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•white or purplish flowers solitary in the axils of some of the middle leaves (usu- 

 ally one axil florilcroiis, that of the other Iciif stirik-j. (Name formed of fiiKpos, 

 siiutU, and audfiiov, Jloiver.) — The section IIesiiAntiius (Irom rjfii, ha fj, and 

 tivOos, Jidiccr) includes the species like ours, of which there are several dis- 

 covereil by C. Wri;,'ht in Culm, havin;; the upper lip of the corolla very short 

 or obsolete, and mostly slender or subulate stij^^uias. 



1. M. Nutt^Uii. (Ilcmiantlnis micranthcmoidcs, Nittt.) Branches as- 

 cendiuj;, \' -'2' high; leaves obovate-spatulatc or oval; peduncles at length 

 recurved, about the length of the calyx, which is bell-shaped, 4-toothed and 

 usually split down on one side, in fruit becoming pear-shaped ; middle lobe of 

 the corolla linear-oblong, nearly twice the length of the lateral ones ; appen- 

 dage of the stamens nearly as long as the filament itself; stigmas subulate. — 

 Tidal muddy bands of the Delaware River, and southward. Aug. -Oct. 



14. LIMOSELLA, L. Mldwort. 



Calyx bell-shaped, 5-toothed. Corolla short, widely bell-shaped, 5-cleft, nearly 

 regular. Stamens 4 : anthers contluently 1-eelled. Style short, club-shaped. 

 Pod globular, many-seeded; the partition thin and vanishing. — Small annuals, 

 growing in mud, usually near the sea-shore, creeping by slender runners, with- 

 out ascending stems ; t!;e entire fleshy leaves in dense clusters around the simple 

 1-flowered peduncles. Flowers small, white or purplish. (Name a diuiiimtive 

 oi limns, mud, in which these little plants delight to grow.) 



1. L. aqu^tica, L. : var. tenuifblia, llort'm. Leaves (with no blade 

 distinct from tlie petiole) awl-shaped or thread-form. (L. tenuifolia, Nittt. L. 

 subulata. Ices.) — In brackish tidal mud, from New Jersey northward. Aug., 

 Sept. —riant r-2' high. (Eu.) 



15. SYNTHYRIS, Benth. Syntiivius. 



Calyx 4-parted. Corolla somewhat bell-shaped, variously 2 -4-lobcd or cleft. 

 Stamens 2, inserted just below the sinuses on each side of the upper lobe of the 

 corolla, occasionally with another pair from the other sinuses, exserted : anther- 

 eeils not confluent into one. Style slender : stigma simple. Pod flattened, 

 rounded, obtuse or notched, 2-grooved. 2-cclled (rarely .3-lobed and .3-celled), 

 many-seeded, loculicidal ; the valves cohering below with the columella. — Per- 

 ennial herbs, with the simple scape-like stems beset with partly-clasping braet- 

 like alternate leaves, the root-leaves rounded and ))etioled, crenate. Flowers 

 in a raceme or sjjike, with bracted jjcdicels. (Name composed of avv, tofjfther, 

 and Ovpis. a lit//,- thmr : evidently in allusion to the closed valves of the pod.) 



1. S. Houghtoniina, Benth. Hairy; root-leaves round-ovate, heart- 

 shaped; raceme spiked, dense (.">'- 12'); corolla not longer than the calyx, 

 usually 2-.3-parted. — High prairies and hills. Wisconsin, //wyA/o", /v//>A<imi. 

 Michigan, Wrif/ht. Illinois, Mcdd. May. — Corolla grceni>h-white, for tlie 

 most part deeply 2-parted, with the ujjper lip entire, a little hunger and narrower 

 than the lower, which is .3-toothed ; but occasionally 3-tiarled, with the ujiper 

 lip notched or 2-lobed. When there are 4 stameus the lower aie later than 

 the others- 



