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outside, slightly irregular, funnelform, not widely spreading at the mouth, 

 pubescent within, the margin five-lobed. Stamens four, in two pairs. 

 Fruit an oblong, smooth, pointed capsule about twice as long as the calyx. 

 In dry or moist woods and thickets, Maine to Minnesota, south to 

 Florida and Illinois. Flowering from July to September. 



The Downy False Foxglove, Aureolaria virginica (Linnaeus) 

 Pennell, [Aureolaria villosa (Muhlenberg) Rafinesque ; D a s y - 

 stoma pubescens Benthem ; D . f 1 a v a Wood ; Rhinanthus 

 v i r g i n i c u s and Gerardia f 1 a v a Linnaeus] is grayish downy all 

 over with fewer, stiff, erect stems; leaves entire or shall owly toothed or the 

 lower ones somewhat pinnatifid ; corolla smooth outside, much expanded at 

 the end; the fruiting capsule pubescent. Common in dry woods and 

 thickets, especially in the southern part of the State. 



Large Purple Gerardia 



Agalinis pur pur ea (Linnaeus) Pennell 

 (Gerardia purpurea Linnaeus) 



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Stems slender or rather stout, branched, annual, smooth or somewhat 

 roughish, 8 to 25 inches high with ascending or spreading branches. Leaves 

 opposite, narrowly linear, i to 2 inches long. Flowers purple or rarely 

 white, racemose on the branches, their stalks very short. Calyx bell- 

 shaped with five pointed, triangular-ovate teeth about half the length of 

 the tube. Corolla with a bell-shaped tube and a spreading, five-lobed and 

 slightly two-lipped limb, hairy without and more or less so within. Stamens 

 four, attached to the corolla tube within and not projecting out of the flower. 

 Fruit a globose capsule somewhat longer than the calyx. 



In moist fields and meadows, Maine to Florida, most abundant in 

 the coastal region, but also found westward to Wisconsin and Missouri. 



Slender Gerardia 



Agalinis tenuifolia (Vahl) Rafinesque 

 (Gerardia tenuifolia Vahl.) 



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An annual, smooth herb with very slender stems, 6 to 24 inches high, 

 and narrow, flat leaves one-half to ij inches long which become blackened 



