215 
tetets Botaniske Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark, col- 
lected by Von Rohren, and said to be probably from 
Philadelphia, is identified by Dr. C. H. Ostenfeld as 
identical with my number 2681 from Secane, Delaware Co., 
Pennsylvania. 
A galinis tenuifolia (Vahl) Raf. New Fl. Amer. 2:64. 1837. 
Gerardia tenuifolia {. albiflora Britton in Bull. Torr. Bot. 
Club 17: 125. 1890. ‘‘Found by Mr. Leggett at South 
Amboy, and by Mr. Schuh at Rosemont, [New Jersey].” 
An albino state. 
Aureolaria tenutfolia (Vahl) Farwell in Rep. Mich. Acad. 
Sci. 20: 189. 1918. 
Aureolaria a dal basa albiflora (Britton) Farwell, l.c. Igo. 
1918. 
Flowering from late August to early October; fruiting Sep- 
tember and October. 
Dry loam, or at times sandy soil, usually in open deciduous 
woodland, common throughout the area above the Fall-line; on 
northern Long Island; in the Coastal Plain of Long Island and - 
New Jersey occasional, or frequent in heavy soils, not in the 
Pine Barrens. Ranges from Maine to Georgia, Louisiana, 
Michigan and Missouri, and in its varieties westward to North 
Dakota, Colorado and Texas. 
15. OTOPHYLLA Benth. in DC. Prod. 10: 512. 1846 
Type species, Gerardia auriculata Michx. 
(?) Tomanthera Raf., New Fl. Amer. 2: 65. 1837. Type 
species, 7. lanceolata Raf. 
1, OTOPHYLLA AURICULATA (Michx.) Small. 
Gerardia auriculata Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer. 2: 20. 1803. 
“In pratis regionis Illinoensis.”” Type not verified, but 
description sufficiently distinctive. 
Seymeria auriculata (Michx.) Spreng. Syst. 2: 810. 1825. 
(?) Tomanthera lanceolata Raf. New Fl. Amer. 2:66. 1837. 
‘““My specimen of Collins’ herbarium was collected by 
Dr. Cleaver in New Jersey.” The description of this is 
erroneous for our plant in describing the anther-sacs as 
