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Pedicels 1.5-10 (-15) mm. long. (Eitait- 

 reolaria.) 



Capsule densely rusty-pubescent. Stem pubes- 

 cent and leaves downy-pubescent. Ped- 

 icels 1.5-3 mm. long. 2. A. virginica. 



Capsule glabrous. Stem glabrous and leaves 

 glabrous or minutely puberulent on the 

 upper surface. Pedicels 3 mm. long or 

 longer. 

 Stem slender, not glaucous, rarely pur- 

 plish. Petioles very short, less than 10 

 mm. long. Lower leaves lanceolate 

 to ovate-lanceolate, widest below the 

 middle, long-acuminate. Pedicels 3-8 

 mm. long. Corolla 30-35 mm. long. 

 Seeds 1. 5-1. 7 mm. long. 3. A. laevigata. 



Stem relatively stout, glaucous, frequently 

 purple. Petioles mostly over 10 mm. 

 long. Lower leaves ovate-lanceolate 

 to ovate, widest about the middle, not 

 long-acuminate. Pedicels 5-10 (-15) 

 mm. long. Corolla 35-40 mm. long. 

 Seeds 2-2.7 mm. long. 4. A. flava. 



I. AUREOLARIA PEDICULARIA (L.) Raf. 



Gerardia pedicularia L. Sp. PI. 611. 1753. "Habitat in 



Virginia, Canada." Type not seen, but description 



sufficiently distinctive. 



Panctenis pedicularia (L.) Raf. New Fl. Amer. 2: 61. 1837. 



The specific name spelled by Rafinesque "pedicularis." 



Aureolaria pedicularia (L.) Raf. I.e. 61. 1837. 



Dasystoma pedicularia (L.) Benth. in DC. Prod. 10: 521. 



1846. 

 Agalinis pedicularia (L.) Blake in Rhodora 20: 70. 1918. 

 Flowering from early August to late September, fruiting from 

 September into November. 



Dry oak-woodland, thin soil, sandy or rocky, occasional or 

 local above Fall-line, more frequent southwestward; in the 

 Coastal Plain of Long Island and New Jersey, passing into var. 

 caesariensis. Northwestward the species passes into var. 

 intercedens. Ranges, southward and westward mainly through 

 its varieties, from western Maine to North Carolina and Minne- 

 sota. 



