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shorter, less whitened hairs, never becoming tomentose or canes- 

 cent. The stem is usually greener, with the more persistent leaves 

 less crowded and appressed and with more verticillate tendency. 

 The leaves are often larger and longer, becoming 2.8 cm. long and 

 5 mm. wide, and are rarely if ever distinctly oblanceolate. The 

 panicle is more or less loose and open with fewer and larger, more 

 globose, longer-pedicelled flowers, which are mostly loosely race- 

 mose and never glomerate-clustered. The broader usually orbicu- 

 lar sepals are green or only with the slightest purplish tinge and 

 strongly nerved, the nerves often five in number and branched ; 

 the petals are larger and broader and mostly 3-nerved, the stigmas 

 twice as large, the outer sepals commonly shorter and closer. The 

 leaves of the basal shoots are often larger and relatively narrower 

 and usually more hairy. 



LecJiea sMcta Leggett, as compared with L. juniperina^ is a 

 paler, more silky-canescent plant, especially when young, the nar- 

 rower acute leaves more pubescent, even pubescent over the lower 

 surface and sparsely hairy above, the branches longer and massed 

 above to form a broader panicle, the rather smaller and more glo- 

 bose longer-pedicelled flowers not at all glomerate, but distinctly 

 racemose-paniculate and showing little or no purple. 



L. jiiniperina appears to occupy a somewhat intermediate posi- 

 tion between L. intermedia and L. maritima Leggett, although it 

 need never be confused with the latter. L. maritima is, in fact, very 

 distinct from all our species and is strongly characterized by its 

 rigidly bushy-branched habit, dense tomentose-canescence and 

 the oblong densely-pubescent leaves of the basal shoots. 



