250 
Lechea thestoides Spach, Comp. Bot. Mag. 1: 284 (1835). (Type 
in Paris Herbarium.) 
Densely tufted, stems erect, slender, 1-2.5 dm. high, divari- 
cately branched above, minutely strigose-pubescent.. Branches 
slender, elongated; leaves of the stem narrowly linear or nearly 
filiform, 4-15 mm. long, 1 mm. or less wide, acute, sessile, or 
very nearly so; leaves of the radical shoots linear, sessile, 6-8 
mm. long, about 1 mm. wide; pedicels 2 mm. long ; flowers more 
or less secund, bracted by the minute upper leaves; outer sepals 
equalling or slightly exceeding the inner; capsule globose, I mm. 
or a little more in diameter. 
In dry, open places, Eastern Massachusetts to Wisconsin, 
south to Florida and Texas. s 
7. LecHEA CuBENsis Leggett. 
Lechea Cubensis Leggett, Bull. Torr. Club, 6: 252 ( 1878). Type 
in Columbia College Herbarium.) 
Erect, branched, 1-1% dm. high, finely appressed-pubescent 
throughout, the branches filiform, ascending. Leaves of the stem 
and branches filiform, 4-8 mm. long, scarcely 0.5 mm. wide; flow- 
ers oblong, not secund; pedicels filiform, 4-6 mm. long; outer 
sepals slightly shorter than the inner; capsule globose, about ! : # 
mm. in diameter. 
_ Cuba (C. Wright, No. 3518). 
_ This interesting species, known to me only from one collec- 
tion, is placed next to L. cenuifolia, but the material for examina 
tion is too meagre to afford a satisfactory diagnosis. It is cet 
tainly distinct from any of the rest. Its radical shoots are Ur 
known. | 
8. LECHEA PATULA Leggett. ae 
Lechea patula Leggett, Bull. Torr. Club, 6: 251 (1878). (Type 
in Columbia College Herbarium). | 
Bushy, usually divergently branched, but branches annie | 
ascending, appressed-pubescent, 1.5-4.5 dm. high. Leaves 0 t 
stem and branches linear or oblong, acute, 4-9 mm. long, 1 mm- 
or less wide; leaves of the radical shoots canescent, linear-oblong 
or somewhat spatulate, subacute, 6-10 mm. long, 1-2 mm. Wl 69 
flowers minute, globose; outer sepals about equalling the imnety 
capsule globose, I mm. in diameter. . 
Florida and South Carolina. ee 
_ This was distributed by Shuttleworth from Rugel’s collection® — 
as L. nana. ; : 
