CISTACEAE 799 



mm. long: leaves of the basal shoots oval or oblong, obtuse, 6-8 mm. long, 4-6 mm. 



wide: branches of the panicle ascending,, the ultimate branchlets often recurved: 



pedicels 1 mm. long: flowers more or less secund-scorpioid, close together: petals 



greenish purple: outer sepals about equalling the inner: pod depressed-globose, 1 mm. 



in diameter. 



In dry soil, Massachusetts to southern Ontario, Nebraska to Florida and Texas. 

 Summer. 



4. Lechea divaric^ta Shuttlw. Foliage densely villous-pubescent. Stems erect, 

 divaricately branched, the branches slender, very leafy: leaves of the stem and 

 branches small, 4-8 mm. long; blades oval, oblong or linear-oblong, acute, clothed 

 with spreading hairs on both surfaces: inflorescence very leafy: flowers obovoid: 

 pedicels about 2 mm. long, not secund: outer sepals shorter than the inner: pod 

 globose, nearly 2 mm. in diameter. 



In dry soil, Florida and Texas. Summer. 



5. Lechea maritima Leggett. Foliage tomentose-canesceut with whitish hairs. 

 Stems densely tufted, branching from the base, stout, rigid, 1.5-3 dm. high, the 

 primary branches spreading or ascending, numerous: flowering branches slender, stiff, 

 divergent, elongated: leaves of the stem 8-20 nun. long, 2-4 mm. wide; blades 

 linear or linear-oblong, blunt or acute: leaves of the basal shoots oblong or ovate- 

 oblong, mainly acute, 6-8 mm., long, 3-4 mm. wide, densely canescent: pedicels 1 mm. 

 long: flowers numerous, clustered: petals reddish: outer sepals shorter than the inner: 

 pod globose, 1 mm. in diameter. 



In sands of the seashore and in sandy pine lands, Massachusetts to Virginia and 

 Georgia. Summer. 



6. Lechea tenuifolia Michx. Foliage minutely strigose-pubescent. Stems 

 densely tufted, erect, slender, 1-3 dm. high, divaricately branched above, the branches 

 slender, elongated: leaves of the stem 4-15 mm. long, 1 mm. wide or less; blades 

 narrowly linear, or sometimes nearly filiform, acute, sessile, or very nearly so : leaves 

 of the basal shoots linear, sessile 6-8 mm. long, about 1 mm. wide : pedicels 2 mm. 

 long: flowers more or less secund, conspicuously bracted: petals red-purple: outer 

 sepals equalling or exceeding the inner in length: pod globose-oval, 1 mm. in diameter, 

 or slightly more. 



In dry open places, eastern Massachusetts to Wisconsin, Florida and Texas. Summer. 



7. Lechea pitula Leggett. Bushy, 1.5-4.5 dm. high, the foliage appressed- 

 pubescent. Stems usually divergently branched, but the branches sometimes ascend- 

 ing. Leaves of the stem and branches 4-9 mm. long, 1 mm. or less wide; blades 

 linear or oblong, acute: leaves of the basal shoots canescent; blades linear-oblong or 

 somewhat spatulate, subacute, 6-10 mm. long, 1-2 mm. wide: flowers minute: outer 

 sepals about equalling the inner in length: pod globose, 1 mm. in diameter. 



In dry soil. South Carolina and Florida. Summer. 



8. Lechea Torreyi Leggett. Foliage cinereous-pubescent. Stems much branched, 

 2.5-4.5 dm. high, the branches ascending: leaves of the stem and branches linear, 8-12 

 mm. long, about 2 mm. wide, acute, those of the basal shoots smaller and narrower, 

 finely appressed-pubescent : flowers numerous, short -pedicelled: calyx densely covered 

 with appressed white hairs: outer sepals shorter than the inner: pod ellipsoidal, 1.5 

 mm. in diameter. 



In dry soil. South Carolina and Florida. Summer. 



9. Lechea Legg6ttii Britt. & Holl. Foliage strigose-pubescent but green. 

 Stems erect, 2-6 dm. high, rather slender, spreading or ascending: leaves of the stem 

 10-25 mm. long, 1-2 mm. wide; blades linear or linear-oblong, acute or obtuse, sessile 

 or nearly so : leaves of the basal shoots oblong-linear, 4-6 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, 

 acute : panicle open, its branches slender and divergent : racemes somewhat secund : 

 pedicels 1-2 mm. long: petals brownish purple: outer sepals nearly equalling the inner 

 in length : pod obovoid, 1 .5 mm. in diameter. 



In dry open places. Long Island, New York to Indiana and North Carolina. Summer. 



10. Lechea Drummdndii (Spach) T. & G. Foliage sparingly pubescent. Stems 

 1-2 dm. high, slender, wiry, much branched, decumbent or erect, the branches ascend- 

 ing: leaf -blades narrowly linear, 6-12 mm. long, 0.5 mm. wide, scattered, the upper 

 minute: flowers solitary in the axils of the subulate bracts, secund, slender-pediceled: 

 pedicels deflexed, 2-4 mm. long in fruit; calyx strigose-pubescent: outer sepals about 

 as long as the inner: pod depressed-globose, 2 mm. in diameter. 



In dry soil, Texas. Summer. 



