368 PENNELL: THE SPECIES OF KNEIFFIA 
Oenothera florida Salisb. Prod. 278. 1798. New name for O. 
fruticosa L. . 
Oenothera linearis Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer. 1: 225. 1803. ‘‘Hab. 
in Carolina superiore.’’ Type not seen or verified. 
Kneiffia angustifolia Spach, Nouv. Ann. Mus. Par. 4: 367. 1835. 
“Habitat in Georgia, Carolina, et Virginia.’’ Type not seen 
or verified. 
Kneiffia linearis Spach, Hist. Veg. 4: 376. 1835. 
Kueiffia longipedicellata Small, Bull. Torrey Club 23: 178. 1896. 
“West Virginia to North Carolina and Florida.”” Type, 
“Albemarle Co., Virginia,’ collected May 21, 1889, W. C. 
Rives, seen in the herbarium of Columbia University at the 
New York Botanical Garden. 
Kneiffia fruticosa Raimann; Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 
gt: 3145 180s) 
Oenothera longipedicellata Robinson, Rhodora 10: 34. 1908. 
Open soil, sandy or barren, mostly in the Coastal Plain although 
extending inland upon suitable soils (as in the serpentine barrens 
of southeastern Pennsylvania and eastern Maryland), Long Island 
to Florida, Missouri and Texas. 
5a. Kneiffia fruticosa humifusa (Allen) Pennell, comb. nov. 
Oenothera fruticosa humifusa Allen, Bull. Torrey Club 1: 3. 1870. 
Type, “Montauk Point Long Island. [7. F. Allen.] July 
1869,” seen in the herbarium of Columbia University at the 
New York Botanical Garden. 
Knetffiia linearis Alleni Britton, Mem. Torrey Club 5: 235. 1894. 
Based on Oenothera fruticosa humifusa Allen. 
Knerfia Alleni Small, Bull. Torrey Club 23: 177. 1894. 
(?) Oenothera linearis Eamesii Robinson, Rhodora 10: 34. 1908. 
‘Sandy shore of a salt pond, Stratford, Connecticut, E. H. 
Eames (type hb. Gray).’’ Perhaps rather a form of the 
species, approaching humifusa. 
(?) Ocenothera friticosa Hamestt Blake, Rhodora 20: 50. 1918. 
Sandy soil, eastern Long Island, New York, and perhaps on 
the Connecticut coast. Said to be of very distinct appearance and, 
locally near Montauk, to be extremely abundant. Specimens 
elsewhere along the coast approach the habit of this. 
