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2. Lappula Texana (Scheele) Britton. 

 Hairy Stickseed. (Fig. 3022.) 



Cynoglossum pilosiim Nutt. Gen. 1. 114. 1818. Not 



R. & P. 1794. 

 E. Texanum Scheele, Linnaea, 25: 260. 1852. 

 Echinospermum Redowskii var. cupulalurn A. Gray 



in Brewer & Wats. Bot. Cal. i : 530. 1876. 

 Lappula Texana Britton, Mem. Torr. Club, 5: 273. 1894. 



Annual, similar to the preceding species, 6 / -2 

 high, paniculately branched, the branches ascend- 

 ing or erect. Leaves linear or linear-oblong, mostly 

 obtuse, the lower narrowed into petioles; racemes 

 leafy -bracted; pedicels short, not deflexed in fruit; 

 flowers about l // broad; nutlets papillose-tubercu- 

 late on the back, the margins armed with a single 

 row of flat, usually more or less confluent bristles, 

 or these united into a cup. 



In dry soil, Manitoba and the Northwest Territory to 

 British Columbia, south to Nebraska, Texas and Ari- 

 zona. Nutlets with nearly distinct bristles and others 

 with bristles united into a cup sometimes occur on the 

 same fruit. April-Aug. 



Lappula Virginiana (L.) Greene. Virginia Stickseed. (Fig. 3023.) 



-*\ JVTirncn/ic TS-i l'crill-7/7 17/7 T. .^r* PI TIT T*?c? 



Myosolis Virginiana L- Sp. PI. 131. 1753. 

 Cynoglossum Morisoni DC. Prodr. 10: 155. 1846. 

 E. Virginicum Lehm. Asperif. 120. 1818. 

 Lappula Virginiana Greene, Pittonia, 2: 182. 1891. 



Biennial, pubescent; stem paniculately branched, 

 2-4high, the branches slender, spreading. Basal 

 leaves (seldom present at flowering time) ovate or 

 nearly orbicular, cordate, long-petioled, mostly 

 obtuse; stem leaves ovate-oblong or oval, acute or 

 acuminate at the apex, narrowed to the base, 

 petioled, 3 / -8 / long, 1/-4/ wide, the uppermost 

 smaller, sessile; racemes very slender, divergent, 

 bracted at the base, the bracts similar to the upper 

 leaves; pedicels slender, short, recurved in fruit; 

 corolla nearly white, about \" broad; fruit glo- 

 bose, nearly 2" in diameter; nutlets covered on 

 the margins and usually also on the back by the 

 slender distinct flattened barbed prickles,the backs 

 commonly also more or less papillose. 



In dry woods and thickets, New Brunswick to west- 

 ern Ontario and Minnesota, Alabama, Louisiana and 

 I Nebraska. Called Beggar's-ticks or -lice. June-Sept. 



4. Lappula floribunda (Lehm.) Greene. 

 Large-flowered Stickseed. (Fig. 3024.) 



Echinospermum floribundum Lehm. in Hook. Fl. 



Bor. Am. 2: 84. pi. 164. 1834. 

 Lappula floribunda Greene, Pittonia, 2: 182. 1891. 



Biennial or perennial, rough-pubescent; 

 stem stout, paniculately branched, 2-5 high, 

 the branches nearly erect. Leaves oblong, ob- 

 long-lanceolate, or linear-lanceolate, 2 / -4 / long, 

 2 // -io // wide, sessile, acute or obtuse at the 

 apex, or the lower narrowed into petioles; ra- 

 cemes numerous, erect or nearly so, very densely 

 flowered, bracted at the base, many of them in 

 pairs; pedicels 2 // -4 // long, reflexed in fruit; 

 flowers blue, 3 // -5 // broad; fruit pyramidal, 

 about 3" broad; nutlets keeled, papillose- 

 tuberculate on the back, the margins armed 

 with a single row of flat prickles, which are 

 sometimes confluent at the base. 



Western Ontario and Minnesota to British Colum- 

 bia, south to New Mexico and California. June -Aug. 



