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- Leaves linear-filiform to filiform, .3-1 mm. wide, those of 
the stem scarcely wider than aa of the branches. 
A. tenuifolia polyphylla. 
Corolla glabrous externally, its foutarioy lobes less than one- 
half the length of the anterior, conspicuously ciliate, flat- 
tened. Pedicels at least three times the length of the 
racts. 
Leaves filiform, those of the stem 1.5-2 em. Jong. Racemes 
well- -developed, so flowers not appearing ‘terminal.’ 
Pedicels 20-32 mm. long, three to twelve times the length 
of the bracts. Corolla 15-18 mm. long, rose-pink. 
Plant widely much branched. 
A. divaricata. 
Leaves minute, triangular-subulate, .1-.2 em. long. Flowers 
scattered, mostly appearing “terminal.” Pedicels 6-10 
mm. long, sire times the length of the bracts. Cor- 
olla 10-13 m long, lavender-pink. _ Plant sparingly 
very laxly ene 8 24. A, filicaulis. 
1. Agalinis linifolia (Nutt.) mse 
Gerardia linifolia — n. Pl. N. Amer. 2: 47. 1818. “Hab. Fro 
Wilmington, S earcttas: to Farida. ” Type, labeled “Carolina,” 
and collected. by T Nuttall, seen in Herb. Academy of Natural Sciences 
of Philadelphia. 
Agalinis perennis Raf., New Fl. Amer. 2: 63. 1837. “My specimen is 
from. we eae - Type not known to exist, but description quite dis- 
tinctive. 
Agalinis linifolia (N utt.) Britton; Britton & Brown, Ill. Fl. ed. II. 3: 209. 
1913. 
Wet sandy pineland, usually about margins of ponds in long- 
leaf pineland, in the Coastal Plain from North Carolina to southern 
Florida and west to Louisiana. Northward occurs in southern 
Delaware. 
Flowering from mid-August to October, fruiting September to 
November. Corolla pink, with no tnd lines but with diffused 
purple-red spots within throat anterio 
Pennell (Georgia)—4729, 4745, 4790, 4823. (Florida)—4600, 
4648, 4654, 4666, 4690, 4714, 4794, 4807, 4813 
2. Agalinis spiciflora (Engelm.) Pennell 
Gerardia maritima grandiflora Bentb., aa Bot. Mag. 1: 208. 1836. 
“Texas a Meenas (lst spe i gg "Type in Kew from Flor pane by 
i 
Gerardi sper a Pipes 
name for Gerardia parties grandi, . 
Gerardia maritima major Cha apm. FI. 8. Un. St. 1860. “Brackish 
marshes, Avalariiacts. Florida.” Different collections of this, made by 
an, seen 
Salt marshes, along the coast from North Carolina to Texas. 
Ranges through the West Indies and on the shore of Yucatan. Prob- 
