276 SAPODILLA FAMILY. 



■t- -1- Flowers in a terminal spike-like racemr ; the corolla, hlarkish- 

 streaked. 



L. stricta. Ait. Common X. and 8. in boi:;.s ; smooth, very leafj-, 

 branching, vvitli mo.stly opposite lanceolate, sessile, dark-dotted leaves 

 tapering to each end ; flowers on slender pedicels in a terminal long 

 raceme leafy at base, unequal filaments monadelphous, and lance-oblong 

 corolla lobes. 



^- -t- -»- Flii}i-{'rs on shnidcr prihnirlps from flie tiyil.s of the tipper leaves ; 

 the corolla dark-streaked. 



L. quadrif6lia, Linn. Sandy moist ground ; rather hairy, with ovate- 

 lanceolate sessile leaves, 4 (or o-6) in a whorl, and ovate-oblong corolla 

 lobes. 



-1- H- H- H- Flowers in axillarn s/iike-like short clusters,- the corolla 

 purplish-dotted. 



L. thyrsifl6ra, Linn. Wet swamps, N. ; smooth, with simple stem, 

 leafless at base, above with lanceolate sessile leaves, in the axils of 1 or 

 2 of them a short-peduncled oblong spike or cluster of small flowers, 

 having slender filaments and lance-linear mostly separate petals, and as 

 many little teeth between them. 



* * Plant trailing. 

 L. nummularia, Linn. Moxey'vvort. Creeping in damp garden grounds, 

 or running wild sometimes; smooth, with opposite small round leaves, 

 and solitary pretty yellow flowers in their axils on short peduncles. 

 (Lessons, Fig. 199.)' 



8. ANAGALLIS, PIMPERNEL. (Old Greek name, meaning f?e/iyi«- 

 /mZ.) Low herbs of the Old World, flowering all summer. 



A. arvensis, Linn. Commox P. or Poor Man's Wkather Glass. 



The small (red, purple, or white) flowers said to close at the approach of 

 rain ; in gardens and running wild in sandy fields ; spreading on the 

 ground, with pale ovate leaves, shorter than the peduncles, and rounded 

 petals fringed with minute glandular teeth. 



A. c.KRfjLEA of the gardens is a tender, mostly larger form of the pre- 

 ceding, with larger blue flowers. 



9. SAMOLUS, WATER PIMPERNEL, BROOKWEED. (Old name, 

 of unknnwn meaning.) Flowers late summer. 2i 



S. Valerandi, Linn., var. Americanus, Gray. Along rills and wet 

 places ; spreading, (J'-IO' high, with obovate leaves, and very small flowers 

 on slender pedicels, which bear a bractlet at the middle, but no bract at 

 base. 



LXVIII. SAPOTACE^, SAPODILLA FAMILY. 



Mainly tropical trees or shrubs, with hard wood. Simple 

 and entire alternate leaves, mostly with milky juice, small and 

 perfect regular flowers, anthei-s turned outwards, erect ovules, 

 and bony-coated seeds. Represented S. by a few species of 



1. BUMELIA. (Ancient name of an Ash.) Flowers small, white, or 

 whitish, in clusters in the axils of the leaves ; calyx 5-parted ; corolla 

 5-cleft, and with a pair of internal appendages between the lobes, 5 



