Vor. II.] LOOSESTRIFE FAMILY. 
1. Ammannia coccinea Rottb. Long- 
leaved Ammannia. (Fig. 2539.) 
Ammannia coccinea Rottb. Pl. Hort. Havn. Deser.7. 1773. 
Ammannia latifolia T. & G. Fl. N. A. 1: 480. 1840. 
Not lL. 1753. 
Erect, glabrous, branching below, 6/’-20’ high. 
Leaves linear-lanceolate, all obtusely cordate-auriculate 
and dilated at the somewhat clasping base, acuminate 
or acute at the apex, entire, 1/-3/ long, 1//-3/’ wide; 
flowers I-5 in each axil, sessile or very nearly so; 
petals purple, fugacious; style elongated, very slender, 
usually more than one-half the length of the capsule. 
In swamps, southern Indiana and Iowa to Kansas, south 
to Florida, Louisiana, Texas, Mexico and Brazil. Also on 
the Pacific Islands. We have seen no specimens from east 
of the Alleghanies. July—Sept. 
3. Ammannia auriculata Willd. 
Wright’s Ammannia. (Fig. 2541.) 
Ammannia auriculata Willd. Hort. Berol. 7. 7. 7. 
1806. 
AmmanniaWrightii A, Gray, Pl. Wright. 2:55. 1853. 
Erect, 2’-10/ high, at length widely branching. 
Leaves sessile, linear-lanceolate or oblong, acute 
oracutish at the apex, auriculate at the base, 14/- 
14’ long, about 2’’ wide; flowers in axillary pe- 
duncled cymes; pedicels 14’/-114’’ long; petals 
purple; style slender; stamens exserted; capsule 
partly enclosed by the calyx. 
_Nebraska and Kansas to Texas, Ecuador and Bra- 
zil, Also in Asia and Africa. May-June. 
Ammannia Koehnei Britton, Bull. Torr. 
Club, 18: 271. 1891. 
Ammannia humilis p T. & G. Fl. N. A. 1: 
480. 1840. 
Erect, glabrous, 6’-20’ high, at length 
freely branching. Leaves obovate, ob- 
lanceolate, or somewhat spatulate, obtuse 
or obtusish at the apex, the upper oncs 
clasping and more or less auriculate at the 
base, the lower narrowed and sessile or 
tapering into a short petiole; flowers 1-3 
together in the axils, sessile; petals pur- 
ple (?), fugacious; stamens very short, 
not exserted; style very short; capsule 
enclosed by the calyx. 
In swamps, Hackensack marshes, N. J., 
to Florida. July-Sept. 
