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PLANTS AND SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
Delaware: Ellendale. 
North Carolina: Wilmington; Brunswick Co. 
South Carolina: Hartsville; Santee Canal; Eutawville. 
Georgia: Everett; Brunswick (4823); Waycross (4790); Naylor 
(4745); Thomasville (4729); Sumter Co.; Columbus. 
Florida: Tisomia (4813); Baldwin; Jacksonville (4794); St. 
Nicholas; San Pablo (4807); Cutler; Homestead; Camp Long- 
view; Fort Myers; St. Petersburg; St. Marks (4714); Quincy; 
Fort Gadsden (4690); Apalachicola; Chipley (4648, 4666); 
Ponce de Leon (4654); Paxton (4600). 
Alabama: Elmore. 
Mississippi: Biloxi. 
Louisiana: Hammond. 
2. AGALINIS MARITIMA Raf. in Med. Repos. New York. IInd. 
hex. 5: 361. 1808 (as Gerardia); New Fl. Am. 2: 62. 1837 
Gerardia maritima Raf. ‘‘Found in the islands of Egg-Harbour, 
in New Jersey.’’ No type known to exist. 
Gerardia purpurea crassifolia Pursh Fl. Am. Sept. 2: 422. 1814. 
“In salt marshes, near New York.”’ 
Gerardia maritima grandiflora Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. 
I: 208. 1835-6. ‘Texas, Drummond, Ist Coll.” 
Gerardia spiciflora Engelm. Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist. 5: 227. 1845. 
New name for Gerardia maritima grandiflora Benth. 
Gerardia maritima major Chapm. Fl. So. U. S. 300. 1860. 
“Brackish marshes, Apalachicola, Florida.” There are several 
collections of Chapman’s of this species, but none, indicated 
as type, has been seen. 
Flowers, April (on the Gulf coast) to mid-September. Fruit, 
August to September. : 
DISTRIBUTION: Salt marshes, along the Atlantic and Gulf 
coasts from New Jersey to Louisiana, locally frequent. Extending 
to Maine northward, in the south to Texas, Yucatan, Cuba and 
the Bahamas. Along the Gulf coast and Atlantic coast in Florida 
a much branched plant, reaching 6 dm. tall, leaves and calyx- 
lobes more liable to be acutish, pedicels mostly exceeding the 
bracts, corolla reaching 20 mm. long, and anther-sacs lanose- 
