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that the capsule is as long as the sepals. Not G. viscosa 

 Hornem. Enum. PL Hort. Hafn. 19. 1807. 

 Flowering from mid-July to September, and soon ripening 

 fruit. 



Swales and swamps, along streams, in potassic soil, at a few 

 stations in the Piedmont of northern Delaware. Ranges from 

 Delaware to upland Georgia and eastern Tennessee. 

 4. Gratiola neglecta Torr. Cat. PL N. Y. 89. 1819. "With- 

 in thirty miles of the City of New York." In the her- 

 barium of Columbia University are two sheets, probably 

 representing but one collection, both labeled " Gratiola 

 virginica Linn., Torr. Fl. N. Y., 2, p. 37." It is possible 

 that one or both of these are Torrey's plants of G. neglecta. 

 The latter was described as distinct from G. virginiana 

 because of the lack of the rudimentary antero-lateral 

 filaments. Five years later, in his Flora of the Northern 

 States, Torrey was persuaded that this lack was true of 

 G. virginiana, and on that account reduced his earlier 

 species. Still later, in 1843, in his Flora of New York, 

 he described such rudiments as present, and held as 

 erroneous his previous observations. The truth, as 

 confirmed by an extensive examination of fresh flowers, 

 is that these rudiments may be small, or reduced to one, 

 or altogether absent; all stages are to be found in the 

 same colony. The name is here used for the species 

 which has long been known as G. virginiana. 

 Conobea borealis Spreng. in Neue Entdeck. 3: 26. 1822. "Hab. 

 in locis humidis prope Noveboracum. ..." This is 

 virtually a re-description of Gratiola neglecta Torr., 

 although sufficient new matter is added to indicate that 

 Sprengel must have seen a specimen of this. The change 

 of generic classification is doubtless due to the discovery 

 of sterile rudiments of the antero-lateral filaments. 

 Flowering from late May to late September, and soon ripen- 

 ing fruit. 



Wet loam, woodland or open, in potassic soil, common above 

 the Fall-line; and through the Middle District of the Coastal 



