146 EVENING-PRIMROSE FAMILY. 



J. grandifldra. Marshes S. : hairy, with stems erect from a creeping 

 base, lanceolate acute leaves, flowers 2' in diameter, the 5 calyx lobes only half 

 as long as the petals, and pods cylindrical and stalked. 2/ 



J. ripens. In water from S. 111. S. : smooth, with creeping or floating 

 and rooting stems, oblong leaves tapering into a slender petiole, long-peduncled 

 flowers 1' or more across, with 5 calyx-lobes, the cylindrical or club-shaped pods 

 tapering at the base. 11 



». LUDWIGIA, FALSE LOOSESTRIFE. (Named for C. G. Ludtmg, 

 a German botanist, rather earlier than Linnreus.) Marsh herbs, with entire 

 leaves ; flowers seldom handsome, in summer and autumn. ^ 



§ 1 . Leaves alternate, mostly sessile. 



* Flowers peduncled in the vpper axils, with yellow petals {about ^' long) equalling 



the leaf-like ovate or lance-ovate calyx-lobes : stamens and styles slender : 

 pod cubical, strongly 4:-angled, opening by a hole at the top : stems 2° - 3° high. 



L. alternifolia. Common E., the only one found far N. : smoothish, 

 branching, with lanceolate leaves tapering to both ends, petals scarcely longer 

 than calyx, and angles of pod wing-margined. 



L. virgita. Pine barrens S. : downy, with mostly simple stems, blunt 

 oblong leaves or the upper linear and smaller, and petals twice the length of the 

 reflexed calyx. 



L. hlrtella. Pine-barrens from New Jersey S. : hairy, with simple stems, 

 oblong or lanceolate short and blunt leaves, and petals twice as long as the 

 barely spreading calyx-lobes. 



» * Flowers sessile in the tipper axils, small, and with pale yellow petals about the 

 length of the persistent calyx-lobes : stamens and style short: leaves on 

 flowering stems narroiv and linear. 



L. linearis. Swamps from N. Jersey S. : smooth, loosely branched, l°-3° 

 high, with acute leaves on the flowering stems, but obovatfi ones on creeping 

 runners ; pods oblong-clubshaped or top-shaped and much longer than the tri- 

 angular-ovate calyx-lobes. 



L. linifdlia, only S., is 6' -12' high, with blunter leaves, and cylindrical 

 pods little longer than the lanceolate calyx-lobes. 



* * * Flowers sessile, often clustered, and ivith no petals, or rarely mere rudi- 



ments : leaves mostly lanceolate, some species with obovate or spatulate leaves 

 on creeping runners : flowering stems mostly 2° -3° high. 

 •f- Doivny all over: floioers spiked or crowded at the end of the branches. 

 L. pilosa. Only S. : much branched, with lance-oblong leaves, and glob- 

 iilar-4-sidcd pod about the length of the spreading calyx-lobes. 



+- ■*- Smooth or smoothish throughout. 



L. cylindrica. From Illinois and N. Car. S. : much branched, with long 

 lanceolate and acute leaves tapering into a petiole, small axillary flowers, and 

 cylindrical pods much longer than the small calyx-lobes. 



L. sphaeroc^rpa. From E. New England S. : with lanceolate or linear 

 leaves acute at both cuds, very small flowers in the axils, and globular pods not 

 longer than the calyx-lobes, with hardly any bractlets at their base. 



L. polyc^rpa. From Michigan S. : like the last, but smoother, and with 

 eonspicuous slender bractlets at the base of the 4-sidcd rather top-shaped pod, 

 which is longer than the calyx-lobes. 



L. capit^ta. From N. Carolina S. : with slender simple stems angled 

 towards the top, long lanceolate leaves ; flowers mostly crowded in an oblong or 

 roundish tenninal head, and obtusely 4-anglcd pod longer than the calyx-lobes. 



L. al^ta. From N. Cai'oiina S. : with simple or sparingly braiK'hcd stems 

 strongly angled above, few flowers, in the axils of the upper wedge-lanceolate 

 leaves, and an inversely pyramidal pod as long as the white calyx-lobes, with 

 concave sides and winged angles. 



L. microo^rpa. From N. Carolina S. : the low stems creeping at base 

 and 3-angled above, leaves spatulate or obovate, with minute flowers in theii* 

 axils, the short 4-angled pods not larger than a pin's head. 



