CISTACEAE. 



VOL. II. 



2. Hudsonia tomentosa Nutt. Wooll> 

 Hudsonia. False Heather. Fig. 2913. 



Hudsonia tomentosa Nutt. Gen. 2: 5. 1818. 



H, tomentosa intermedia Peck, Rep. N. Y. State 

 Mus. 45: 86. 1893. 



Densely tufted and intricately branched, mat- 

 ted, hoary -pubescent, pale, 4'-8' high ; branches 

 stout, ascending. Leaves about i" long, oval or 

 oblong, densely imbricated and appressed ; flow- 

 ers sessile, or on rather stout pedicels less than 

 3" long, numerous, slightly smaller than those 

 of the preceding species; sepals obtuse; stamens 

 9-18; capsules ovoid, glabrous, usually i-seeded. 



In sands of the seashore and in pine-barrens, New 

 Brunswick to Virginia, and on sand hills and lake 

 and river shores west to Mackenzie, Manitoba, North 

 Dakota and Wisconsin. May-July. Poverty- or bear- 

 grass. Dog's-dinner. Poverty-plant. Heath. Ground- 

 moss or -cedar. Beach-heather. 



3. LECHEA Kalm ; L. Sp. PI. 90. 1753. 



Perennial branching herbs, often woody at the base, with small entire leaves and minute 

 panicled greenish or purplish flowers. Sepals 5, the 2 outer smaller and narrower. Petals 

 3, ovate to linear, inconspicuous, persistent. Stamens 3-12. Stigmas 3, nearly sessile, laciniate, 

 prominent when the plant is in flower. Capsule 3-valved, 3-celled, or by obliteration of the 

 dissepiments i-celled, about 6-seeded. Embryo curved or spiral. [Named for Johan Leche, 

 a Swedish botanist, died 1764.] 



A genus of about 14 species, n of them natives of eastern North America, i Texan, i Cuban 

 and i Mexisan. Type species : Lechca minor L. Species indiscriminately known as Pin-weeds. The 

 characteristic basal shoots appear late in the season. 

 Leaves of the basal shoots oblong or ovate, not more than 3 times as long as broad. 



Outer sepals longer than the inner ; panicle very leafy. i. L. minor. 



Outer sepals equalling or shorter than the inner. 



Pod oblong; pedicels slender, \"z" long. 2. L.racemulosa. 



Pod globose ; pedicels about l / 2 " long. 



Erect, villous-pubescent. 3. L. villosa. 



Ascending, bushy-branched, tomentose-canescent. 4. L. maritima. 



Leaves of the basal shoots lanceolate or linear, usually more than 3 times as long as broad. 



Stem-leaves narrowly linear ; inner sepals i -nerved. 5. L. tenuifolia. 



Stem-leaves oblong-linear ; inner sepals 3-nerved. 

 Plants green, more or less pubescent. 



Pod obovoid, ]/*" in diameter; panicle-branches ascending or spreading. 6. L. Leggettii. 

 Pod globose, about i" in diameter; panicle-branches nearly erect, loosely flowered; 



flowers slend'er-pedicelled. 7. L. intermedia. 



Pod oval, about Yi" in diameter; panicle-branches erect-ascending, densely flowered; 



flowers short-pedicelled. 8. L. ji.niperina. 



Plant pale, canescent ; pod globose, y 2 " in diameter. 9. L.stricta. 



i. Lechea minor L. Thyme-leaved Pin-weed. 

 Fig. 2914. 



Lechea minor L. Sp. PI. 90. 1/53. 



Lechea thymifolia Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i : 77. 1803. 



Lechea novae-caesareae Aust. ; A. Gray, Man. Ed. 5, 81. 1867. 



Erect, 6'-2 high, freely branching above, more or less 

 pilose-pubescent with appressed hairs throughout. Branches 

 slender, erect or ascending; stem-leaves oval or oblong, 

 4"~7" long, 2"-3" wide, acutish or obtuse, ciliate, the upper 

 smaller and often narrower than the lower; petioles i" 

 long^; leaves of the basal shoots oval or oblong, obtusish, 

 3"-5" long. 2 ^ "-3" wide; panicle very leafy; flowers close 

 together, somewhat secund; outer sepals longer than the 

 inner and longer than the obovoid or globose pod. 



In dry open grounds, eastern Massachusetts to Ontario, 

 Michigan, Florida and Louisiana. Petals red-purple. Aug.- 

 Sept. 



