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4. Lechea maritima Leggett. Beach 
Pin-weed. (Fig. 2478.) 
Lechea thymifolia Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 91. 1814. 
Not Michx. 1803. 
L. maritima Leggett in Britt. Prel.Cat. N.Y.13. 1881. 
L. minor var. maritima A.Gray,Man.Ed. 6, 77. 1890. 
Densely tufted, branching from the base, stout, 
rigid, 6’-10’ high, tomentose-canescent with 
whitish hairs. Primary branches spreading or 
ascending, numerous; flowering branches slen- 
der, stiff, divergent, elongated; leaves of the stem 
linear or linear-oblong, blunt or acute, 4//-10’’ 
long, 1/’-2’’ wide; leaves of the basal shoots 
oblong or ovate-oblong, mainly acute, 3//-4// 
long, 114’’-2’’ wide, densely canescent; pedicels 
%4” long; flowers numerous, clustered; petals 
reddish; outer sepals shorter than the inner; 
pod globose, 14’’ in diameter. 
Sands of the seashore and in sandy pine-barrens, 
Massachusetts to Virginia, and Georgia (according 
to S. Watson), Alsoat the Crawford Notch, White 
Mts., N. H. 
5. Léchea tenuifolia Michx. Nar- 
row-leaved Pin-weed. (Fig. 2479.) 
techet tenutfolia Michx. Fl. Bor. Am, I: 77. 
1803. 
Densely tufted, stems erect, slender, 4/— 
10’ high, divaricately branched above, mi- 
nutely strigose-pubescent. Branches slen- 
der, elongated; leaves of the stem narrowly 
linear, or sometimes nearly filiform, 2’/—7/’ 
long, 1%’ wide or less, acute, sessile, or very 
nearly so; leaves of the basal shoots linear, 
sessile, 3//-4/” long, about 1%4’’ wide; pedicels 
1’ long; flowers more or less secund, con- 
spicuously bracted by the upper leaves; 
outer sepals equalling or exceeding the inner; 
pod globose-oval, 4’’ in diameter, or slightly 
more. 
In dry’open places, eastern Massachusetts to 
Wisconsin, south to Florida and Texas. Petals 
red-purple. July-Aug. 
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6. Lechea Leggéttii Britt. & Holl. 
Leggett’s Pin-weed. (Fig. 2480.) 
Lechea minor Lam. Tabl. Encycl. pl. 52, f 7. 
1791? Not L. 1753. 
Lechea Leggettii Britt. & Holl. Prel. Cat. N. Y. 
6. 1888. 
Erect, rather slender, freely branching, 
more or less strigose-pubescent, 10’-2° high. 
Branches slender, spreading or ascending; 
leaves of the stem linear or linear-oblong, 
acute or obtuse, 5’/-12’’ long, 14’/-1’’ wide, 
sessile or nearly so; leaves of the basal shoots 
oblong-linear, 2’/-3’’ long, 14’’ wide, acute; 
panicle open, its branches slender and diver- 
gent; inflorescence somewhat secund; pedi- 
cels %/-1’’ long; outer sepals nearly equal- 
ling the inner; capsule obovoid, 14’ in 
diameter. 
In dry open places, Long Island, N. Y., to In- 
diana, south to North Carolina. Leaves of the 
basal shoots full-grown in November. Petals 
brownish purple. July—Aug. 
