90 TRIANDUIA. TRIGYNIA. 



125. MOLLUGO. L. 



Calix 5-leaved, coloured inside. Corolla 0. 

 Capsule 3-celled, 3-vaIved. 



Leaves mosUy verticillate; flowers axillary and ter- 

 Jininal. 



Species. 1. M. verticillata. A ^enus consisting of 6 

 species, inhabiting India, Africa, and America. 



126. LECHEA. Kalm. L. 



Calix 3-leaved. Petals 3, linear. Styles 0, 

 sti.^mataS, plumose. Capsule 3-celled, 3-valved, 

 with as many other interior valves. Seeds 1 in 

 each cell. 



Herbaceous or sufFruticose plants, with the habit of 

 Linum; leaves alternate or opposite; peduncles many-flow- 

 ered, either axillary or in terminal panicles. Stamens 

 sometimes 4 or 5, 



Species. 1. L. villoma (L. major, Mich.) 2. mijior. 

 3. racemulosa. 4. thymifolia. 5. tenuifoUa. 



An American genus, with the exception of the L. ver- 

 cillata of India. 



127. ERIOCAULON. L. (Pipe-wort.) 



Common calix many-leaved, many-flowered; 

 proper calix superior of 2 or 3 leaves. — Malt 

 flowers central. Corolla monopetalous, cloven. 

 "-^Female flowers marginal; corolla of 2 petals. 

 Stigmas 2 or 3. Capsule of 2 or 3 cells, cells 

 1-seeded. 



Scapes angular, sheathed at the base; leaves radical * 

 gramineous; flowers imbricated in an hemispherical capi- 

 tulum within a common calix, (as in Syngenesious plants)* 

 the central flowers masculine, marginal feminine. 



Species. 1. E. decangulare. % gnaphalodes. 3. pellu- 

 cidum. 4. villosum. S.Jiavididum. 



A genus confined to India, Australasia, South and North 

 America. Tiiere is also 1 species in Europe. Mr. R. Brown 

 has ascertained about 30 species of tliis genus, many 

 which are indigenous to New Holland. 



