252 
The nearest affinity of this species is with the preceding, with 
which I have sometimes thought of uniting it. It was distributed 
as L. Torreyi in Mr. Heller's Virginia collections of 1893. 
12. LECHEA TRIPETALA (Moc. & Sesse). 
Helianthemum tripetalum Moc. & Sesse; D.C. Prodr. 1: 284 
(1824). (Founded on unpublished plate of Mocino and Sesse). 
Lechea Skinneri Benth. Bot. Voy. Sulph. 99 (1844). (Type in 
Kew Herbarium.) 
Low, 7-15 cm. high, much branched, clothed with long, 
whitish, appressed hairs. Leaves of the stem and branches fili- 
form or linear, acutish, 8-10 mm. long, mm. or less wide; 
“leaves of the radical shoots narrower, appressed-canescent with 
long hairs;’ flowers short-pedicelled; outer sepals subulate, 
longer than the inner, all densely pubescent; capsule depressed- 
globose, 2-2.5 mm. in diameter. 
Guatemala (Skinner); San Luis Potosi (Parry and Palmer, No. 
31); near Guadalajara, Jalisco (Pringle, No. 4496). 
13. LECHEA INTERMEDIA Leggett. 
Lechea Leggetti var. intermedia Britt. & Holl. Prel. Cat. N.Y. : 
6 (1888), name only. cae 
Erect, strict, 2-5 dm. tall, branching above, sparingly strigos¢- 
pubescent. Branches nearly erect, short, slender; leaves of the 
stem oblong-linear, 1-2 cm. long, 2-3 mm. wide, acute, nearly 
sessile; leaves of the radical shoots oblong-linear, shorter than 
those of the stem, 8-10 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, somewhat larger 
than those of ZL. Leggettii; pedicels 2-4 mm. long, slender; outer 
sepals not longer than the inner; capsule globose or depres 
globose, 2 mm. in diameter. 
In dry, mostly rocky soil, New Brunswick and Ontario t0 — 
Pennsylvania. ae | 
This very well marked species is almost confined to hilly of 
mountainous districts. Its radical shoots are mature in Novem 
ber. 
14. Lecnea Drummonp1 (Spach) T. & G. a 
Lecidium Drummondii Spach, Comp. Bot. Mag. 1: 287 (1835): 4 
(Type in the Paris Herbarium.) : pe. 
Lechea Drummondii T. & G. Fl. N. A. 1: 184 (1838). (TYPE — 
in Columbia College Herbarium.) f oe 
