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pubescent, northward becoming progressively smaller and simpler, 
till a plant of but 0.5—1.0 dm. tall in Maine, leaves and calyx- 
lobes constantly obtuse, pedicels shorter than the bracts, corolla. 
scarcely 15 mm. long, and anther-sacs nearly glabrous. 
PLANTS AND SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
New Jersey: Keasbey; Long Beach; Forked River; Barnegat Pier; 
Beach Haven; Atlantic City; Ventnor; Mays Landing; Ocean 
City; Palermo; Sea Isle; Peermont; Cape May Court House 
(2604); Holly Beach; Five-mile Beach; Cold Spring (2157); 
Cape May. 
Delaware: , Bernhardt. 
Maryland: Ocean City. 
Virginia: Parksley; Walnut Point. 
North Carolina: Ocracoke Island; Beaufort. 
Florida: Titusville; Eau Gallie; Marco; Sanibel; Pine Island; 
Tampa; Long Key, Pinellas Co.; Hernando Co.; St. Marks 
(4702); Apalachicola. 
Alabama: Mobile Co. 
Mississippi: Ship Island. 
Louisiana: Breton Island. 
3. AGALINIS PURPUREA (L.) Pennell, Bull. Torrey Club 40: 
126. 1913 
Gerardia purpurea L. Sp. Pl. 610. 1753. ‘Habitat in Virginia, 
Canada.” | 
Anonymos purpurea (L.) Walt. Fl. Carol. 170. 1788. 
Gerardia purpurea grandiflora Benth. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag- 
I: 208. 1835-6. ‘‘ New Jersey.” 
Agalinis palustris Raf. New Fl. Am. 2: 62. 1837. ‘‘Near 
marshes. . . . From New England to Carolina.”’ 
Agalinis longifolia Raf. New Fl. Am. 2: 62. 1836. ‘Near 
streams New Jersey to Virginia.” 
(?) Agalinis corymbosa Raf. New Fl. Am. 2:63. 1837. ‘‘Caro- 
lina and Florida.” 
Flowers, mid-July to mid-October. Fruit, late-September to 
October. 
DisTRIBUTION: Moist sandy soil, nearly throughout the coastal 
