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Moist sandy soil, edges of salt-marsh, of lakes, or of rivers, 

 in depressions anione: sand-dunes, or locally on barren magnesian 

 loam in the Sorpentine; abundant through the Coastal Plain of 

 New Jersey ami coninion in southern Long Island, in llu- Pine- 

 Barrens replaced by A. virgata; above the Fall-line occasional 

 near ponds and bogs of northern New Jersey, in the bogs of 

 Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, and in meadows and on dry 

 grassy upland of the Serpentine Barrens of Delaware and Chester 

 counties, Pennsylvania. Ranges from Massachusetts to Florida, 

 Minnesota and Texas, mainly in the Coastal Plain or at low 

 elevations inland. 



4. Agalinis virgata Raf. New Fl. Amer. 2:62. 1837. "Glades 



of Pine woods in South New Jersey near Mullica Hill, &c." 

 Type not known to exist. 

 Gerardia racemulosa Pennell in Torreya 11: 15. 1911. 

 "Type— Parkdale, Camden Co., N. J., F. W. Pennell 

 26g2 Coll. Sept. 27, 1910, in Herb. Acad. Nat. Sci. of 

 Phila." 

 Flowering from September to mid-October, fruiting slightly 

 later. 



Moist sandy pine-barrens, or occasionally in open sand, in the 

 Pine Barrens of Long Island (Great River, Suffolk Co., R. P. 

 Bicknell) and of southern New Jersey. Ranges from Long 

 Island to South Carolina, in the pine barrens of the Coastal 

 Plain. An obvious derivative of A. purpurea. 



5. Agalixis Holmiana (Greene) Pennell. 



Gerardia Holmiana Greene, F'ltton'ia. 4: 52. 1899. "Plentiful 

 in open pine and oak groves along Michigan Avenue 

 south of the Soldiers' Home grounds near Brookland, 

 D. C, collected by Mr. Holm and the writer, 20 Oct., 

 1898." No specimen of this date seen, but one in the 

 herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden, of Dr. 

 Greene's collecting, from Brookland, D. C, dated Oct. 

 16, 1898, ma}' stand as the type. I have collected this 

 plant at the type station. 



Agalinis Holmiana (Greene) Pennell in Bull. Torr. Bot. 

 Club 40: 429. 1913. 



