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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 
