14 DIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. gratiola, 



Hab. In ditches and pools. Pennsylvania. July— August- 

 Purs/i. This plant I have never seen. 



n.LINDERNIA. L, 



Calyx 5-parted. Corolla resupinate, tubular, 2- 

 lipped; upper lip short, reflected, emarginate; the lower 

 one trifid and unequal. Filaments 4 ; the two longer 

 forked and sterile. Capsule 2-celled, 2-valved ; disse- 

 piment parallel with the valves. Gen. pi. 1 03 1 . Nu 1 1. 

 Gen. I. p. 9. Juss. p. 122. Lam. III. t. DXXII. 

 Nat. Ord. Scrophulari^ Juss. Didynamia angio- 

 spermia Lin, 



1. L. dilalata M uhl. : leaves dilated at the base, am- 

 plexicaul, remotely toothed ; peduncles longer than the leaves^ 

 Elliott Sk. I. p. 16. Muhl. Cat. p. 61. Cat. PL 

 N. York, p. 10. Bart. Fl. Amer. Sept. I. p. 109. t. 

 31. L. pyxidaria Pursh Fl. II. p. 419. Gratiola ana- 

 gatlidea Mich. Fl. I. p. 6. G. inequalis Walt. Car. p. 61« 

 G. jloribus pedunculatis, Sic. Gran. Virg. p. 3. 



Boot annual. Stem procumbent, quadrangular, smooth, a little 

 branching, about 6 inches long. Leaves oblong, obscurely 

 3 — 5 nerved. Peduncles alternate, sometimes opposite above, 

 quadrangular, at length spreading horizontally. Segments of 

 the calyx nearly equal, ciliate. Corolla pale purple, 4-cleft ; 

 the upper segment broadest ; the inferior segments (forming 

 the lower lip) oval, obtuse. Filaments 4 ; two of them as long 

 as the corolla, sterile and forked; the shorter ones fertile. 

 Stigma 2-lipped. Capsule ovate, acute. Seeds numerous, 

 oval. 



Hab In wet meadows, borders of ponds, Sec. in the vicinity oi 

 New- York : much rarer than the next species. July — Sep- 

 tember. 



2. L. altcnuata M u h I. : leaves lanceolate and obovatej 

 narrowed at the base ; peduncles shorter than the leaves, 

 erect. El lio tt Sk.].^. 11. M uh I. CaL^). G\. Cat. PL 

 JV". York, p. 10. L. pyxidaria $. major Pursh Fl. IL 

 p. 419 (foliis repando-dentatis, pedunculis brevibus). 



Root annual. Ste?}i erect or procumbent, a little branched, 

 thicker than in the preceding species, quadrangular, smooth- 

 Leaves subspatulate-ohovate, serrate or dentate. Peduncles 

 at first shorter than the leaves, but at length equalling them. 

 Calyx nearly equal. Corolla and stamens as in L. dilatata. 



Hab. In similar situations with No. 1, but much more com 

 raon. July — September, 



