Limoselila.] SCROPHULARINES. 489 
6. LIMOSELLA, Linn, 
Small tufted creeping glabrous marsh or aquatic plants. 
Leaves opposite or fascicled at the nodes, rarely alternate on 
barren shoots, long-petioled, linear or spathulate, quite entire. 
Flowers minute, axillary, solitary. Calyx campanulate, 5-toothed 
or -lobed. Corolla campanulate or almost rotate ; tube short ; 
lobes 5, nearly equal. Stamens 4; filaments filiform ; anther-cells 
confluent. Ovary 2-celled at the base ; style short ; stigma clavate 
or subeapitate. Capsule obscurely dehiscent or septicidally 
9-valved; valves thin, membranous. Seeds numerous, small, 
ovoid, transversely rugulose. 
A genus comprising 6 or 7 species, found in most parts of the world. 
Leaves 4-14 in. long; lamina not much broader than the 
petiole. Flowers pedicelled ; corolla and capsule longer 
than the calyx : Pic 5: a 45 
Leaves 2-5in. long; lamina ovate, suddenly contracted 
into the slender petiole. Flowers sessile; corolla and 
capsule shorter than the calyx ie Hic .. 2. L. Curdieana. 
1. L. tenwifolia. 
1. L. tenuifolia, Nutt. Gen. N. Amer. ii. 43.—Annual or peren- 
nial, creeping and tufted, often forming patches 1-2 in. diam. or 
more. Leaves densely fascicled, 4-14 in. long, rarely more, narrow- 
linear or linear-subulate, often with little or no distinction between 
petiole and blade, but sometimes dilated towards the tip and be- 
coming narrow linear-spathulate. Flowers minute, in. diam., 
axillary, on very short pedicels. Calyx 5-toothed. Corolla rather 
longer than the calyx; lobes ovate-oblong. Capsule ovoid-globose, 
exceeding the calyx when mature.—L. australis, R. Br. Prodr. 448. 
L, aquatica var. tenuifolia, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 190; Handb. 
N.Z. Fil. 204. L. ciliata, Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxi. (1889) 96. 
Norte anp SourH Istanps: Common in wet places throughout. Sea- 
level to 3000 ft. November-February. 
Often considered to be a variety of the widely diffused L. aquatica, Linn.., 
but the leaves have not the conspicuous lamina of that species, and the whole 
plant is usually much smaller. It also occurs in Australia and Tasmania, in 
temperate North and South America, and in some parts of Europe. 
2. L. Curdieana, F'. Muell. Fragm. Phyt. Austral. ix. 166.— 
A perennial herb with tufts of radical leaves, emitting short thick 
stolons terminating in other tufts, glabrous in all its parts. Leaves 
numerous; petiole 2-4in. long or more, filiform, terete, dilated 
towards the base; blade 1-3 in. long, ovate or ovate-oblong, obtuse, 
suddenly contracted into the petiole, rather thin; main veins 3-5, 
parallel, with reticulating veinlets between. Flowers crowded at 
the bases of the petioles, sessile, minute. Calyx in. long or less, 
tipped with 5 minute teeth. Corolla altogether included in the 
