882 CISTACEAE 
IV. DIVARICATAE 
Plant more or less diffuse, the branches with numerous rela- 
Elec tt x branehes: the whole plant loosely gray- 
pubes 12. L. divaricata. 
V. MYBRIOPHYLLA 
Leaf-blades subulate to elliptic-subulate: capsule dioe: 
globose 13. L. Deck 
Leaf-blades elliptie, sometimes narrowly so: capsule globose. 14. L. me un utu 
1. L. minor L. Stem 1.5-6 dm. tall, the often numerous branches rather 
. short, xu Or RM ascending, which terminate in open clusters: blades of 
the cauline leaves oval or elliptie, 0.8— 
em. long: basal shoots with strigose branches 
and suborbicular or hs Bb es: ealyx 
in fruit obovoid; inner mm. lon 
at pun UE Jm outer sepals deeidedly longer 
than i inner: eapsule oval or obovoid-oval, 
about 1.5 mm. . lon ng, include d.—Dry woods 
and banks, various uomen Fla. to La. 
Mieh., and Mass.— 
2. IL. villosa Ell Stem 3-8 dm. tall, with 
br 
short or long ascending branehes above, 
h ter te in den wer, fruit, 
elusters: foliage loosely, sometimes copiously 
pubescent with gray hairs: bla he 
cauline leaves elliptic, ps 2 i Eu 
basal shoots slender with numerous es ps elliptie, oval, or ovate blades 
much smaller than ices of ihe ca amiin e cleave calyx in fruit globos ose-turbinate 
and a e ed inner sepals about 1.5 m maturity, outer sepals slightly 
longer than the inner: capsule eo blontly 3 -angled, fully 1.5 mm. long, 
dhills 
sli EE pow —Dry woods, pinelands, san s, and prairies, various prov- 
inces, Fla. to Tex., Nebr., S Ont., and Mass.—Sum. 
. patula velie. Stem 1.5-4.5 dm. tall, iin s zar se Or 
rl 4—9 
divergent branches: blades of the cauline leaves linea nearly s 
long: basal Spots with linear-elli ipti o Or Wade “spatulate leaf blede: oum 
i pus EA inner sepals 1-1.5 mm. long at maturity; outer s epals aoe zt 
longer than the inner: capsule oval, “often eae 1.5 mm. long o 
exserted at the tip.—Dry.pi inelands, sand-dunes, and i ances Coastal Plain. 
Fla. to S. O.—Sum.-fall or all year r 5. 
4. L. tenuifolia Michx. Stem 1-3 dm. tall, laxly much-branched: foliage 
finely strigose: blades of the cauline leaves narrowly linear or linear-s ubulate, 
h es l 
at maturity; pu sepals much exceeding the inner: capsule subglobose or 
200 bu oi 1.5 mm. 1 or less, included.—Dry, often P or sandy 
en plains, d prairies, various provinces, Fla. to Tex., Kans., Wis., and 
Mass.—Spr.—fall. 
5. L. prismatica Small. Stem 1-3 dm. tall, loosely- -branched, the branches 
eauline 1 pd wly lin or linear ulat ; : 
shoots with narrowly ore “elliptic e to Ae ney leaf-blades: calyx in 
fruit narr es bie ate; inner sepals about 1.5 mm. long at maturity ? Pr 
sepals much longer than the inner: Rana ellipsoid- Dod about 
pops 3- angled, exserted at the tip.—Serub, S end of Lake Region, Fact 
Sum.—fal 
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