CI8TACEAE 27 



Perennial. Stem 6 to 12 or 18 inches high, slender, rigid, pubescent. Leavet 

 alternate, about an inch long, elliptic-lanceolate. Flowers terminal, corymbose, 

 with large yellow petals, or apetalous, and crowded on short leafy lateral branches. 

 Bob. Dry, slaty and rocky hills : not common. Fl. June. Fr. July. 



Obs. This plant is very variable in habit. It has received the 

 name of Frost-weed, from the circumstance of ice-chrystals shooting 

 from the base of the stem, in freezing weather. The same phenom- 

 enon is often beautifully exhibited in the Cunila Mariana, or Dit- 

 tany. 



46. UECIIE'A, L. 



[Named in honor of John Leche,& Swedish Botanist.] 



Petals 3, narrow, not longer than the sepals, marcescent. Stamens 

 3 to 12. Stigmas plumose-fimbriate. Capsule 3-valved, few-seeded. 

 Suffruticose perennials. 



1. L,. iiiiijor, MX. Hairy; leaves elliptic, mucronate; flowers 

 crowded in paniculate clusters. 



L. villosa. Ell. $ Fl. Cestr. ed. 2. p. 96. 

 GREATER LECHEA. 



Stem 1 to 2 feet high, often with radical prostrate branches; the young branches 

 villous with long whitish hairs. Leaves about an inch long. Panicle leafy; 

 flowers inconspicuous, brown. 

 Hob. Woodlands, on slaty hills : not common. Fl. Aug. Fr. Sept. 



2, Jit. minor, Lam. Pubescent; leaves lance-linear, acute; 

 flowers loosely racemose on slender branches. 



SMALLER LECHEA. Pin-weed. 



Stem 9 to 15 inches high, often decumbent at base. Leaves nearly an inch long, 

 alternate, narrow. Panicle rather large and diffuse. Flowers larger than in the 

 preceding species, brown. 

 Hub. Dry, sandy banks : frequent Fl. Aug. Fr. Sept 



Obs. There is a variety (if not more distinct), which is apparently 

 intermediate between the two preceding species, with the leaves on 

 the stem ternate, or nearly verticillate in threes, and the branches 

 quite leafy. 



ORDER XIV. DROSERACEAE. 



Bog-herbs; mostly glandular-pilose: leaves radical, circinate, scarcely stipulate; 

 flowers regular, hypogynous, pentamerous, the parts all marcescent; capsule. 

 1-celled ; styles, or stigmas, twice as many as the parietal placentae ; seeds numer- 

 ous; embryo at the base of the albumen. 



4?. 



[Gr. droseros, dewy ; from the appearance of the leaves.] 



Calyx imbricated. Petals convolute. Stamens alternate with the 

 petals. Styles 3 or 5, deeply 2-parted. Capsule globose, or oblong, 

 3- or 5-valved. 



1. D, rot uiul ifYilisi, L. Leaves spatulate-orbicular, abruptly 

 narrowed to hairy petioles ; seeds loosely arillate. 

 ROUND-LEAVED DROSERA. Sun-dew. 



Stemless. Perennial? Leaves about half an inch long, on pdiotes 1 to 2 inches 

 long, fringed with purple hairs which exsude a clear fluid at apex. Scape* 4 to 6 



