270 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [Dec., 
Dasystoma pubescens Benth., in DC. Prod. 10: 520. 1846. ‘In Americae 
sept. civitatibus orientalibus frequens.’’ Type not verified, but descrip- 
tion sufficiently distinctive. 
pg mane ake Small, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 28: 452. 1901. “The 
ecimens on which this species is based were collected by the writer es 
the slopes of Stone Mountain, Georgia, Sept. 6-12, 1894.” Type see 
in Herb. New York Botanical Garden. Also collected by myself a 
Stone Mountain, Pennell 4050, 5692. The short capsules of ihe plant 
are quite within ‘the normal range of variation of :Aureolaria virginica. 
Aureolaria virginica (L.) Pennell, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 40: 409. 1913. 
Dry open woods, usually sandy, frequent through the Piedmont 
and eastern Appalachians south to central Georgia, less common 
through the western Appalachians and Mississippi Valley of our 
area; occasional in the Coastal Plain south to northern Florida and 
west to Louisiana. Ranges from New Hampshire, south to Florida 
and Louisiana. This species has been long known as ‘‘Gerardva 
flava.” 
Flowering from late May to July, fruiting from July to Septem- 
ber. Corolla yellow, with no tinge of purple-re 
_ Pennell (Georgia)—4050, 4070, 4090, 5691, "5692, 5697, 5702. 
(Tennessee)—5724. 
4. Aureolaria microcarpa Pennell, sp. nov. 
Perennial. Stem 6-10 dm. tall, simple or with stiff ascending 
branches above, below glabrous, above less or more densely puberu- 
lent with recurved-spreading dark-jointed hairs. Petioles more or 
less defined from the narrowed base of the leaves. Lower leaves 
lanceolate-ovate, somewhat deeply and coarsely sinuate-lobed or 
merely shallowly dentate, 6-11 cm. long, 15-40 mm. wide; upper 
leaves gradually smaller and simpler, bracts ovate -lanceolate; leaves 
above scabrous-puberulent, beneath softly puberulent, becoming 
nearly or quite glabrous, above dull-green, beneath paler. Pedicels 
stout, closely pubescent, in flower 1-2 mm. long, in fruit 2-3 mm. 
long. Calyx externally closely puberulent, its tube 3-5 mm. long, 
turbinate, within puberulent, its lobes 3.5-7 mm. long, lanceolate 
to spatulate-ovate, acute to acutish. Corolla 30-40 mm. long, its | 
tube inflated ventrally, its lobes 5-10 mm. long, ovate-orbicular, 
rounded; externally glabrous, within sparingly pubescent proximally, — 
but glabrous below sinuses of lobes; yellow, with no tinge of purple- 
red. Filaments slender, flattened, posterior 13-17 mm. long, an- 
terior 18-23 mm. long, all loosely lanose near base and again distally, 
especially close to the apex; anther-sacs 44.5 mm. long, ovate, 
broadly narrowed at apex into a rigid downeurved awn .8-.9 mm. 
long; sacs lanose-pubescent with retrorse white hairs. Style 25-30 
mm. long. Capsule 9-12 mm. long, ovate to globose-ovate in out- 
