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Sophronanthe pilosa (Michx.) Small, Fl. S.E. Un. St. 1067, 
1338. 1903. 
Flowering mid-July to late September, and soon ripening 
fruit. 
Moist sandy pineland, in potassic soil, Cape May District 
and locally in Camden County in the Middle District, of the 
Coastal Plain of southern New Jersey. Ranges from New Jersey 
to Florida and eastern Texas, in the Coastal Plain. 
2. GRATIOLA AUREA Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 1: 12. 1814. “In 
sandy wet places, in the pine-barrens of New England, 
New Jersey and Carolina... v. v.; v. s. in Herbario 
Banksiano.” Description distinctive, tere restricted to 
the northern first-mentioned plant. 
Flowering from early June to late September, and soon ripen- 
ing fruit. Apparently fruit is sparingly matured, the plant 
increasing mainly by stolons. 
Wet sandy potassic soil, margins of ponds; frequent in the 
Coastal Plain of Long Island and New Jersey, especially in the 
Pine Barrens; occasional about lakes in the glaciated region 
above the Fall-line, at least at Lake Hopatcong, Morris Co., New 
Jersey. Ranges from Maine and eastern Ontario to Virginia. 
2a. Gratiola aurea obtusa Pennell, var. nov. 
Plant erect, 1.5 dm. tall. Leaves lanceolate to ovate, 1.5 cm. 
long, entire, obscurely puncticulate distally. Sepals 3 mm. 
long, very obtuse. Corolla 10-12 mm. long. 
Type, gravelly shores of Delaware River, between high and 
low tide, Fish House, Camden Co., New Jersey, collected in 
flower, July 24, 1¢05, by Stewardson Brown; in herb. Academy 
of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 
Gravelly or sandy shores of Delaware River, between tides, 
Mercer and Camden counties, New Jersey, and Philadelphia 
Co., Pennsylvania. 
3. Gratiola viscidula Pennell, nom. nov. 
Gratiola viscosa Schwein.; Le Conte in Ann. Lyc. N. Y- ¥: 
106. 1824. ‘‘Inhabits Virginia, and the upper parts of 
North Carolina.””. Apparently the plant now considered, 
although the description appears inaccurate in stating 
