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Flowering early September to mid-October, fruiting slightly 

 later. 



Dry sandy pine-land, in the Coastal Plain. Occasional on 

 Long Island, and common through the Pine Barrens of southern 

 New Jersey. Ranges from Long Island to Alabama, through 

 the Coastal Plain. 



6. Agalinis acuta Pennell in Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 42: 338. 



1915. "Type: dry sandy downs, Edgartown, Martha's 

 Vineyard, Massachusetts, collected in flower September 

 12, 1901, M. L. Femald 45' in United States National 

 Herbarium." 

 Flowering from late August to mid-September, fruiting Sep- 

 tember to October. 



Dry sandy soil, sterile sandy loam, local in the Coastal Plain 

 of Long Island, and known inland from Farmington, Hartford 

 Co., Connecticut {Bissell 14, 48, 439). Abundant on the Hemp- 

 stead Plains of Long Island, one of the most distinctive plants 

 of that prairie. 



7. Agalinis decemloba (Greene) Pennell. 



Gerardia decemloba Greene, Pittonia 4: 51. 1899. "Plant 

 not uncommon about Brookland, D. C, inhabiting grassy 

 knolls and hillsides bordering on pine woods." A speci- 

 men in herb. New York Botanical Garden, collected by 

 Dr. E. L. Greene at Brookland, D. C. in Oct., 1898, may 

 stand as the type. 

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

 Club 40: 434. 1913. 

 Flowering from early September into October, fruiting late 

 September an October. 



Dry soil, sand or clay, in our area only in southern Lancaster 

 Co., Pennsylvania. (New Texas and Wakefield.) Ranges from 

 thence southwestward to northern Alabama, but with a distri- 

 bution much broken, though, like the last, locally common. 



8. Agalinis tenuifolia (Vahl) Raf. 



Gerardia tenuifolia Vahl, Symb. Bot. 3: 7. 1794. "Habitat 

 in America septentrionali." Type in Herb. Universi- 



