680 



ClSTACEAE 



Lechea 



50 



Map 1427 



Lechea minor L 



50 



Map 1428 



Lechea racemulosa Lam 



1. Lechea villosa Ell. Large Pinweed. Map 1426. In dry or moist, 

 sandy soil, generally on open, wooded slopes or crests of black oak and 

 chestnut oak ridges and on low dunes or in interdunal flats. Infrequent in 

 the lake area, rare in the knob area, and probably absent from most of the 

 central counties of the state. It was no doubt present in some of the 

 prairies of the central counties but these are now all under cultivation. 



Vt. and Mass. to s. Ont. and Nebr., southw. to Fla., Tex., and n. Mex. 



2. Lechea minor L. Map 1427. In very dry, sandy soil on wooded slopes 

 or at their bases in moist, sandy soil. Rare. 



N. H. and Vt. to Fla. and Miss. ; also in Ont., Mich., and Ind. 



3. Lechea racemulosa Lam. Map 1428. In clay soil in black and white 

 oak woods in the knobstone area and in dry, sandy soil in the lake area. 

 (See Rhodora 40: 100. 1938.) Very local. 



N. Y. to Ind., southw. to Fla. and Tenn. 



4. Lechea tenuifolia Michx. Map 1429. In poor soil on the crests and 

 slopes of black and white and chestnut oak ridges in the southern part 

 of the state and in dry or moist, sandy soil in pin oak woods and on the 

 dunes in the northern part. 



N. H. to Wis. and Nebr., southw. to Fla. and Tex. 



5. Lechea stricta Leggett. Map 1430. Reported by Peattie from Lake 

 County. A. R. Hodgdon, who monographed the genus, found specimens in 

 the Field Museum from Lake and Starke Counties collected by E. J. Hill. 



Western N. Y. to 111. and Minn. 



6. Lechea Leggettii Britt. & Holl. var. moniliformis (Bickn.) Hodg- 

 don. (Rhodora 40: 118-119. 1938.) (Lechea Leggettii Britt. & Holl. 

 of Indiana authors) . Map 1431. In moist sandy soil in depressions in black 

 oak woods and in prairie habitats. Restricted to the sandy areas of the 

 lake area. 



Mass. to Ind. and Mich., southw. to N. C. 



