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quite distinctive. An unpublished plate of Rafinesque's 

 is in the library of the New York Botanical Garden. 

 Gerardia purpurea crassifolia Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. 422. 

 1814. "In salt marshes, near New York." Type not 

 seen, but description sufficiently distinctive. 

 Agalinis maritima (Raf.) Raf. New F"l. Amer. 2: 62. 1837. 

 Flowering from mid-July to early September, fruiting Sep- 

 tember to October. 



Salt marshes, along the Atlantic coast, Connecticut, New 

 York and New Jersey. If separable from the much larger plant 

 of the Southern and Gulf coast, our species ranges from Virginia 

 northward to Maine, becoming progressively smaller and simpler 

 northward. 



2. Agalixis paupercula (A. Gray) Britton. 



Gerardia purpurea paupercula A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 



II. i: 293. 1878. "Lower Canada to Saskatchewan 

 and southward from coast of New England to Penn., 

 N. Illinois and Wisconsin." Numerous specimens labeled 

 by Gray seen, but none indicated as typical. In synon- 

 ymy is mentioned the name intermedia Porter in herb., 

 so selecting a type. 



Gerardia paupercula (A. Gray) Britton in Mem. Torr. Bot. 



Club 5: 295. 1894. 

 Agalinis paupercula (A. Gray) Britton in Britton & Brown, 



III. Fl. ed. II. 3: 210. 1913. 



Flowering from early August to September, fruiting September 

 to October. 



Moist soil, borders of lakes and in bogs, especially where 

 sandy, in the glaciated region; through the area east of the Hud- 

 son River, occasional in Connecticut and northward in New 

 York, very rare southward and on Long Island only at Lake 

 Ronkonkoma; near Dingmans Ferry, Sussex Co., New Jersey 

 {W. M. Van Sickle (E) ), and doubtless occasional elsewhere in 

 the glaciated region west of the Hudson, especially in New York. 

 Ranges through glacial bog country from New Brunswick to 

 Minnesota, but seems to be much more common in northern 

 New England and in Michigan than through the intervening 



