48 Class III. Order III. 



An upright hairy plant, found upon rocks, dry hills, and sandy 

 fields exposed to the sun. Stem from one to two feet high, stiff, 

 brittle, purple, covered with hair. Leaves nearly oval, reflex- 

 cd at the margin, downy, whitish underneath. Flowers small, 

 obscure, crowded upon the ends and sides of the branches, fol- 

 lowed by roundish capsules of the size of a large pin head. 



July, August. 



LECHEA MINOR. L. Small Pin weed. 



Smoothish, leaves linear-lanceolate, acute; panicle 



leafy, its branches elongated, flowering on all sides. 



Grows with the last in dry sterile situations, and is about half 

 its size, its branches finer and more spreading. Leaves narrow, 

 revolute at the margin. Branches numerous, mostly simple. 

 Flowers minute, in small lateral and terminal racemes. Capsules 

 round, not larger than mustard seed. July, August. 



LECHEA RACEMULOSA. MX. Clustered Pin weed. 



Covered with close hair ; leaves linear, acute, cili- 

 ate ; panicle slender, pyramidal ; flowers alternate, 

 pedicelled. 



About the size of the last, but more hairy, and its clusters 

 more naked. Dry fields. July, August. 



52. MOLLUGO. 



MOLLUGO VEHTICILLATA. L. Carpet weed. 



Leaves whorled, wedge-form, acute ; stem subdi- 

 vided, decumbent ; peduncles one flowered. L. 



A small, flat, spreading plant common in cultivated ground. 

 Stems prostrate, jointed, simple, or compound, giving off at each 

 joint a whorl of wedge-shaped or spatulate leaves, and a few 

 small flowers on simple footstalks. Flowers at midsummer and 

 after. Annual. 



53. PROSERPINACA. 



PROSERPINACA FALUSTRIS. L. Spear leaved Proserpinaca. 

 Lower leaves subpinnatifid or cut-serrate ; the rest 

 linear-lanceolate, sharply serrate. Mich. 



