Limonium PLUMBAGINAC— PRIMULACEAE Lysimachia 



PLUMBAGINACEAE (Leadwort Family) 



Limonium Hill. 



L. caroUnianum (Walt.) Britton. Sea Lavender. 



Common in salt meadows, southeastern New Castle County, 

 and southward to Cape Charles. Late July into Sept. \fj^ C 



L. Nashii Small var. trichogonum Blake. 



Rare: border of salt marsh e. of Eastville (No), Fernald & 

 Long, 5404. 



PRIMULACEAE (Primrose Family) 



Hottonia L. 

 H. inflata Ell. Featherfoil. 



Infrequently collected, but probably much more common than 

 has been supposed, in shallow water of ponds and slow streams on 

 the Coastal Plain. Known from New Castle, Kent (Del.), Caroline 

 and Sussex Counties. 



First collected in our area by Edward Tatnall, who found a 

 single plant in a pond near Ogletown (NC) in 1840 (D). The next 

 and subsequent collections are: Choptank Millpond (Ca), Frank M. 

 Jones, 22 May 1922 (A, D); upper end of Silver Lake, Dover (K), 

 F. M. Jones and R. R. Tatnall, 914, 15 June 1930 (A, T, G) ; Wy- 

 oming Pond (K), H. R. Baker, 17 June 1923 (UD); in Round Pole 

 Branch, 2}4 mi. s. of Milton (S), R. R. Tatnall, 3245, 11 April 1937, 

 and several later collections (T, A, P, G); in Choptank Pond 

 (Ca), Julian V. Hill, 4 May 1941 (T). Flowers appear normally 

 in April and May ; occasionally as late as November on young plants 

 which have germinated in late summer. These sometimes bloom 

 sparingly in the autumn, then, after surviving as winter annuals, 

 burst into full bloom in early spring. 



Samolus L. 



S. parviflorus Raf. {S. floribundus HBK. See Weatherby & 

 Griscom: Rhodora 36, 50. 1934.) Water Pimpernel. 



Common on fresh or salt tidal shores of the Coastal Plain. Late 

 May through the summer. 



Lysimachia L. Loosestrife. 

 L. vulgaris L. 



Rare, on banks of the Susquehanna River: Conowingo (Ce), 



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