215 



tetets Botaiiiske Miisciiiii, Copenhagfii, Dtiiinark, col- 

 lected b\- ]^oit Rohroi, and said to be [)r()l)abl\- from 

 Philadelphia, is identified by Dr. C. H. Ostenfeld as 

 identical with nn- number 2681 from Secane, Delaware Co., 

 Penns\'lvania. 

 Agalinis temiifolia (Vahl) Raf. New Fl. Anier. 2: 64. 1837. 

 Gerardia tenuifolia f. albiflora Britton in Bull. Torr. Bot. 

 Club 17: 125. 1890. "Found by Mr. Leggett at South 

 Amboy, and by Mr. Schuh at Rosemont, [New Jersey]." 

 An albino state. 

 Aureolaria tenuifolia (Vahl) Farwell in Rep. Mich. Acad. 



Sci. 20: 189. 1918. 

 Aureolaria tenuifolia albiflora (Britton) Farwell, I.e. 190. 



1918. 

 Flowering from late August to early October, fruiting Sep- 

 tember and October. 



Dry loam, or at times sandy soil, usually in open deciduous 

 woodland, common throughout the area above the Fall-line; on 

 northern Long Island; in the Coastal Plain of Long Island and 

 New Jersey occasional, or frequent in heavy soils, not in the 

 Pine Barrens. Ranges from Maine to Georgia, Louisiana, 

 Michigan and Missouri, and in its varieties westward to North 

 Dakota, Colorado and Texas. 



15. Otophylla Benth. in DC. Prod. 10: 512. 1846 

 Type species, Gerardia auriculata Michx. 

 (?) Tomanthera Raf., New Fl. Amer. 2: 65. 1837. Type 

 species, T. lanceolata Raf. 

 I. Otophylla auriculata (Michx.) Small. 



Gerardia auriculata Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer. 2: 20. 1803. 

 "In pratis regionis Illinoensis." Type not verified, but 

 description sufificiently distinctive. 

 Seymeria auriculata (Michx.) Spreng. Syst. 2: 810. 1825. 

 (?) Tomanthera lanceolatn Raf. New Fl. Amer. 2: 66. 1837. 

 "My specimen of Collins' herbarium was collected by 

 Dr. Cleaver in New Jersey." The description of this is 

 erroneous for our plant in describing the anther-sacs as 



