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ovate-oblong (2 lin«s long) : ovules 10 to 18. — L. Spec. i. 147 (not of Syst. Veg., where it is 

 confounded with L. ciliata, L.) ; Lam. 111. t. 101, f. 2. L. /wtea, &c., Pluk. Amalth. t. 48, 

 f. o. L. punctata, Walt. L. hirsiita, Michx. — Sandy or gravelly soil, New Brunswick and 

 Canada to Wisconsin and Georgia. 



L. asperulsef olia, Poir. A foot or more higli, mostly glabrous : leaves in whorls of 3 

 or 4, or some opjiosite, ovate-lanceolate from a broad closely sessile base, o-5-ribbed, glau- 

 cous beneath, an inch or so in length ; the upper reduced to bracts of a small leafy-bracted 

 raceme : pedicels not longer than the flowers : divisions of the corolla lanceolate, 3 or 4 

 lines long. — Diet. Suppl. iii. 477 (wrongly said to come from Egypt) ; Duby in DC. I.e. 

 L. Ilerbcmoiiti, Ell. Sk. i. 232 ; Chapm. 1. c. — Pine woods, N. Carolina to Georgia. 



L. stricta, Ait. A foot or two high, glabrous, soon branched, very leafy ; the axils 

 bearing fascicles of small leaves or sometimes torose bulblets : leaves opposite and occa- 

 sionally alternate, lanceolate, acute at both ends, nearly veinless ; the upper mostly 

 abruptly reduced to linear or subulate bracts of a long and closely many-flowered virgate 

 raceme : petlicels filiform, longer than the flowers : divisions of the corolla lanceolate or 

 oblong, 3 lines long. — Ilort. Kew. ed. 1, i. 199. L. vidijaris, Walt. Car. 92. L. racemosa, 

 Lam. ; Michx. Fl. i. 128. L. bull)i/era, Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 104. Viscum terrestre, L. Spec, 

 ii. 1023, bulbiferous and flowerless. — Wet ground, Newfoimdland to Saskatchewan and 

 Upper Georgia. 



Var. prodlicta, Gray, with a long and loose foliaceous-bracted raceme, gradually 

 passing into ordinary leaves ftubtending filiform pedicels : flowers rather larger. — L. race- 

 mosa, Miclix. I. c. (jierb.), in part. — New York and Michigan. 



Var. angustifolia, Chapm. Leaves all narrowly lanceolate and linear, a line or 

 two broad : raceme rather few flowered. — L. angustlfoUa, Michx. 1. c. L. Lvomisii, Torr. in 

 Croom, Cat. PI. Newbern, 40. — Low country, N. Carolina to Georgia. 



* * * Flowers (rather large), sohtary in the axils of ordinary leaves : corolla not dark-dotted nor 

 streaked: filaments slightly monadelpiious at base. 



Li. nummularia, L. (Moneywort.) Glabrous: stems prostrate and creeping: leaves 

 orbicular, short-petioled : sepals cordate-ovate, valvate and reduplicate in the bud, nearly 

 equalling the corolla. Sparingly naturalized, escaped from gardens into moist grounds 

 in N. Atlantic States. (Eu.) 



§ 2. NAUMBunoiA. Corolla with hardly any tuhe deeply 5- (or even 6-7-) 

 parted into linear divisions (light yellow and somewhat purplish-dotted), and with 

 a small tooth interpo.sed in each sinus : filaments distinct, slender, equal : leaves 

 opposite, those at the base of the stem reduced to scales. — Naumburgia, Moench. 

 Tliyrsanthus, Schrank. 



L. tliyrsiflora, L. Glabrous or becoming so : stem a foot or two high from a slender 

 rootstock, naked below : leaves lanceolate, sessile : peduncles only from 2 or 3 pairs of 

 lower axils, much shorter than the leaf, bearing several or numerous small flowers in a 

 dense head or oblong spike: capsule glandular-dotted, few-seeded. — EngL Bot. t. 176; 

 Fl. Dan. t. 517. L. capitata, Pursh, Fl. i. 135. — Wet bogs, Pennsylvania to Canada and 

 northward, thence west to Oregon and Alaska. (Eu. to Japan.) 



9. G-LiAUX, Tourn. SiCA-MiLKWORT. (From yP.ai'XoV, sea-green.) — Single 

 species. Flowers dimorphous as to reciprocal length of filaments and style. 



G. maritima, L. A somewhat succulent little herb, glabrous and glaucous or pale, 

 perennial by slender running rootstocks : stems a span or less high, erect or spreading, 

 very leafy : leaves from oval to oblong-linear, a quarter to half inch long, entire, sessile : 

 calyx-lobes oval, purplish or white. — Salt marshes along both sea-coasts, from New Eng- 

 land and from California northward ; also in the interior west of the Mississippi, in sub- 

 saline soil : fl. summer. (Eu., Asia.) 



10. ANAGALLIS, Tourn. Pimpernkl. (Ancient Greek name, prob- 

 ably from <lr<i, again, and ayuXkco, to delight in.) — Low herbs, mainly annuals 

 and of the Old World, one indigenous to Chili, one widely naturalized round the 



