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[Sub-genus I.]  Menandra, 
r. L. pulchella, Raf. Quite smooth; stem stiff virgate ; leaves 
scattered, long linear, acute: flowers paniculate and lax in naked 
racemes; bracts none; exterior sepals subulate, internal ovate, 
obtuse; petals elliptic, obtuse, incarnate; capsule obovate.—In the 
Pine-barrens of New Jersey, probably extending South. Probably 
the Z. racemulosa of many botanists, but not Mx., which is pubescent 
with ciliate leaves. It is a very pretty species when in full bloom in 
August, the calyx being red inside, the petals incarnate, the large 
stigma white. The erect stiff stem produces hundreds of flowers at 
once, it is about one foot high, and only branched above. Several 
varieties; 1. Minor, only 2 to 4 inches high, panicle leafy; 2. 
Elegans, over a foot high, panicle fastigiate; 3. Pyramidalis, branches 
pyramidal. [L. minor, Lam ?] 
2, L. cinerea, Raf. (L. thymifolia, Mx., etc.) Adpressed pub- 
escent, cinereous fastigiate; leaves scattered, narrow linear adpressed; 
racemes paniculate, pauciflore, subnaked; flowers canescent outside, 
sepals lanceolate acute; capsule oblong, longer.—In Florida and 
Georgia: deemed ZL. racemulosa by Collins, easily known by its 
color, perhaps the real thymifolia. [L. Torreyi, nob. | 
s. [. ternifolia, Raf. (Menandra ramis ternis, Gronov.) Stem 
paniculate above, adpressed pubescent ; leaves and branches mostly 
ternate, cuneate, acute, ciliate, nearly smooth ; racemes paniculate, 
lax, nearly naked; peduncles elongate, capsules oblong. In Virginia, 
New Jersey, and probably elsewhere. This must be the real 
racemulosa of Mx., who quotes Gronovius. Pedal; calyx colored of 
red as in LZ. pulchella. [L. racemulosa, Mchx. ?] 
4. L. furfuracea, Raf. Pubescent pulverulent; stem erect; 
branches fastigiate above ; leaves narrow, linear, scattered, nearly 
obtuse ; racemes terminal, naked; pedicels unequal; exterior calyx 
subulate, very short, internal rounded; capsules globose.—In Ken- 
tucky and Illinois, 6 to 10 inches high; flowers greenish outside with 
a yellow furfle [scurf]. Nearest to Z. cinerea, easily known by the 
mealy pa dae pte and globose capsules. [Unknown.] 
5. L. laxiflora, Raf. Smooth; stem erect paniculate; branches 
lax; leaves scattered, linear, cuneate, acuminate, ciliate; racemes 
scattered, lax ; flowers remote, naked; pedicels elongate ; calyx and 
capsules ovate.—In New Jersey Pine Woods with Z. pulchella, to 
which akin; difference in leaves chiefly, flowers green not red out- 
side. [L. minor, Lam. ?] 
6. L. tenuifolia, Mchx., Elliot, or L. verna, Raf. (L. junci- 
folia, Walter). Humble, dumose, pilose ; stems assurgent ; branches 
spreading ; leaves scattered, subulate, linear, ranemes paniculate, 
divaricate, flowers remote, axillary, solitary ; capsules globose large. 
—Said to grow on the R. Santi of Carolina, and to blossom earlier 
than any other, in April and May. No external calyx according to 
Elliot, yet very near to some Zudiexa with long external calyx. __ 
:e L. recurvata, Raf. Hispid assurgent ; branches opposite and 
ternate : leaves broad oblong, acute at both ends, ciliate; racemes 
spicate recurvate, unilateral; pedicels very short; sepals oval ; 
capsules globose.—In Carolina and Virginia; akin to L. ternifolia 
