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ovate-oblong (2 lines long) : ovules 10 to 18. L. Spec. i. 147 (not of Syst. Veg., where it is 

 confounded with L. ciliata, L.) ; Lam. 111. t. 101, f. 2. L. lutta, &c., Pluk. Amalth. t. 48, 

 f. 3. L. punctata, Walt. L. hirsuta, Michx. Sandy or gravelly soil, New Brunswick and 

 Canada to Wisconsin and Georgia. 



L. asperulaefolia, Poir. A foot or more high, mostly glabrous : leaves in whorls of 3 

 or 4, or some opposite, ovate-lanceolate from a broad closely sessile base, S-5-ribbed, glau- 

 cous beneath, an inch or so in length ; the upper reduced to bracts of a small leafy-bracted 

 raceme : pedicels not longer than the flowers : divisions of the corolla lanceolate, 3 or 4 

 lines long. Diet. Suppl. iii. 477 (wrongly said to come from Egypt) ; Duby in DC. I.e. 

 L. Herbciiioidi, Ell. Sk. i. 232 ; Chapm. 1. c. Pine woods, N. Carolina to Georgia. 



L. stricta, Ait. A foot or two high, glabrous, soon branched, very leafy ; the axils 

 bearing fascicles of small leaves or sometimes torose bulblets : leaves opposite and occa- 

 sionally alternate, lanceolate, acute at both ends, nearly veinless ; the upper mostly 

 abruptly reduced to linear or subulate bracts of a long and closely many-flowered virgate 

 raceme: pedicels filiform, longer than the flowers: divisions of the corolla lanceolate or 

 oblong, 3 lines long. Hort. Kew. ed. 1, i. 199. L. vulgaris, Walt. Car. 92. L. racemosa, 

 Lam.; Michx. Fl. i. 128. L. bulbifera, Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 104. Viscum terrestre, L. Spec, 

 ii. 1023, bulbiferous and flowerless. Wet ground, Newfoundland to Saskatchewan and 

 Upper Georgia. 



Var. producta, Gray, with a long and loose foliaceous-bracted raceme, gradually 

 passing into ordinary leaves subtending filiform pedicels : flowers rather larger. L. race- 

 mosa, Michx. 1. c. (herb.), in part. New York and Michigan. 



Var. angustifolia, Chapm. Leaves all narrowly lanceolate and linear, a line or 

 two broad : raceme rather few flowered. L. angustifolia, Michx. 1. c. L. Loomisii, Torr. in 

 Croom, Cat. PI. Newbern, 46. Low country, N. Carolina to Georgia. 



* * * Flowers (rather large), solitary in the axils of ordinary leaves: corolla not dark-dotted nor 

 streaked: filaments slightly monadelphous at base. 



L. NUMMULARIA, L. (MoxETWORT. ) Glabrous : stems prostrate and creeping: leaves 

 orbicular, short-petioled : sepals cordate-ovate, valvate and reduplicate in the bud, nearly 

 equalling the corolla. Sparingly naturalized, escaped from gardens into moist grounds 

 in N. Atlantic States. (Eu.) 



2. NAUMBURGIA. Corolla with hardly any tube deeply 5- (or even 6-7-) 

 parted into linear divisions (light yellow and somewhat purplish-dotted), and with 

 a small tooth interposed in each sinus : filaments distinct, slender, equal : leaves 

 opposite, those at the base of the stem reduced to scales. Naumburgia, Moench. 

 Tkyrsanthus, Schrank. 



L. thyrsiflora, L. Glabrous or becoming so: stem a foot or two high from a slender 

 rootstock, naked below : leaves lanceolate, sessile : peduncles only from 2 or 3 pairs of 

 lower axils, much shorter than the leaf, bearing several or numerous small flowers in a 

 dense head or oblong spike: capsule glandular-dotted, few-seeded. Engl. Bot. t. 176; 

 Fl. Dan. t. 517. L. aipitata, Pursh, Fl. i. 135. Wet bogs, Pennsylvania to Canada and 

 northward, thence west to Oregon and Alaska. (Eu. to Japan.) 



9. GrLAUX, Tourn. SEA-MILKWORT. (From j'P.avxoV, sea-green.) Single 

 species. Flowers dimorphous as to reciprocal length of filaments and style. 



G. maritima, L. A somewhat succulent little herb, glabrous and glaucous or pale, 

 perennial by slender running rootstocks : stems a span or less high, erect or spreading, 

 very leafy : leaves from oval to oblong-linear, a quarter to half inch long, entire, sessile : 

 calyx-lobes oval, purplish or white. Sa.lt marshes along both sea-coasts, from New Eng- 

 land and from California northward ; also in the interior west of the Mississippi, in sub- 

 saline soil: fl. summer. (Eu., Asia.) 



10. ANAG-ALLIS, Tourn. PIMPERNEL. (Ancient Greek name, prob- 

 ably from dm, again, and a/a/Uw, to delight in.) --Low herbs, mainly annuals 

 and of the Old World, one indigenous to Chili, one widely naturalized round the 



