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Lechea. L. 3. 3. Pin Weed. 



Named in honor of Lecheo, Professor of Natural History at 

 Abo ; small insignificant plants, and natives of North America. 



L. major. L. Fall Pin Weed. Stem 1-2 feet high, 

 erect, hairy, stiff, brittle, purple, with oval leaves downy, and 

 pale beneath, and small obscure flowers, and producing capsules 

 as large as a pin's head ; blossoms in July, on rocks or dry grounds. 



L. minor. L. Low Pin Weed. Stem 8-12 inches high, 

 erect, branched, smoothish, with linear-lanceolate leaves, rolled 

 back at the margin ; flowers minute, producing capsules smaller 

 than the preceding ; July ; barren fields. 



L. racemulosa. Mx. Branching Pin Weed. Whole plant 

 about the size of the other, but more branched in proportion, 

 and covered with a close pubescence ; leaves hnear ; July ; dry 

 fields. 



L. thymifolia. Ph. Woolly Pin Weed. A species found 

 further south, but lately found in the eastern part of our State. 

 E. Tuckerman, Jr. Stem a foot high, erect, with hnear, acute 

 leaves ; branches short, with a leafy long panicle of very small 

 flowers ; whole plant whitish, villous ; sandy places ; July. 



ORDER 136. SARRACENIE^. 



Calyx of 5 persistent sepals, and often an involucre of 3 

 leaves on the outside ; 5 hypogynous, concave petals with 

 claws ; stamens indefinite ; ovary superior, 5-celled, with a single 

 style, and a dilated peltate, 5-angled stigma ; leaves radical, with 

 a hollow, urn-shaped petiole, and an articulated hd over it ; flower- 

 stalk or scape bears one large flower. 



Properties of no consequence. Plants confined to marshes or 

 wet places of North America ; one genus. 



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