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Gerardia setacea (Walt.) J. F. Gmel. curante L. Syst. Nat. ed. 
O27 - 1991. 
Gerardia Plukenetit Ell. Sketch 2: 114. 1824. ‘‘Grows in wet 
spungy soils, very common between the Oakmulgee and Chata- 
houchie Rivers.’’ Type seen in the Elliott Herbarium at the 
Charleston Museum. Statement of habitat probably due to 
confusion with A galinis pinetorum Pennell. 
Agalinis Plukenetii (Ell.) Raf. New Fl. Am. 2: 63. 1837. 
Agalimis setacea (Walt.) Raf. As to synonymy, not description, 
_ the latter probably applying to A. erecta (Walt.) Pennell. 
Gerardia filifolia Gatesii Benth. in DC. Prodr. 10: 518. 1846. 
“In Alabama (Gates!).’”’ Type in the Kew Herbarium, 
identified, from fragment sent me, as this species. 
Flowers, mid-September to October. Fruit, not seen, probably 
late-October to November. 
DistrRiBpuTION: Dry open sandy pineland. In the coastal 
plain from western Georgia and northern Florida to eastern 
Mississippi. Frequent from Sumter County, Georgia, westward 
through the pine hills of western Florida and southern Alabama 
to southeastern Mississippi, abundant toward the coast. One 
record from the Florida Keys,—Pine Key, Blodgett—likely due to 
mixing of labels. Occasional above the fall line in northern Ala- 
bama and northern Georgia. 
PLANTS AND SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
Georgia: Cobb (4757); Cuthbert. 
Florida: Apalachicola (4672); Milligan (4583, 4584); Milton 
(4509, 4570). , See 
Alabama: Auburn; Wright’s Mill; Tuskegee; Clayton; Florala 
(4623); Bay Minette (456z); Mobile; Spring Hill (4524); 
Crichton (4523); Theodore (4420, 4457, 4401, 4517). 
Mississippi: Meridian; Biloxi (4382). 
14. Agalinis laxa Pennell, sp. nov. 
Annual. Plant 6-10 dm. tall, widely and very laxly branched. 
Stem nearly terete below, slightly angled above, glabrous. Leaves 
‘spreading, opposite nearly throughout, narrowly linear to nearly 
filiform, nearly glabrous, those of the stem 2-3 cm. long. Axillary 
fascicles scarcely or not developed. Racemes of 3-8 mostly 
