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Sir J. E. Smith-apparently regarded the species which I take 
up as L. villosa Ell. (L. major Michx., not L.) as the true L. minor, 
and previously to my examination of the Linnzan types I -had 
taken this view, and it so appears in my Catalogue of Plants. 
found in New Jersey. But I was unable to trace this to any of 
the synonyms cited by Linnzus, and while it is clearly a part of 
the original, it seems to me that the name more properly belongs 
to the species as characterized above. 
‘2. LECHEA RACEMULOSA Michx. 
Lechea racemulosa Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 77 (1803)- (Type 
in Michaux Herbarium). 
Erect, 1.5-4.5 dm. high, freely branching above, slight 
pilose-pubescent throughout with appressed hairs. Branches 
slender, divergent or ascending; leaves of the stem oblong °F 
linear-oblong, obtuse or subacute, narrowed at the base, 8-20 mm. 
long, 3-4 mm. wide; leaves of the radical shoots oval or oblong, 
4-8 mm. long, 3-6 mm. wide, obtuse ; petioles about 2mm, ane 
panicle sparsely leafy ; flowers oblong on slender, divergent Bee 
cels 2-4 mm. long; outer sepals equaling or shorter than 
inner ; capsule ellipsoid. h 
In dry, sandy and rocky soil, Martha’s Vineyard to Sout 
Carolina, west to Indiana and Tennessee. 
3. LECHEA VILLOSA Ell. 
Lechea major Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 76 (1803), not L. (Type 
in Michaux Herbarium.) 
Lechea villosa Ell. Bot. S. C. & Ga. 1: 184 (1817). (Type ei 
Elliott Herbarium.) 
Erect, stout, villous-pubescent with spreading hairs, 3-6 dm. 
tall, branching above or sometimes throughout, leafy. ape 
ascending or the lower sometimes spreading ; leaves of the s 
oblong-elliptic, obtuse but pointed, 11%4—2% cm. long, 68 als : 
wide; petioles 1 mm. long; leaves of the radical shoots in 
oblong, obtuse, 6-8 mm. long, 4-6 mm. wide; ultimate bran 
lets often recurved; pedicels 1 mm. long; flowers more OF 
secund-scorpoid, close together; outer sepals about equaling 
inner; capsule depressed-globose, 1 mm. in diameter. _ 
In dry fields, Massachusetts to Florida, west to Southem 
Ontario, Illinois and Texas. es 
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