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Moist sandy soil, edges of salt-marsh, of lakes, or of rivers, 
in depressions among sand-dunes, or locally on barren magnesian 
loam in the Serpentine; abundant through the Coastal Plain of 
New Jersey and common in southern Long Island, in the Pine- 
Barrens replaced by A. virgata; above the Fall-line occasional 
near ponds and bogs of northern New Jersey, in the bogs of 
Lancaster: Co., Pennsylvania, and in meadows and on dry 
grassy upland of the Serpentine Barrens of Delaware and Chester 
counties, Pennsylvania. Ranges from Massachusetts to Florida, 
Minnesota and Texas, mainly in the Coastal Plain or at low 
elevations inland. 
4. AGALINis VIRGATA Raf. New FI. Amer. 2: 62. 1837. ‘‘Glades 
of Pine woods in South New Jersey near Mullica Hill, &c.” 
Type not known to exist. 
Gerardia racemulosa Pennell in Torreya I1: 15. I9II. 
“Type—Parkdale, Camden Co., N. J., F. W. Pennell 
2692 Coll. Sept. 27, 1910, in Herb. Acad. Nat. Sci. of 
Phila.” 
Flowering from September to mid-October, fruiting slightly 
later. 
Moist sandy pine-barrens, or occasionally in open sand, in the 
Pine Barrens of Long Island (Great River, Suffolk Co., E. P. 
Bicknell) and of southern New Jersey. Ranges from Long 
Island to South Carolina, in the pine barrens of the Coastal 
Plain. An obvious derivative of A. purpurea. 
5. AGALINIs Hotmiana (Greene) Pennell. 
Gerardia Holmiana Greene, Pittonia 4:52. 1899. ‘‘Plentiful 
in open pine and oak groves along Michigan Avenue 
south of the Soldiers’ Home grounds near Brookland, 
D. C., collected by Mr. Holm and the writer, 20 Oct., 
1898."" No specimen of this date seen, but one in the 
herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden, of Dr. 
Greene’s collecting, from Brookland, D. C., dated Oct. 
16, 1898, may stand as the type. I have collected this 
plant at the type station. 
Agalinis Holmiana (Greene) Pennell in Bull. Torr. Bot. 
Club 40: 429. 1913. 
