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unequal; actually they are alike in each stamen but those 

 of the posterior stamens are smaller. However I am 

 convinced that ours must be the plant of Rafinesque, and 

 that such an error is due either to a lapse of memory in 

 recording his observation or more likely to confusing in 

 his dried specimen the sacs of two different stamens. 

 This opinion is confirmed by Rafinesque's inclusion in 

 his new genus of Michaux's plant. However for anything 

 less than a certainty and for an untrue name it may be 

 unwise to dispossess Bentham's well-chosen name. 

 Tomanthera auriculata (Michx.) Raf. 1. c. 66. 1837. 

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



New name for Gerardia auriculata Michx. 

 Otophylla auriculata (Michx.) Small, Fl. S.E. Un. St. 1075, 



1338. 1903. 

 Agalinis auriculata (Michx.) Blake in Rhodora 20: 71. 



1918. 

 Aureolaria auriculata (Michx.) Farwell in Rep. Mich. 



Acad. Sci. 20: 189. 1918. 

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

 tember and October. 



Old fields and railway banks, occasional in New Jersey and 

 Pennsylvania. Certainly introduced from the prairies of the 

 Mississippi Valley states. 



