f^YfliMACHiA. PENTANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. QIl 



fourth their length, about 3 inches long, an inch and a half 

 broad, not dotted; upper ones in fours." Flowers nearly as 

 large again as in L. quadrifolia. Peduncles 1 -flowered. Seg- 

 ments of the calyx lanceolate, acuminate, longer than the lipe 

 capsule. Corolla deeply 5-cleft ; segments somelioaes short- 

 acuminate, crenulate. Stamens nearly equal ; Jilamcnts short, 

 glandular, not dilated at the base, inserted into a ring at the 

 orifice of the corolla, with intermediate teeth ; anthers linear, 

 at length recurved. Cafisule 5-celled, many-seeded. 

 Hab. In wet thickets, and on the margins of rivers. July. 



4. L. hybrida M i £ h. : slem smooth ; leaves opposite, pe- 

 tiolate, lanceolate, acute at each extremity; petioles ciliate; 

 ilowers nodding; peduncles axillary; corolla crenulate. 

 M ic h. Fl. I. p. 126. Pursh Fl. I. p. 136. Roem, ir 

 Schult. IV. p. 126. L. hcUrophylla Nutt. Gen. I. p. 

 J 21. L. angust.i/(jji(^ W iii d. Enum. h, Berol. I. p. 195. 



Root perennial. Stei^ a foot and a half high, angular. Lower 

 leaves ovate-Janceolatc, upper linear-lanceolate, in threes or 

 fours, narrowed &t ihe i)ase into a petiole which is distinctly 

 ciliate. Pedutick? axillary, shorter than the leaves. Seg- 

 ments of the calyx ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla 

 longer than the calyx; divisions abruptly acuminate, crenulate. 

 Stamens nearly equal, with intermediate short processes ; an- 

 thers linear, at length recurved. Cafisule 5-valved, many- 

 seeded. 



Hab. In swamps and on the muddy banks of rivers. Common 

 in the Newark meadows, New-Jersey. July — August. 



I think this species is scarcely more than a variety of the 

 preceding ; the principal mark of distinction being its nar- 

 rower leaves, -which are never cordate at the base. 



5. L. longifotia Ph. : stem branched, smooth ; leaves 

 opposite, sessile, linear, very long, upper ones in fours; pe- 

 duncles in fours, subtermiaal, I-llo\vered; segments of the co- 

 rolla ovate, acuminate, serrulate. Pursh Fl. 1. p. 135. 

 Roem. ^' Schult. IV. p. 12 L L. quadrifolia Sims, 

 BoL Mas. t. 6G0. A i t. Ktw. ed. 2. II. p. 315. Elliott 

 Sk. I. p.'^234, 



J^oot pefpnnidl. Stem 2 — 3 feet high, slender, angular. Leaves 

 of the stem about 2 lines broad, Hat, very acute, tapering at 

 the base, not dotted ; fioral leaves verticillate. Flowers mostly 

 on the extremity of the brandies, at length nodding. Seg- 

 ments of the calyx luiear-lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla a 

 third longer than tl)e calyx, aliruptly acuminate, crenate. Sta- 

 mens subeqiial, vvith intermediate teeth; anthers oblong. 

 Cafisule 5-valved, many-seeded. 



Hah. In wet woods, near ponds. Pennsylvania to Virgii.ia. 



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