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CISTACE.E. (ROCK-ROSE FAMILY.) 
1. JL. major, Michx. (Larger Pinweed.) Hairy; stem up¬ 
right, simple, producing slender prostrate branches from the base ; 
leaves elliptical , mucronate-pointed, alternate and opposite or some¬ 
times whorled ; flowers densely crowded in panicied clusters ; pedicels 
shorter than the globose-depressed (very small) pods. — Woodlands. 
July - Sept. — Plant 1° - 2° high, stout. 
2. L,. tliy mi folia, Pursh. (Thyme-leaved Pinweed.) Hoary 
with oppressed hairs , especially the decumbent stout leafy shoots 
from the base; flowering stems ascending, loosely branched, with the 
leaves linear or oblanceolate; those of the shoots elliptical , whorled, 
crowded; flowers scattered in small and loose clusters; pedicels as 
long as the globose pods. — Sandy coast, New Jersey to Maine. 
July-Sept.— Scarcely a foot high, tufled, rigid; the pods larger 
than in No. 1. r 6 
3. L,. minor, Lam. (Smaller Pinweed.) Minutely hairy; 
stems slender, upright or diffuse; leafy shoots densely tufted at the 
base; leaves linear; flowers loosely racemed on the slender branch- 
lets; pedicels mostly longer than the globose pods. — Dry open 
soil. June - Sept. Plant 5' - 15' high, slender, running into num- 
t«rless vanauons according to the soil and season. Pods smaller than 
Order 17 . DROSERACEiE. (Sundew Family.) 
Bog-herbs , mostly glandular-haired, with regular hypo- 
gynous flowers, penlamerous and withering-persistent calyx 
corolla, and stamens, and a 1 -celled pod with twice as many 
styles or stigmas as there are parietal placenta. —Calyx 
imbricated. Petals convolute. Stamens 5 - 15 : anther, 
Zo°:;r rd K • Se ;t numerous ’ anatr °p° us ’ ** * 
bud 7 e ‘n C d r a| burne n . Leaves circinate in the 
bud, e . rolled up from the apex to the base like a fern. 
1. DBOSEBA, L. Sunoew. 
Stamens 5. Styles 3, or sometimes 5, deeply 2-parted so th„r 
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clothed with reddistJr^t~ r. Perennial8 ’ ^ the leaves 
tuft at the base • the & k a bnstles > ln our species all in a 
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