CISTACEAE 799 



mm. long : leaves of the basal shoots oval or oblong, obtuse, 6-8 mm. long, 4-6 mm. wide : 

 branches of the panicle ascending, the ultimate branchlets often recurved : pedicels 1 mm. 

 long : flowers more or less secund-scorpioid, close together : petals greenish purple : outer 

 sepals about equalling the inner : pod depressed-globose, 1 mm. in diameter. 



In dry soil, Massachusetts to southern Ontario, Nebraska to Florida and Texas. Summer. 



4. Lechea divaricata Shuttlw. Foliage densely villous-pubescent. Stems erect, 

 divaricately branched, the branches slender, very leafy : leaves of the stem and branches 

 small, 4-8 mm. long ; blades oval, oblong or linear-oblong, acute, clothed with spreading 

 hairs on both surfaces : inflorescence very leafy : flowers obovoid : pedicels about 2 mm. 

 long, not secund : outer sepals shorter than the inner : pod globose, nearly 2 mm. in 

 diameter. 



In dry soil, Florida and Texas. Summer. 



5. Lechea maritima Leggett. Foliage tomentose-canescent with whitish hairs. 

 Stems densely tufted, branching from the base, stout, rigid, 1.5-3 dm. high, the primary 

 branches spreading or ascending, numerous : flowering branches slender, stiff, divergent, 

 elongated : leaves of the stem 8-20 mm. long, 2-4 mm. wide ; blades linear or linear-oblong, 

 blunt or acute : leaves of the basal shoots oblong or ovate-oblong, mainly acute, 6-8 mm, 

 long, 3-4 mm. wide, densely canescent : pedicels 1 mm. long : flowers numerous, 

 clustered : petals reddish : outer sepals shorter than the inner : pod globose, 1 mm. in 

 diameter. 



In sands of the seashore and in sandy pine lands, Massachusetts to Virginia and Georgia. Summer. 



6. Lechea tenuif olia Michx. Foliage minutely strigose-pubescent. Stems densely 

 tufted, erect, slender, 1-3 dm. high, divaricately branched above, the branches slender, elon- 

 gated : leaves of the stem 4-15 mm. long, 1 mm. wide or less ; blades narrowly linear, or 

 sometimes nearly filiform, acute, sessile, or very nearly so : leaves of the basal shoots 

 linear, sessile, 6-8 mm. long, about 1 mm. wide : pedicels 2 mm. long : flowers more or 

 less secund, conspicuously bracted : petals red-purple : outer sepals equalling or exceeding 

 the inner in length : pod globose-oval, 1 mm. in diameter, or slightly more. 



In dryjopen places, eastern Massachusetts to Wisconsin, Florida and Texas. Summer. 



7. Lechea patula Leggett. Bushy, 1.5-4.5 dm. high, the foliage appressed-pubescent. 

 Stems usually divergently branched, but the branches sometimes ascending. Leaves of the 

 stem and branches 4-9 mm. long, 1 mm. or less wide ; blades linear or oblong, acute : leaves 

 of the basal shoots canescent ; blades linear-oblong or somewhat spatulate, subacute, 6-10 

 mm. long, "1-2 mm. wide : flowers minute : outer sepals about equalling the inner in 

 length : pod globose, 1 mm. in diameter. 



In dry soil, South Carolina and Florida. Summer. 



8. Lechea Torreyi Leggett. Foliage cinereous-pubescent. Stems much branched, 

 2.5-4.5 dm. high, the branches ascending: leaves of the stem and branches linear, 8-12 mm. 

 long, about 2 mm. wide, acute, those of the basal shoots smaller and narrower, finely ap- 

 pressed-pubescent : flowers numerous, short-pedicelled : calyx densely covered with ap- 

 pressed white hairs: outer sepals shorter than the inner: pod ellipsoidal, 1.5 mm. in 

 diameter. 



In dry soil, South Carolina and Florida. Summer. 



9. Lechea Legg6ttii Britt. & Holl. Foliage strigose-pubescent but green. Stems 

 erect, 2-6 dm. high, rather slender, spreading or ascending : leaves of the stem 10-25 mm. 

 long, 1-2 mm. wide ; blades linear or linear-oblong, acute or obtuse, sessile or nearly so : 

 leaves of the basal shoots oblong-linear, 4-6 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, acute : panicle open, 

 its branches slender and divergent : racemes somewhat secund : pedicels 1-2 mm. long : 

 petals brownish purple : outer sepals nearly equalling the inner in length : pod obovoid, 

 1.5 mm. in diameter. 



In dry open places, Long Island, New York to Indiana and North Carolina. Summer. 



10. Lechea Dnimmdndii (Spach) T. & G. Foliage sparingly pubescent. Stems 

 1-2 dm. high, slender, wiry, much branched, decumbent or erect, the branches ascending : 

 leaf-blades narrowly linear, 6-12 mm. long, 0.5 mm. wide, scattered, the upper minute : 

 flowers solitary in the axils of the subulate bracts, secund, slender-pedicelled : pedicels de- 

 flexed, 2-4 mm. long in fruit ; calyx strigose-pubescent : outer sepals about as long as the 

 inner : pod depressed-globose, 2 mm. in diameter. 



In dry soil, Texas. Summer. 



