Lechea. CISTACE^. 193 



hoary with appressed pubescence ; cauline leaves puberuleut or glabrous, linear to linear- 

 oblong, 4 to 8 lines long, | to 1 ^ lines broad : panicle broad, dense, pyramidal : flowers red- 

 dish (at least in fading) ; calyx canescent; outer sepals nearly equalling or distinctly shorter 

 than the inner : capsule globose, about half line in diameter. — Leggett in Britton, Prelim. 

 Cat. N. J. 13, & Bull. Torr. Club, xxi. 249. L. thfjmifolia, Pursh, Fl. i. 91 ; Gray, Gen. 111. 

 i. 206, t. 88. L. minor, var. maritima, Gray, ms. Syn. Fl., & Man. ed. 6, 77. — Sandy soil 

 along and near the coast, Maine, Blake, Fernald, to Georgia, and (ace. to Britton) appar- 

 ently in White Mountains at Crawford Notch. 



-t— ■*-- Leaves of the sterile basal slioots relatively narrower, linear, linear-lanceolate, or 

 oblong-linear, the edges usually revolute : outer sepals not exceeding the inner (except in 

 L. tenui folia). 

 ++ Fruiting calyx globular or broadly ovoid, and with the nearly globose capsule mostly 



rather large for the genus. 

 = Inflorescence an elongated and usually narrow panicle, with short ascending branches. 



Li.* stricta, Leggett. Appressed silky-pubescent and canescent : stems strict, a foot or more 

 in height, very leafy : leaves and short branches ascending or often appressed, almost linear, 

 4 to 10 lines long ; those of the sterile shoots only 2 or 3 lines in length : capsule globose, 

 light brown, less than a line in diameter. — Leggett in Britton, 1. c. 251. L. minor, forma 

 stricta, Gray, ms. Syn. Fl. — Prairies of Illinois, Vasei/, Bebb ; Iowa and Wisconsin (ace. to 

 Britton); Minnesota (ace. to E.J. Hill) and (?) to Belleville, Canada, Macoun. A well 

 marked inland type but more doubtful in its eastern extension. Nearly related forms from 

 Maine, Fernald, are probably better referred to the following. 



Li.* intermedia, Leggett. Usually about a foot and a half high, not canescent nor silky- 

 villous but finely strigose-pubescent : stem leaves narrowly oblong, acute or acutish at both 

 ends, 6 to 12 lines long, f to H lines broad : elongated panicle rather dense : capsule glo- 

 bose, a line or more in diameter, larger than in the related species. — Leggett in Britton, 

 1. c. 252. ? L. minor, Pursh, Fl. i. 91 ; ? Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 72 ; Gray, ms. Syn. Fl., & Man. 

 ed. 6, 77, in part; not Linn, nor Walt, nor Lam. — Dry rocky soil, very common from New 

 Brunswick and Canada to Pennsylvania. 



= = Inflorescence much broader, pyramidal or subcorymbose : branches slender and deli- 

 cate, widely spreading. 



L.* Leggettii, Britton & Hollick. Ten inches to a foot and a half high, slender, finely 

 strigose pubescent or glabrate : cauline leaves linear, 5 to 10 lines long, usually acute at both 

 ends ; those of the sterile shoots linear to oblong-linear, 2 or 3 lines long, scarcely over half a 

 line wide : panicle diffuse, flowers mo.stly terminal and .subterminal or shortly racemose at 

 the ends of the slender branches : capsule obovoid, three fourths line in diameter : outer 

 sepals shorter than or barely equalling the inner, the latter (at least in some cases) indis- 

 tinctly 3-nerved. — Torr. Club, Prelim. Cat. N. Y. 6; Britton, Bull. Torr. Club, xxi. 251. 

 L. Leggettii, var. pulchella, Britton & Hollick, 1. c. Lamarck's L. minor, placed here by 

 Britton, is a very poor and dubious sketch. — Dry soil. Long Island and New Jer.sey to Vir- 

 ginia and (ace. to Britton) west to Indiana. Distinguished from the following in its sepals, 

 taller habit, and less distinctly racemose inflorescence. 



L. tenuifolia, Michx. Low, diffuse, slender, minutely appressed-pubescent or glabrous, 

 or the cespitose radical shoots more pubescent : leaves all small and narrow ; of tlie radical 

 shoots 2 lines long not half a line wide ; cauline filiform-linear and in the diffuse racemose- 

 paniculate inflorescence reduced to small subulate l)racts : flowers mostly very short-pedi- 

 celled : .sepals wholly destitute of lateral ribs : capsule ovoid-globose. — Fl. i. 77 ; Pursh, 

 Fl. i. 91 ; Ell. Sk. i. 185. L. minor, vars. /S & 7, Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 154. L. thesioides, 

 Spach in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 285. — Dry and sterile soil, especially in pine barrens, 

 E. Massachusetts to Florida, Texas, Arkansas, and Illinois.^ (Cuba.) 



■H- -H- Smaller-flowered : fruiting calyx narrower : capsule ellipsoidal. 



L. racemulosa, Lam. Erect, a foot or less high, with some soft silky pubescence when 

 young, soon nearly glabrous except the radical shoots : leaves less rigid, broad for the 

 section, mucronate ; those of the radical shoots hirsutely pubescent when young, narrowly 

 oblong, 2 or 3 lines long ; cauline oblong-linear, 4 to 6 lines long, of the branchlets narrowly 



1 Northwest to Wisconsin, ace. to Britton, 1. c. 250. 

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