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13. Agalinis Gattingeri Small. Gattinger’s 
Agalinis. Fig. 3830. 
Gerardia Gattingeri Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 1078. 1903. 
Annual, smooth or slightly scabrous; stem 82° 
tall, wiry, with smooth very slender long branches. 
Leaves numerous, linear-filiform or almost fili- 
form, }’-14’ long, acute, smooth or slightly rough- 
ened; pedicels spreading or ascending, filiform, 
3’-1’ long, less than twice the length of the leaves; 
calyx campanulate, its teeth subulate or linear- 
subulate, much shorter than the tube; corolla rose 
purple, 8’-10” long; capsules subglobose, 13-2” in 
diameter. 
In dry soil or woods, Wisconsin and Iowa to Ten- 
nessee and Texas. Aug.—Oct. 
3o. OTOPHYLLA Benth. in DC. Prodr. 10: 512. 
Annual caulescent herbs, with hirsute-pubescent foliage. Leaves opposite; blades entire 
or pinnately divided, all or some of them auricled at the base, sessile. Flowers in terminal 
spikes. Calyx of 5 partially united sepals. Corolla purple or rarely white; tube broadly 
dilated at the throat; lobes spreading. Stamens 4, didynamous, included; filaments glabrous 
or nearly so; anthers awnless, those of the shorter stamens much smaller than those of the 
longer. Style slender. Stigma entire. Capsule oval or globose-oval, often minutely pointed. 
Seeds angled. [Greek, meaning lobed leaf.] 
Two species in eastern North America. Type species: Gerardia auriculata Michx. 
Leaf-blades, or some of them, with 2 auricles at the base; corolla 8’—-10” long; capsules over 
5” long. : . 1. O. auriculata. 
Leaf-blades parted into 3-7 linear segments; corolla 1’-114’ long; capsules about 14’ long. 
2. O. densiflora. 
1. Otophylla auriculata (Michx.) Small. Auricled Gerardia. Fig. 3831. 
G. auriculata Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 20. 1803. 
Otophylla auriculata Small, Fl. SE.U.S. 1075. 1903. 
Annual, scabrous; stem slender, simple, or 
branched above, hirsute, 1°-2° high. Leaves lan- 
ceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate at the apex, 
sessile, mostly rounded and 2-lobed at the base, 
or quite entire, 1’-2’ long, the basal lobes oblong 
or lanceolate, obtusish, short; flowers solitary in 
the upper axils, sessile, purple, 8’—-10” long; ca- 
lyx 5-cleft, its lobes lanceolate, acute, slightly 
unequal, as long as or longer than the tube; co- 
rolla densely puberulent outside, glabrous within ; 
filaments glabrous; anther-sacs obtuse at the 
base; capsule oval-oblong, about 4’ high, a little 
shorter than the calyx. 
In moist open soil, Pennsylvania to Illinois, Min- 
nesota, North Carolina and Kansas. Adventive at 
Woodbridge, N. J. July—Sept. 
