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Melampyrum lineare latifolium (Muhl.) Beauverd in Mem. 
Soc. Phys. Genéve 38: 474. 1916. 
Melampyrum lineare americanum (Michx.) Beauverd, l.c. 
476. 1916. Beauverd distinguishes Jatifolium with bracts 
broader, the lower entire, the upper entire or few-toothed, 
and the first flower placed at the third or fourth node, 
from americanum with bracts narrower, the lower entire 
or slightly toothed, the upper always toothed, and the 
first flower in the axil of the fourth to eighth node. His 
americanum is transitional from latifolium to lineare 
itself, from which he distinguishes both these varieties as 
having corolla whitish, tinged with purple, instead of 
pale-yellow, tinged with purple. The corolla of the 
species, as well of var. latifolium as I understand it, has the 
corolla white, posteriorly more or less tinged with red, 
especially in age, and only the palate yellow. His color 
distinction cannot be maintained, and I should consider . 
the broadest, most entire-leaved plants as an extreme of 
this variety. 
Flowering from late May to mid-August, and soon ripening 
fruit. 
Dry open woods, in potassic soil, sandy or sterile, locally 
common on sandstone or shale ridges, etc., throughout the area 
above the Fall- line; in the Coastal Plain occasional on Long 
Island and in the Middle District of southern New sue 
Intergrading to the species. 
Local SPECIMENS OF THE AUTHOR’s COLLECTING 
As my own collections illustrating our local species of Scro- 
Phulariaceae in part have already been, and in part are soon to 
be, distributed to various herbaria, it may be well here to present 
a summary of the numbers of these. The specimen numbers 
will be grouped by species and states. All are from the local 
- flora as defined in the introduction to these studies. 
Agalinis acuta (N. Y.) 5292, 6551, 6552; 9340, 10126. 
Agalinis Holmiana (N. Y.) 10167. (N. J.) 1662, 2695, 3544, 
3583, 3628, 6483, 9117. 
