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(68g, 1444). Fl. July-Sept. Also in similar places nearer 

 the coast, but not known farther inland. 

 South to central Florida, west to Louisiana, in the pine-barrens. 



S. pilosa (Mx.) Small, Fl. 1067. 1903. 

 Gratiola pilosa Mx., Fl. 1: 7. 1803. 

 Intermediate and moist pine-barrens, bulloch, Montgomery, 



DODGE, COFFEE, IRWIN, THOMAS, DECATUR. Fl. June-Aug. 



Pretty widely distributed in the coastal plain, and also 

 occurring in Meriwether County with other coastal plain 

 plants. (See Bull. Torrey Club 30:294. 1903.) 

 New Jersey to central Florida and Texas, mostly in the coastal 

 plain. Also in the mountains of Alabama {Mohr) . 



GRATIOLA L., Sp. PI. 17. 1753. 



G. ramosa Walt., Fl. Car. 61. 1788. 

 G. quadridentata Mx., Fl. 1:6. 1803. 



Small branch-swamps and shallow ponds, bulloch (840) , 



COFFEE, WILCOX, IRWIN, BERRIEN, DOOLY, COLQUITT. FL 



summer. Common in the Lower Oligocene region. 

 South Carolina to central Florida, in the pine-barrens. 



G. sphaerocarpa Ell., Sk. 1:14. 1816. 



bulloch : Wet woods near Bloys, June 15, 190 1. Fl. March- 

 April (in Middle Georgia, where it is more common). 

 New Jersey to Illinois, Florida, and Mexico. 



MONNIERA P. Br., Hist. Jam. 269. pi. 28. f. 3. 1756. 

 M. Caroliniana (Walt.) Kuntze, Rev. 2:463. 1891. 



Herpestis amplexicaulis (Mx.) Pursh. Fl. 418. 1814. 



berrien: Shallow pond near Tifton, Oct. 2, 1902. Fl. all 

 summer. Not seen nearer the coast, but common in the 

 Lower Oligocene region. Also occurs in a pond near Omaha, 

 Stewart Co., which is not far from the only station reported 

 for it in Alabama by Dr. Mohr. (See Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 

 6:722. i9oi;Bull. Torrey Club 32:457. 1905.) 



Said to range from Maryland to Florida and Louisiana in the 

 coastal plain, but there are evidently some considerable 

 gaps in its known range. 



