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wien cynity pie Roots apparently annual, the main root 
thick, and g off numerous fibers. Not stoloniferous. 
Corolla of pace owers 8-12 mm. long, not lined within 
pubescent below anterior lobes with unknobbed hairs. 
Leaves prevailingly lanceolate. 5. 
Corolla of earlier flowers 15-20 mm. long, purple-lined within, 
pubescent below anterior lobes with knobbed hairs. 
ais prevailingly ovate. Pedicels more slender and 
ually longer. 7. floridana. 
Pedicels tea than 10 mm. long. Corolla within Caveat, on pos- 
terior side pubescent with unknobbed hairs. Capsule glo- 
bose, 5-6 mm. long, slightly exceeding the sepals. Seeds 
-7 mm, long, linear. Leaves and root as in neglecta. 
7. G. virginiana. 
1. Gratiola pilosa Michx. 
Gratiola pilosa Michx., Fl. Bor. Amer. 1: 7. 1803. ‘Hab. in Carolinae 
inferioris uliginosis [A. Michaux].” peccciviien sufficiently distinctive. 
Moist or rather dry sandy pineland, common nearly throughout 
the Coastal Plain, south to central Florida; occasional inland, reach- 
ing the mountain-valleys of North Carolina and northern Alabama. 
Ranges from New Jersey to Florida, central Arkansas and eastern 
Texas. 
Flowering from late May to September, and soon ripening fruit. 
Corolla white, throat distally with faint bluish-purple lines on all 
petals. 
Pennell (Georgia)—10172. (Florida)—9671, 9682, 9709. (Ala- 
bama)—9721. 
la. Gratiola pilosa epilis Pennell, var. nov. 
Plant throughout glabrous, or the sepals rarely with a few hairs. 
Leaves shorter, less evidently serrate. Corolla 7-9 mm. long. 
Calyx-lobes 4.5 mm. long, scarcely exceeding the capsule. Capsule 
browner than in the species. 
Type, Myers, Lee Co., Florida, collected in flower and fruit July- 
August, 1900, A. S. Hitchcock 258, in United States National Her- 
barium; isotype in Herb. New York Botanical Garden. 
Around ponds, southern Florida. Only the above specimens seen. 
2. Gratiola georgiana Pennell, sp. nov. 
Stem fleshy, glabrous, repent, ascending, 2-4 dm. long. Leaf- 
blades lanceolate to lanceolate-ovate, 1.5-2.5 cm. long, serrate to 
nearly entire, acute or acutish. Pedicels 7-15 mm. long. Calyx- 
lobes linear or nearly so, 4-8 mm. long. Corolla 8-12 mm. long, 
bright yellow. Capsule not seen. 
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