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Type, Augusta, Georgia, collected in flower by Dr. William Bald- 
win; in Herb. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 
Wet pine-barrens, North Carolina® to Florida and Alabama; also 
in southern Delaware. Not seen growing. 
This has been confused with the northern Gratiola aurea Pursh, 
of which perhaps it should be counted a southern variety. They may 
be separated as follows: 
Plant erect or repent-ascending, 1-3 dm. long. Leaf-blades liber 
to lanceolate, frequently denticulate distally. Pedicels 10-25 
mm. long, usually equaling or exceeding the bracts. 
. aurea. 
Plant repent and ascending, 2-4 dm. long. Leaf-blades lanceo- 
late to lanceolate-ovate, usually more uniformly serrate. Pedi- 
cels 7-15 mm. long, shorter than the bracts. G. georgiana. 
Beside the collection of Baldwin, Rugel 99 (U, Y) from an unstated 
locality on Florida, and also collected very many years ago, is this 
species. The plant is also well described by Elliott, “Sketch Bot. 
. C. & Ga.,” 1: 13. 1816. It should be re-collected. 
3. sapere ramosa Walt. 
tola ramosa Walt., Fl. Carol. 61. 1788. see not verified, but de- 
scinlice of this plan it common in lower South Carolina. 
Gratiola ridentata Michx., Fl. Bor. Amer. 1: 6. 1803. ‘Hab. 
Carolina inferiore [A. Michaux]. e Be not verified, but deberictios 
sufficiently distinctive. 
Moist or wet sandy pineland, edge of ponds, common in the Coastal 
Plain, South Carolina to southern Florida, west to southern Mississ- 
ippi. Varies with frequently broader leaves inland, and with shorter 
fleshier leaves in southern Florida. In the spring erect, but later 
in the season the stems become lax, long-and much branched. 
Flowering from March to September, and soon ripening fruit. 
Corolla with tube dull-yellow, the lobes dull-white, the tube with 
longitudinal brown lines. 
Pennell rss Coin (Florida) —9657, 9669. 
4. Gratiola viscidula Pennel 
Gratiola viscosa Behabois. Le Conte, Ann. Lyc. N. Y. 1: 106. 1824. “In- 
habits Vin , and the u upper parts of North Carolina.” The plant 
that the capsule is as long as the sepals. from Salem, North Caro- 
_ lina, seen in Herb. Academy of Natural genes or of Piulsdaiphis. Not G. 
Hornem., Enum. Pl. Hort. Hafn. 19. 
viscosa 
Gratiola oS ee: Pennell, Taereya 19: 145. 1919. New name for G. 
viscosa 
eee 
“Gratiola aurea Muhl.” in Hyam’s “Flora of North Carolina,” 
ns A. ‘& M. Arts, Bull, 164: 327. 1891; snag sara , Contrib. Nat. Herb. 
N. Oo 
6: 720. 1901, as from the Coast Plain of southern Alabam 
