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Perennial. Stem erect, 1 8 inches high, when old glabrous. Leaves 

 imall, narrow. Fiourers nearly sessile, forming racemes at the ter- 

 mination of each branch. 



Grows in dry soils. 



Flowers through the summer. 



3. Tenuifoli\. Mich. 



L. sparse pilosa ; fo- | Somewhat hairy; leaves 

 liis subulato-linearibus ; subulate linear; panicle 

 panicula divaricata ; flo- divaricate ; flowers soli- 

 ribus solitariis, racemosis- | tary, inracen.es. 



Mich. 1. p. 77, Pursh, I. p. 91. 

 I. junci folia ? Walt. p. 83. 



Plant small, shrubby. Stems decumbent and assurgent, branches 

 ttpandmg Capsules large when compared to the size <»f the plant 

 wd the other si>ecies of this genus. Mich. Bracteas wanting:. Wait. 



^rows on the sand hills near the Santee river. Mich. 



'lowers May — July. 



4. Thymifolia. Mich. 



li. cano-viilosa ; foliis I Hoary, villous ; leaves 

 ibus, acutis ; pani- linear, acute 



panif 



culis elongatis ; floiibus | long ; flowers in lateral 

 asciculatis, lateralibus [ and terminal clustei 



'erniinalibusque. 



Mich. I.p.r7. Pursh, 1. p. 91. 



K Mkh.'*' '^^^^' ""^Sh. Panicle erect. Flotvers in leafy clus 



Jrows in arid soils. 

 * lowers May— August. 



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