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Gerardia virginica (L.) Britton in Prelim. Cat. N. J. PI. 40. 



1888. 

 Dasystoma virginica (L.) Britton in Mem. Torr. Bot. Club 5: 



295. 1894. 

 Aureolaria virginica (L.) Pennell in Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 



40:409. 1913. 

 AgaUnis virginica (L.) Blake in Rhodora 20: 71. 1918. 

 Flowering from early July to mid-August, fruiting from August 

 to October. 



Dry open oak-woods, usually sand or a sandy loam, frequent 

 or common throughout our area, less general within the Pine 

 Barrens. Ranges from New Hampshire to Florida, west to 

 Michigan, Kentucky and Louisiana. 



3. Aureolaria laevigata (Raf.) Raf. 



Gerardia levigata Raf. Ann. Nat. 13. 1820. "It grows 

 on the knob hills of Kentucky, the Cumberland mountains 

 and the Alleghany." No type known to exist, unless it 

 be a specimen in Herb. New York Botanical Garden, 

 labeled in Rafinesque's handwriting, "Gerardia — n. sp. — 

 Kentucky." 

 Aureolaria levigata (Raf.) Raf. New Fl. Amer. 2: 59. 1837. 

 Dasystoma laevigata (Raf.) Chapm. Fl. S. Un. St. ed. H: 



636. 1883. 

 AgaUnis laevigata (Raf.) Blake in Rhodora 20: 71. 1918. 

 Oak-woodland, usually rocky, along streams or on mountain- 

 sides along the Susquehanna River in Lancaster Co., Pennsyl- 

 vania. Ranges through the Appalachians from central Pennsyl- 

 vania to South Carolina and Tennessee. 



4. Aureolaria flava (L.) Farwell. 



Gerardia flava L. Sp. PI. 610. 1753. "Habitat in Virginia, 

 Canada." Specimen in Linnean Herbarium identified 

 by Bentham; see in Comp. Bot. Mag. i: 198. 1836. 



Gerardia glauca Eddy in Med. Repos. N. Y., Hnd Hex. 5: 

 126. 1807. Plandome, Long Island. C. W. Eddy. 

 Type not seen nor known to exist, but description quite 

 distinctive. 



