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Sophronanthe pUosa (Michx.) Small, Fl. S.E. Un. St. 1067, 



1338. 1903. 

 Flowering mid-July to late September, and soon ripening 

 fruit. 



Moist sandy pineland, in potassic soil. Cape May District 

 and locally in Camden County in the Middle District, of the 

 Coastal Plain of southern New Jersey. Ranges from New Jersey 

 to Florida and eastern Texas, in the Coastal Plain. 



2. Gratiola aurea Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. i: 12. 1814. "In 



sandy wet places, in the pine-barrens of New England, 

 New Jersey and Carolina ... v. v.; v. s. in Herbario 

 Banksiano." Description distinctive, here restricted to 

 the northern first-mentioned plant. 



Flowering from early June to late September, and soon ripen- 

 ing fruit. Apparently fruit is sparingly matured, the plant 

 increasing mainly by stolons. 



Wet sandy potassic soil, margins of ponds; frequent in the 

 Coastal Plain of Long Island and New Jersey, especially in the 

 Pine Barrens; occasional about lakes in the glaciated region 

 above the Fall-line, at least at Lake Hopatcong, Morris Co., New 

 Jersey. Ranges from Maine and eastern Ontario to Virginia. 

 2a. Gratiola aurea obtusa Pennell, var. nov. 



Plant erect, 1.5 dm. tall. Leaves lanceolate to ovate, 1.5 cm. 

 long, entire, obscurely puncticulate distally. Sepals 3 mm. 

 long, very obtuse. Corolla 10-12 mm. long. 



Type, gravelly shores of Delaware River, between high and 

 low tide. Fish House, Camden Co., New Jersey, collected in 

 flower by Stewardson Brown; in herb. Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia. 



Gravelly or sandy shores of Delaware River, between tides, 

 Mercer and Camden counties, New Jersey, and Philadelphia 

 Co., Pennsylvania. 



3. Gratiola viscidula Pennell, nom. nov. 



Gratiola viscosa Schwein.; Le Conte in Ann. Lye. N. Y. i : 

 106. 1824. "Inhabits Virginia, and the upper parts of 

 North Carolina." Apparently the plant now considered, 

 although the description appears inaccurate in stating 



