942 EPILOBIACEAE 
Leaf-blades narrowly spatulate: sepals about as 
long as one hypanthium. 7. L. Curtissii. 
Capsule 3-8 mm. long. "M 
Blades of the en leaves spatulate. 8. L. spathulifolia. 
Blades of the stem-leaves not spatulate. 
Capsule about as thick as long, not 'cyli ndri 
Foliage and fruit glabrous or merely aor ased: 
uberulent. 
Flowers in a terminal head or congested 
panicle. 9. L. suffruticosa. 
Flowers on. elongate interrupted spikes or 
ar 
Güpsule turbinate, cubic-turbinate, or 
obpyram 
Capsule slightly our than broad, 
th unded or merely 
squar 
Eon glabrous, the angles 
unded : bractlets adnate to 
the hypanthiu 
Capsule buberule nb the angles 
square: bractlets not adnate to 
the hypanthium. 11. L. simulata. 
Capsule Sien y broader than long, 
the angles winged or margined. 
Sepals Sone as broad as long, 
almost id long as the capsule: 
seeds o 12. L. alata. 
re broader than long, % as 
the capsule: seeds 
fad 
0. L. polycarpa. 
cylü ndr Pic 13. L. lanceolata. 
Capsule globular. 14. L. a 
Foliage and fruit copiously pilose-tomentose. 15. L. pilosa 
Capsule cylindric. 16. L. glandulosa. 
Petals as long as or longer than the sepals. 
Capsule celindric, terete or nearly so. 17. L. lini oe 
Capsule narrowly obpyramidal. 18. L. lin 
1. L. alternifolia L. Plant 6-12 dm. tall: leaf-blades lanceolate, 6-12 
long: eee ovate: p oa cd the sepals: capsule slightly winged 
on the angles, dnd mm — (SE X.)— oye 
E and w done s paccm 
Fla. to Tex., Kans ., Ont., and N. H.—Spr.- 
fall 
Michx. Plant fastigiately 
branched, pens or nearly so; leaf-blades 
linear anceolate: 
Mu slightly winged on the angles.—Pine- 
ands, Coastal Plain, Fla. to Miss. and N. C. 
= nr. —fall. 
L. maritima Harper. Plant fastigiately 
Ker uen glabrous or nel so: le - blades 
linear to lanceolate: sepals twice long 
as the hypa satiate. oim "eue eapsule very inu = on 
angles, 2 mm. long.—Ditches and low pinelands, pen. Fla—Spr— 
4. L. hirtella Raf. Plant 3-6 dm. tall: leaf-blades elliptic-lanceolate or 
ovate-lanceolate, 2.5-3 em. long: sepals ovate-lanceolate: petals longer s the 
T capsule cubie above the rounded base, about 5 mm. long.—Moist sand, 
ainly in acid pinelands, Coastal Plain and adj. provinces, Fla. to Tex., Tenn., 
aud N. J. —Spr.—fall. 
rocarpa Michx. Plant low or depressed: sess spatulate or 
os ae, K 5-3 cm. long: sepals triangular: petals wanting: capsule 
broadly obpyrami 1.5-2 mm. long.—Hammocks, limesinks, and Pac 
Coastal Plain, Fla. n Miss. and N. C.—Spr.-fall. 
