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Lechea racemulosa Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1:77. 1803. Racemose Leciiea. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 184. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 78. Chap. El. ed. 3, 37. C4rav, Svu. El. N. A. 1, pt. 

 1 : 193. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Southern New England west to Iowa, south 

 from Tennessee to South Carolina. 



Alabama : Mountain region, in dry rocky soil. Clay County, Baldrock, 2,200 feet. 

 Marshall County, on Lookout Mountain range, 1,200 feet. Cullman County, 800 feet. 

 Blount County. .July; frequent. 



Type locality: "Hab. in Virginia." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Lechea villosa Ell. Sk. 1 : 184. 1817. Pinweed. 



Lechea major Michx.Fl.Bor. Am. 1:16. 1803. Not L. 



Ell. Sk. 1. c. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 77 ; Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 1 : 192. Chap. El. 36 ; ed. 3, 37. 



Alleghenian to liOuisianiau area. Ontario; southern New England to Michigan, 

 Missouri, and Arkansas, south to Florida. 



Alabama: Throughout. Dry sterile soil, worn-outfields, pastures. Most abundant 

 in the Lower Pine region and Coast plain. Flowers May, June. 1^ to 2 feet high. 



Type locality of L. major Michx. : " Hab. in apricis aridis Carolinae." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Lechea divaricata Shuttleworth ; Britton, Bull. Torr. Club, 21:249. 1894. 



Lechea major divaricata Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 1 : 192. 1896. 



Mexico. " Divaricately-branched Pinweed. 



Louisianian area. Florida to Texas. 



Alabama: Coast plain, littoral region. Dry sandy banks. Baldwin County, 

 eastern shore Mobile Bay (Battle's Wharf). Sandy exposed shore of Fish River Bay, 

 October 4. 1894. Running shoots fully develojied, divaricately branched, canescentlj'' 

 villous with long spreading or adpressed hairs like the fascicled, ovate, slightly 

 pointed leaves. Stem 8 to 10 inches high, smoothish below, divaricately branched 

 above the middle. Flowers September, October; not frequent. 



Type locality : " Florida (Rugel, Garber, Curtiss), Texas (E. Palmer, No. 2025)." 



Lechea tenuifolia Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 77. 1803. Narroav-leaf Leciiea. 



Lechea minor var. y Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. A. 1 : 154. 1838. 



Ell. Sk. 1 : 185. Grav, Man. ed. 6, 77. Chap. Fl. 37, in part. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 

 1, pt. 1 : 193. 



Cuba. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Eastern Massachusetts to Wisconsin, south to 

 Florida, Texas, and Arkansas. 



Alabama : Coast Pine belt. Dry open places, sandy pine ridges, old fields. Mobile 

 and Baldwin counties. Flowers September, October; common. 



Type locality : " Hab. in coUibus sabulosis juxta amnem Santee." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Lechea patula Leggett, Bull. Torr. Clnl), 6 : 251. 1875. Spreading Lechea. 



Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 1 : 194. 



Louisianian area. South Carolina to Florida, west to Mississippi? 

 Alabama: Coast ])lain. Dry sandy pine ridges. Mobile County, Siiringhill ; rare. 

 Type locality : South Carolina and Florida. 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Lechea torreyi Leggett; Britton, Bull. Torr. Club, 21 : 251. 1894. 



Torrey's Leciiea. 



Lechea racemiilosa Iioo]i. .lonin. Bot. 1: 193. 1834. Not Michx. 



Lechea cinerea torreyi Chap. Fl. ed. 3, 37. 1897. 



Gray. Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 1 : 194. 



Louisianian area. South Carolina to Florida, west to Mississippi (Horn Island). 



Alabama: Littoral region. Dry sands, near seashore. Baldwin County, eastern 

 shore Mobile Bay. Mo1)il County, Dauphin Island. Flowers June, July; rare. 



Type locality o{ L. raremulosa Hook.: "Covington, Louisiana." Of L. torreyi: 

 "Florida and South Carolina." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Lechea legettii Britt. & Holl. Prel. Cat. N. Y. 6. 1888. Legett's Lechea. 



Lechea minor Lam. Tabl. Encycl. 1 : 221, t. 53, f. 1. 1791. Not L. 



Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 1, pt. 1 : 193. 



Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Long Island, New York, Pennsylvania, and 

 Virginia, south to South Carolina and Florida, west to Arkansas. 



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