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ROCK-ROSE FAMILY. 



Beach 



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4. Lechea maritima Leggett. 

 Pin-weed. (Fig. 2478.) 



Lechea thymifolia Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 91. 1814. 



Not Michx. 1803. 



L. maritima Leggett in Britt. Prel.Cat. N.Y.i^. 1881. 

 L. minorvar. maritima A. Gray, Man. Ed. 6, 77. 1890. 



Densely tufted, branching from the base, stout, 

 rigid, 6 / -io / high, tomentose-canescent with 

 whitish hairs. Primary branches spreading or 

 ascending, numerous; flowering branches slen- 

 der, stiff, divergent, elongated; leaves of the stem 

 linear or linear-oblong, blunt or acute, 4 / '-io // 

 long, i // -2 // wide; leaves of the basal shoots 

 oblong or ovate-oblong, mainly acute, 3 // -4 // 

 long, i W~2" wide, densely canesceut; pedicels 

 Yz fr long; flowers numerous, clustered; petals 

 reddish; outer sepals shorter than the inner; 

 pod globose, y 2 ff in diameter. 



Sands of the seashore and in sandy pine-barrens, 

 Massachusetts to Virginia, and Georgia (according 

 to S. Watson). Also at the Crawford Notch, White 

 Mts., N. H. 



6. Lechea Leggettii Britt. & Holl. 

 Leggett' s Pin- weed. (Fig. 2480.) 



Lechea minor Lam. Tabl. Encycl. pi. 52, f. i. 



1791 ? Not L. 1753. 

 Lechea Leggettii Britt. & Holl. Prel. Cat. N. Y. 



6. 1888. 



Erect, rather slender, freely branching, 

 more or less strigose-pubescent, io'-2 high. 

 Branches slender, spreading or ascending; 

 leaves of the stem linear or linear-oblong, 

 acute or obtuse, 5 // -i2 // long, l /i /f -\ f ' wide, 

 sessile or nearly so; leaves of the basal shoots 

 oblong-linear, 2"-$" long, %" wide, acute; 

 panicle open, its branches slender and diver- 

 gent; inflorescence somewhat secund; pedi- 

 cels yt"-\" long; outer sepals nearly equal- 

 ling the inner; capsule obovoid, y" in 

 diameter. 



In dry open places, Long Island, N. Y., to In- 

 diana, south to North Carolina. Leaves of the 

 basal shoots full-grown in November. Petals 

 brownish purple. July-Aug. 



5. Lechea tenuifolia Michx. Nar- 

 row-leaved Pin-weed. (Fig. 2479.) 



Lechea tenuifolia Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i: 77. 



1803. 



Densely tufted, stems erect, slender, 4'- 

 10' high, divaricately branched above, mi- 

 nutely strigose-pubescent. Branches slen- 

 der, elongated; leaves of the stem narrowly 

 linear, or sometimes nearly filiform, 2 // -7 // 

 long, l / 2 ff wide or less, acute, sessile, or very 

 nearly so; leaves of the basal shoots linear, 

 sessile, 3 // -4 // long, about y 2 " wide; pedicels 

 i" long; flowers more or less secund, con- 

 spicuously bracted by the upper leaves; 

 outer sepals equalling or exceeding the inner; 

 pod globose-oval, W in diameter, or slightly 

 more. 



In dry open places, eastern Massachusetts to 

 Wisconsin, south to Florida and Texas. Petals 

 red-purple. July-Aug. 



