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with toothed calix and purple flowers estival 
and Autumnal, leaves and flowers chiefly oppo- 
site, leaves always sessile. 
372. Agalinis palustius Raf. Ger. purpu- 
rea L. &c. that name applied to all. It will 
be known by its locality near marshes, stem 
branched rough 4gone, leaves broad linear 
rough, flowers subsessile and large, teeth of ca- 
lix elongate and broad. From New England 
to Carolina, sesquipedal. Yar. Corymbosa 
branches crowded corymbose, 2. divaricata 
slender divergent, 3 ramosissima , 4 virgata 
Sl c, but the next appears to be distinct. 
373. Agalinis longi folia Raf. stem simple 
4gone smooth, leaves long linear smooth thin 
margin rough, flowers subsessile, teeth of calix 
long subulate, — Near streams New Jersey to 
Virginia, stem 6 to 12 inches only, while leaves 
2 or 3 inches long, often alternate above, flow- 
ers rather large. 
374. Agalims. mahitxma Raf. Ge r. do Raf. 
med. rep. 1868. Nuttal 1818. G. purpurea 
var. crassifolia Pursh. Quite smooth, stem 
branched, leaves linear thick chnvex beneath 
enerve, flowers on peduncles shorter than leaves, 
calix crenate, teeth short obtuse — -on the Sea 
shores from New England to Chesapeak bay. 
Stem 2 to 8 inches high, flowers smaller. A 
very distinct sp. one of the few of my early dis- 
coveries in 1862, adopted by our botanists. 
Yar. 1 . pumila, 2 or 3 inches high, 2 gracilis 
less branched slender leaves remote. 
375. Agalinis virgata Raf quite smooth, 
stem simple virgate angular, leaves ad pressed 
narrow linear, flowers racemose opposite on 
short peduncles, teeth of calix short acute- 
glades of Pine woods in South New Jersey near 
