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line, acute to acuminate, brownish, densely rusty-pubescent with 
reflexed-appressed brown hairs. Seeds 1.3-1.5 mm. long, broadly 
angular-lunate, flattened; testa gray, with reticulations dark, pro- 
duced on outer side into several thin wings }-} diameter of seed. 
Type, Stevenson, Jackson Co., Alabama, nellaetal in fruit Oc- 
tober 17, 1913, F. W. Pennell 5720, in Herb. University of Penn- 
sylvania. 
Dry oak-woods, on siliceous soil, southeastern Tennessee to south- 
ern Alabama and northwestern Florida, especially in the southern 
Cumberland Mountains. 
Flowering from early June to late August, fruiting August to 
October. 
Pennell (Georgia)—5711. (Alabama)—5720, 9739, 9742. (Ten- 
nessee)—5703, 5706, 5715. 
5. Aureolaria patula (Chapm.) Pennell, comb. nov. 
Dasystoma patula rae Bot. Gaz. 3: 10. 1878. Bic at d of the Coosa 
River, near Rome, Georgia.’ Several collections of Chapman’s seen 
one labeled “Banke of Horse-leg Creek, a poy tk oe the Coosa River,” 
w York Botanical Garden, may stand a 
Wooded bluffs along rivers, central and ket Piano: and 
northwestern Georgia. : 
Flowering from August to October. Corolla yellow, with no 
tinge of purple-red. 
Pennell (Tennessee) —5722. 
6. Aureolaria dispersa (Small) Pennell. 
Dasystoma dispersa Small, Bull. T a — Club 28: 452. ran “ Louisi- 
ana: Feliciana, Carpent er; e herbarium of Columbia Univer- 
sity.”” Type seen in Herb. Colum hse Fog iniereity at the New York Bo- 
tanical Garden. 
Aureolaria dispersa (Small) Pennell, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 40: 411. 1913. 
Sandy thickets and oak-land, pineland from southern Alabama 
to Louisiana. te 
Flowering in August and September, fruiting in October. . 
Pennell (Alabama)—4504, 4521. (Mississippi)—4384. (Louisi- 
ana)—4117, 4245. 
7. Aureolaria flava (L.) Farwe Rays Neer vi Canada.” 
Gerard Ce 17. “Habitat in Virginia, Canada. 
seh es Linnean Herbarium identified by Bentham; see in Com 
Sit toe. 2 
——— quercifolia ‘ioe fi. Amer. sing 2: ~ on 19. ck ad - te 
ciently distinctive 
A poles toe desert "Rep. Mic hy Acad. Sci. 20: 188. 1918. 
Oak woodland, usually on rocky hillsides, loam or sometimes 
sandy soil, nearly throughout above the Fall-Line, common in the 
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