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4. LECHEA DIVARICATA Shuttlw. 
Erect, divaricately branched, branches slender, very leafy, 
densely villous-pubescent. Leaves of the stem and branches small, 
4-8 mm. long, oval, oblong or linear-oblong, acute, clothed with, 
spreading hairs on both surfaces; inflorescence very leafy ; flowers 
obovoid ; pedicels about 2 mm. long, not secund; outer sepals 
shorter than the inner; capsule globose, nearly 2 mm. in diameter. 
Florida (Rugel, Garber, Curtiss), Texas (E. Palmer, No. 2025). 
Distributed under the above name by Shuttleworth from 
Rugel’s Florida collections, but apparently here first described. I 
have not seen the radical shoots and am consequently uncertain of 
the alliance of the species, but think there is little doubt of its 
near relationship to L. villosa. 
5. LeEcHEA MARITIMA Leggett. 
Lechea thymifolia Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 91 (1814), not Michx.. 
(Type in the Kew Herbarium.) 
Lechea maritima Leggett; Britton, Prel. Cat. N. J. 13 (1881). 
(Type in Columbia College Herbarium.) 
Lechea minor var. maritima A. Gray, Man. Ed. 6, 77 (1890). 
(Type in Gray Herbarium.) 
Densely tufted, branching from the base, stout, rigid, 1.5-3 
tall, tomentose-canescent with whitish hairs. Primary branches 
Spreading or ascending, numerous; flowering branches slender, 
divergent, elongated; leaves of the stem linear or linear-oblong, 
obtuse or acute, 8-20 mm. long, 2-4 mm. wide; leaves of the rad- 
ical shoots oblong or ovate-oblong, 6-8 mm. long, 3-5 mm. wide, 
ensely canescent ; pedicels 1 mm. long; flowers densely clus- 
tered ; outer sepals slightly shorter than the inner; capsule glo- 
°se, I mm. in diameter. 
In sands of the sea-shore and in sandy pine barrens, Massa- 
chusetts to Georgia. Apparently also at the Crawford Notch, — 
ite Mountains of New Hampshire. : 
The radical shoots of this species do not begin to form until 
autumn and are not fully developed until December. 
dm, 
late 
6. LECHEA TENUIFOLIA Michx. 
Lechea minor var. y T.& G. Fl. N. A. 1: 154 (1838). (Type in 
Columbia College Herbarium.) ue 
_Lechea tenuifolia Michx. Fl. Bor.,Am. 1: 77 (1803). (Type in > s 
: Michaux Herbarium.) a : oe 
