LINACEAE 791 
Sepals, especially the outer ones, finely and regularly toothed, 
narrowly lanceolate, long-acuminate: capsule globose- 
ovoid or slightly depressed. 10. C. sulcatum. 
III. RiGIDA 
Plants stout, erect, sparingly branched above: corolla showy, 
‘golden-yellow. 11. C. Carteri. 
l. C. striatum (Walt.) Small. Stem 2-8 dm. tall, panieulate, winged below 
the nodes: leaves mainly opposite; blades elliptic, 1-3 cm. long: outer sepals 
vu had to elliptie-laneeolate, 2-2.5 mm. 
long; inner sepals ovate to suborbicular: 
oul bei o TOI DOR. 2 mm. broad.— 
Low ds, swamps, and wet on 
e 
various provinces, Fla. to Tex., Man., Ont 
and Mas 
2. C. virginianum (L.) Small. Stem 2-6 
dm. tall corymbose M i ede 
blades thinnish, Dea te or a. to 
elliptic, 1-3 em. long: outer ee a 
to elliptic- lanceolate, 3-3.5 mm. long; 
sepals rat pi ape than Ux outer: oen sm 
depressed, broad.—Roadsides, thick- 
ets, and T pour various provinees, Ga. 
to Ala., Ont., and Me. 
3. C. medium i Small. Stem 3-6 dm tall,  eorymbose above, the 
branches rigid: leaves inly alternate, ye on appressed ; blades spatulate 
to t ae or linear. lanceolate 0.6-2 long: outer To E to 
lanceolate, long: capsu ule depressed- globose, 
Hillsides, b uus and thickets, various provinces, Fla. to Tex, Ont, aad 
N. Y. 
4. C. Curtissii Small. Stem 2-6.5 dm. tall, m above: leaves mainly 
alternate, ascen e d or ur blades elliptie-spatulate to Pii or linear 
above, 0.5—1.5 ong: outer sepals ovate, 2-2.5 mm. long: capsu eo depressed, 
2.5 mm. broad. ee eee and low pinelands, S pen. Fla.—(W. I.) 
C. floridanum (Planeh.) Small. Stem 3-8 dm. tall, eorymbose: leaves 
mainly alter ernate, nearly erect or m blades . oblaneeolate to linear- 
Eccc or linear a pao ke un em. long: inner E ovate to eis ovate, 
nearly as long as the i age broadly ovoid, 2-2.5 . broad.— 
Low pinelands, E aet "Plain por NEA y adj. pret ee Fla. to La. "S Il., and 
N. C. 
6. C. intercursum (Bicknell) Small Stem 1.5-3 dm. tall, or sometimes taller, 
eorymbose above, sometimes copiously so: leaves erect or ascending; blades 
oblanceolate, or elliptic, poke em. long: inner sepals ovate or oval-ovate, 
des than the outer ones: capsule narrowly ovoid, 15-8 mm. E oS 
andy woods id barrens, various provinees, Ga. and Ala. to Mas 
C. macrosepalum Small. Stem 2.5-9 dm. tall, corymbose: leaves alternate 
erect- -ascending or appressed; blades linear- subulate to d or narrowly 
linear or linear-spatulate near the base of the stem, 1-1.5 em. long: inner sepals 
S d to e p tne much pub w the a ones: capsule ovoid, 
broad.— unds and swamps, Coastal Plain, Fla., Ala., and 
Plants with Ed prm Pul have been found in 'serub near 
Naples, s, Fla. 
