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quite distinctive. An unpublished plate of Rafinesque’s 
is in the library of the New York Botanical Garden. 
Gerardia purpurea crassifolia Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. 422. 
1814. “In salt marshes, near New York.” Type not 
seen, but description sufficiently distinctive. 
Agalinis maritima (Raf.) Raf. New Fl. Amer. 2: 62. 1837. 
Flowering from mid-July to early September, fruiting Sep- 
tember to October. 
Salt marshes, along the Atlantic coast, Connecticut, New 
York.and New Jersey. If separable from the much larger plant 
of the Southern and Gulf coast, our species ranges from Virginia 
northward to Maine, becoming progressively smaller and simpler 
northward. 
2. AGALINIS PAUPERCULA (A. Gray) Britton. 
Gerardia purpurea paupercula: A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 
IT. 1: 293. 1878. ‘“‘Lower Canada to Saskatchewan 
and southward from coast of New England to Penn., 
N. Illinois and Wisconsin.’’ Numerous specimens labeled 
by Gray seen, but none indicated as typical. In synon- 
ymy is mentioned the name iniermedia Porter in herb., 
so selecting a type. 
Gerardia paupercula (A. Gray) Britton in Mem. Torr. Bot. 
Club 5: 295. 1894. 
Agalinis paupercula (A. Gray) Britton in Britton & Brown, 
Ill. Fl. ed. II. 3: 210. 1913. 
Flowering from early August to September, fruiting September 
to October. 
Moist soil, borders of lakes and in bogs, especially where 
sandy, in the glaciated region; through the area east of the Hud- 
son River, occasional in Connecticut and northward in New 
York, very rare southward and on Long Island only at Lake 
Ronkonkoma; near Dingmans Ferry, Sussex Co., New Jersey 
(W. M. Van Sickle (E) ), and doubtless occasional elsewhere in 
the glaciated region west of the Hudson, especially in New York. 
Ranges through glacial bog country from New Brunswick to 
Minnesota, but seems to be much more common in northern 
New England and in Michigan than through the intervening 
