CISTACEAE 799 
mm. long: leaves of the basal shoots oval or oblong, obtuse, 6-8 mm. long, 4-6 mm. wide: 
branches of the panicle ascending, the ultimate branchlets often recurved : pedicels 1 mm. 
long : flowers more or less secund-scorpioid, close together: petals greenish purple: outer 
sepals about equalling the inner : pod depressed-globose, 1 mm. in diameter. 
In dry soil, Massachusetts to southern Ontario, Nebraska to Floridaand Texas. Summer. 
4. Lechea divaricata Shuttlw. Foliage densely villous-pubescent. Stems erect, 
divaricately branched, the branches slender, very leafy : leaves of the stem and branches 
small, 4-8 mm. long; blades oval, oblong or linear-oblong, acute, clothed with spreading 
hairs on both surfaces: inflorescence very leafy: flowers obovoid : pedicels about 2 mm. 
long, not secund : outer sepals shorter than the inner: pod globose, nearly 2 mm. in 
lameter. 
In dry soil, Florida and Texas. Summer. 
5. Lechea maritima Leggett. Foliage tomentose-canescent with whitish hairs. 
Stems densely tufted, branching from the base, stout, rigid, 1.5-3 dm. high, the primary 
branches spreading or ascending, numerous: flowering branches slender, stiff, divergent, 
elongated : leaves of the stem 8-20 mm. long, 2-4 mm. wide; blades linear or linear-oblong, 
blunt or acute: leaves of the basal shoots oblong or ovate-oblong, mainly acute, 6-8 mm, 
long, 3-4 mm. wide, densely canescent: pedicels 1 mm. long: flowers numerous, 
pn. petals reddish: outer sepals shorter than the inner: pod globose, 1 mm. in 
lameter. 
Insands of theseashore and in sandy pine lands, Massachusetts to Virginia and Georgia. Summer. 
6. Lechea tenuifdlia Michx. Foliage minutely strigose-pubescent. Stems densely 
tufted, erect, slender, 1-3 dm. high, divaricately branched above, the branches slender, elon- 
gated: leaves of the stem 4-15 mm. long, 1 mm. wide or less ; blades narrowly linear, or 
sometimes nearly filiform, acute, sessile, or very nearly so: leaves of the basal shoots 
linear, sessile, 6-8 mm. long, about 1 mm. wide: pedicels 2 mm. long: flowers more or 
less secund, conspicuously bracted : petals red-purple : outer sepals equalling or exceeding 
the inner in length : pod globose-oval, 1 mm. in diameter, or slightly more. 
In dry;open places, eastern Massachusetts to Wisconsin, Florida and Texas. Summer. 
7. Lechea patula Leggett. Bushy, 1.5-4.5 dm. high, the foliage appressed-pubescent. 
Stems usually divergently branched, but the branches sometimes ascending. Leaves of the 
stem and branches 4-9 mm. long, 1 mm. or less wide ; blades linear or oblong, acute : leaves 
of the basal shoots canescent ; blades linear-oblong or somewhat spatulate, subacute, 6-10 
mm. long, 1-2 mm. wide: flowers minute: outer sepals about equalling the inner in 
length : pod globose, 1 mm. in diameter. 
In dry soil, South Carolina and Florida. Summer. 
8. Lechea Torreyi Leggett. Foliage cinereous-pubescent. Stems much branched, 
2.5-4.5 dm. high, the branches ascending: leaves of the stem and branches linear, 8-12 mm. 
long, about 2 mm. wide, acute, those of the basal shoots smaller and narrower, finely ap- 
pressed-pubescent: flowers numerous, short-pedicelled : calyx densely covered with ap- 
ae white hairs: outer sepals shorter than the inner: pod ellipsoidal, 1.5 mm. in 
lameter. 
In dry soil, South Carolina and Florida. Summer. 
9. Lechea Leggéttii Britt. & Holl. Foliage strigose-pubescent but green. Stems 
erect, 2-6 dm. high, rather slender, spreading or ascending : leaves of the stem 10-25 mm. 
long, 1-2 mm. wide ; blades linear or linear-oblong, acute or obtuse, sessile or nearly so: 
leaves of the basal shoots oblong-linear, 4-6 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, acute: panicle open, 
its branches slender and divergent: racemes somewhat secund : pedicels 1-2 mm. long : 
petals brownish purple : outer sepals nearly equalling the inner in length : pod obovoid, 
1.5 mm. in diameter. 
In dry open places, Long Island, New York to Indiana and North Carolina. Summer. 
10. Lechea Drummóndii (Spach) T. & G. Foliage sparingly pubescent. Stems 
1-2 dm. high, slender, wiry, much branched, decumbent or erect, the branches ascending : 
leaf-blades narrowly linear, 6-12 mm. long, 0.5 mm. wide, scattered, the upper minute : 
flowers solitary in the axils of the subulate bracts, secund, slender-pedicelled : pedicels de- 
flexed, 2-4 mm. long in fruit; calyx strigose-pubescent : outer sepals about as long as the 
inner: pod depressed-globose, 2 mm. in diameter. 
In dry soil, Texas. Summer. 
