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pubescent, and with some loose marginal hairs, the petioles 1~2.5 
min. long, appressed white-pubescent on the under side; stem- 
leaves linear to oblong-linear and oblanceolate, mostly tapering 
towards the base and more abruptly narrowed at the apex, acute or 
subacute, 1-2.2 cm. long, 2-4 mm. wide, those of the branches 
much smaller, narrowly linear, acute; inflorescence forming a dense 
and leafy narrow panicle, 10-20 cm. long (in reduced plants much 
smaller and more or less terminal), the numerous short-pedicelled 
flowers crowded in short axillary racemes and clustered at the 
ends of the branches; fruiting calyx ovoid-ellipsoid, 1.5-2 mm. 
long; pedicels 1-3 mm. long, often very short in the clustered 
terminal flowers; inner sepals elliptic, subacute, nerveless or 
faintly 3-nerved, reddish-purple, at least on the margins, the 
Shorter outer sepals usually bright green in marked contrast; 
capsule ovoid-subglobose, 1.52 mm. long ; petals reddish-purple, 
oblong-linear, with only a mid-vein, about 2 mm. long by I mm. 
wide; leaves of basal shoots narrowly elliptic, acute at each end, 
somewhat pilose-hairy on the midrib and margins or nearly 
glabrate. The plant blooms in August. The basal shoots do not 
begin to develop until September. 
In reduced states the plant is only 1-3 dm. high and linear in 
general outline, the more persistent leaves appressed, the shortened 
Panicle more or less terminal and sometimes only 1 cm. wide. 
A form which grows in the shade of Copses or park-like woods 
is more slender and less leafy than the typical plant of neighbor- 
ing open ground, the leaves looser and often spreading, the more 
Open panicle much less floriferous and more racemose-paniculate. 
Specimens have been examined from various localities along 
and near the Maine coast from York Harbor to Mt. Desert. 
Lechea intermedia Leggett differs from L. juniperina in less 
tufted habit and often larger size, becoming 7 dm. tall. The pu- 
bescence is somewhat coarser and more strigose, and composed of 
shorter, less whitened hairs, never becoming tomentose or canes- 
cent. Thestem is usually greener, with the more persistent leaves | 
less crowded and appressed and with more verticillate tendency. 
The leaves are often larger and longer, becoming 2.8 cm. long and 
5 mm. wide, and are rarely if ever distinctly oblanceolate. The 
Panicle is more or less loose and open with fewer and larger, more 
globose, longer-pedicelled flowers, which are mostly loosely race- 
mose and never glomerate-clustered. The broader usually orbicu- 
lar sepals are green or only with the slightest purplish tinge and 
strongly nerved, the nerves often five in number and branched; 
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