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Pedicels 1.5-10 (-15) mm. long. (Euau- 

 reolaria.) 

 Capsule densely rusty-pubescent. Stem pubes- 

 cent and leaves downy-pubescent. Ped- 

 icels 1.5-3 mm. long. 2. A. virginica. 

 Capsule glabrous. Stem glabrous and leaves 

 glabrous or minutely puberulent on the 

 upper surface. Pedicels 3 mm. long or 

 longer. 



Stem slender, not glaucous, rarely pur- 

 plish. Petioles very short, less than 10 

 mm. long. Lower leaves lanceolate 

 to ovate-lanceolate, widest below the 

 middle, long-acuminate. Pedicels 3-8 

 mm. long. Corolla 30-35 mm. long. 

 Seeds 1.5-1.7 mm. long. 3. A. laevigata. 



Stem relatively stout, glaucous, frequently 

 purple. Petioles mostly over 10 mm. 

 long. Lower leaves ovate-lanceolate 

 to ovate, widest about the middle, not 

 long-acuminate. Pedicels 5-10 (-15) 

 mm. long. Corolla 35-40 mm. long. 

 Seeds 2-2.7 mm. long. 4. A. flava. 



I. AUREOLARIA PEDICULARIA (L.) Raf. 



Gerardia pedicidaria L. Sp.. PI. 611. 1753. "Habitat in 



Virginia, Canada." Type not seen, but description 



sufficiently distinctive. 



Panctenis pedicidaria (L.) Raf. New Fl. Amer. 2: 61. 1837. 



The specific name spelled by Rafinesque "pedicularis." 



Aureolaria pedicularia (L.) Raf. I.e. 61. 1837. 



Dasystoma pedicidaria (L.) Benth. in DC. Prod. 10: 521. 



1846. 

 Agalinis pedicularia (L.) Blake in Rhodora 20: 70. 1918. 

 Flowering from early August to late September, fruiting from 

 September into November. 



Dry oak-woodland, thin soil, sandy or rocky, occasional or 

 local above Fall-line, more frequent southwestward ; in the 

 Coastal Plain of Long Island and New Jersey, passing into var. 

 caesariensis . Northwestward the species passes into var. 

 intercedens. Ranges, southward and westward mainly through 

 its varieties, from western Maine to North Carolina and Minne- 

 sota. 



