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Gerardia linifolia Nutt. Flax-leaf Gerardia. 
Low pine bowers. Rankin Co.; Bay St. Louis. August. 
Geol. Surv. Herb. 
Allison Herb. 
Gerardia Purpurea (L.) Purple Gerardia. 
Low and swampy open ground in northern and central 
parts of the state. Marion Co. (Hilg. Rep.) ; Jackson (T. P. 
B.); Oxford. August. 
Geol. Surv. Herb. 
Gerardia flava L. 
Northern and eastern parts of the state. Lauderdale Co. 
(Hilg.) Aug.-Sept. 
Gerardia maritima Raf.. G. purpurea Var. erassifolia Pursh.) 
Seaside Gerardia. 
Littoral; Salt Marshes. Coastal Island (Tracy.); Cat 
Island; Back Bay of Biloxi. June-July. 
Geol. Surv. Herb. 
Gerardia Plukenetti Ell. (G. setacea Chapm. (JPlukenet’s Ger- 
ardia. 
Dry open pine barrens of lower pine region (Mohr.) Sept.- 
Oct. 
Gerardia fasciculata Ell. (G. purpurea Var. fasiculata Chapm. ) 
Fascicled Gerardia. 
Low damp pine barrens near the coast. Biloxi (Tracy). 
Sept.-Oct. 
Gerardia setacea Walt. 
* Dry open uplands. Claiborne Co. October. 
Gerardia divaricata Chapm. 
Dry open upland woods. Claibore Co. October, 
Gerardia tenuifolia Vahl. (Anonymos erecta Walt. ) Thin- 
leaved Gerardia. 
Dry open woods. Oxford; Heidelberg; Jackson; Fall. 
Geol. Surv. Herb. 
