glandular-villose. Calyx-tube glandular-villose, much 
exceeded by the lanceolate, pectinate teeth. Corolla 40-45 
(-50) mm. long, yellow, no purple markings within tube (in 
type specimens). Capsule 12-14 mm. long, broadly ovoid, 
glandular-pubescent, shorter than the calyx. 
Type, Fort Gadsden, Franklin Co., Florida, Sept. 20, 1912, 
F. W. Pennell 4683, in Herb. University of Pennsylvania. 
