Class III. Order III. 



TRIGYNM. 



37. LECHEA. 

 LECHEA MAJOR. L. Large Pin weed. 



Leaves ovate-lanceolate, flowers lateral, scatter- 

 ed. L. 



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, reflexed at the margin, downy, whitish underneath. Flow- 

 ers small, obscure, crowded upon the ends and sides of the 

 branches, followed by roundish capsules of the size of a large 

 pin head. July, August. 



LECHEA MINOR. L. Small Pin iceed. 



Leaves linear-lanceolate, flowers panicled. L. 



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

 its size, its branches finer and more spreading. Stem upright, 

 less hairy than the last, giving off leaves and branches somewhat 

 in whorls. Leaves narrow, re volute at the margin. Branches 

 numerous, mostly simple. Flowers minute, in small lateral 

 and terminal racemes. Capsules round, not larger than mus- 

 tard seed. July, August. 



38. MOLLUGO. 

 MOLLUGO VERTICILLATA. L. Carpet weed. 



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

 divided, 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 midsumrm-! 

 and after. 



