90 TRIANDRIA. TRIGYNIA. 
125. MOLLUGO. ZL. 
Calix 5-leaved, coloured inside. Corolla 0. 
Capsule 3-celled, 3-valved. 
" Leaves mostly verticillate; flowers axillary and ter- — 
Mninal. 
Srecres. 1. ©. verticillata. A genus consisting of 6 
species, inhabiting India, Africa, and America, 
126. LECHEA. Kalm. L. 
Calix 3-leaved. Petals 3, linear. Styles 0, 
stigmata 8, plumose. Capsule 3-celled, 3-valved, 
with as many other interior valves. Seeds 1 in 
each cell. 
Herbaceous or suffruticose plants, with the habit of 
Linum; leaves alternate or opposite; uncles many-flow- 
ered, either axillary or in terminal panicles. Stamens 
sometimes 4 or 5. : 
Species. 1. ZL. villosa, (L. major, Micu.) 2. minor. 
3. racemulosa. 4. thymifolia, 5. tenuifolia. 
-An American genus, with the exception of the Z. ver- 
cillata of India. 
127. ERIOCAULON. ZL. (Pipe-wort.) 
Common calix many-leaved, many-flowered; 
. = calix superior of 2 or S leaves. — Male 
~ flowers central. Coroila monopetalous, cloven. 
—Female flowets marginal; corolla of 2 petals. 
_ Stigmas 2 or 8 Capsule of 2 or 3 cells, cells 
1-seeded. 
Scapes angular, sheathed at the base; leaves radical> 
| gramineous; flowers imbricated in an hemispherical capi* 
tulum within a common calix, (as in Syngenesious plants)» 
_ the central flowers masculine, marginal feminine. 
_ Srecres. 1. EB. decangulare. 2. gnaphalodes. 3. pellu- 
_— cidum, 4, villosum. 5. flaviculum 2 
_. & genusconfined to India, Australasia, South and North 
America. There is also 1 speciesin Europe. Mr. R. Brown 
__ has ascertained about 30 species of this genus, many of 
which are indigenous to New Holland. Ge 
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