Lcchea. CIS'l'ACK,!:. 103 



hoary with ajiprcssed {luhcsccnce ; cauliiio leaves puheruleiil or ghihrous, linear to liuoar- 

 obloiig, 4 to 8 lines long, J to 1 i lines l)nia(i : pani.le l.ri»a<l. <lense, pyrami.lal : liowers ri-.l- 

 dish (at leiuit in fading) ; calyx canescent; outer sepals nearly e<iiialiiii;,' or distinctly shorter 

 than the inner: capsule glohoso, al)out half line in diameter. — Loggeit in Urittoti' Prelim. 

 Cat. N. J. 13, & Bull. Terr. Cluh, xxi. 249. L. llu/mifolia, I'ursh, Fl. i. 91 ; Gray, Ucn. 111. 

 i. 206, t. 88. L. minor, var. murilima. Gray, nis. Syn. Fl., & Man. cd. G, 77. — Sand v wjil 

 along and near the coast, Maine, /Hide, Fernatd, to Georgia, and (ace. to IJritton) appar- 

 ently in White Mountains at Crawford ^'otch. 



-t— -1— Leaves of the sterile hasal shoots relatively narrower, linear, linear lanceolate, or 

 ohlong-liuear, the edges usually revolute: outer sepals not exceeding the inner (except in 

 fj. teiiiii/olia). 

 ++ Fruiting calyx glohular or broadly ovoid, and with the nearly globose capsule mostly 



rather large for the genus. 

 = Inflorescence an elongated and usually narrow panicle, with short ascending branches. 



L.* stricta, Legcett. Appressed silky-pubescent and canescent : stems strict, a foot or more 

 in heiglit, very leafy : leaves and short branches ascending or often appressed, almost linear, 

 4 to 10 lines long; those of the sterile shoots only 2 or 3 lines in length : capsule globose, 

 light brown, less than a line in diameter. — Leggett in Britton, 1. c. 251. L. minor, forma 

 stricta, Gray, ms. Syn. Fl. — Prairies of Illinois, V^usei/, Bebh ; Iowa and Wisconsin (ace. to 

 Britton); Miimesota (ace. to E. J. Hill) and (?) to Belleville, Canada, Mmuun. A well 

 marked inland type but more doubtful in its ea.stern extension. Nearly related forms from 

 Maine, Fcrnald, are probably better referred to the following. 



L.* intermedia, Leggktt. Usually about a foot and a half high, not cane.scent nor silky- 

 villuus hnt finely strigose-pubescent : stem leaves narrowly oblong, acute or acutish at iioth 

 ends, 6 to 12 lines long, ^ to 1^ lines broad: elongated panicle rather dense: capsule glo- 

 bose, a line or more in diameter, larger than in the related species. — Leggett in Britton, 

 1. c. 252. ? L. minor, Pursh, Fl. i. 91 ;? Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. i. 72 ; Gray, ms. Syn. FL, & Man. 

 ed. 6, 77, in part; not Linn, nor Walt, nor Lam. — Dry rocky soil, very common from New 

 Brunswick and Canada to Pennsylvania. 



= = Inflorescence much broader, pyramidal or subcorymbose : brandies slender and deli- 

 cate, widely spreading. 



L.* Leggettii, Britton & Hollick. Ten inches to a foot and a half high, slender, finely 

 strigose pubescent or glabrate: cauline leaves linear, 5 to 10 lines long, usually acute at both 

 ends; those of the sterile shoots linear to oblong-linear, 2 or 3 lines long, scarcely over half a 

 line wide : panicle diffuse, flowers mo.stly terminal and subterminal or shortly racemose at 

 the ends of the slender branches: capsule obovoid, three f.jurths liue in diameter: outer 

 sepals shorter than or barely e(iualling the inner, the latter (at least in some c.ises) indis- 

 tinctly 3-nerved. — Torr. Club, Prelim. Cat. N. V. 6 ; Britton, Bull. Torr. Club, xxi. 2."»l. 

 L. Leggettii, var. puhheUa, Britton & Hollick, 1. c. Lamarck's A. minor, placed here by 

 Britton, is a very poor and dubious sketch. — Dry soil. Long Isl.and and New .Jersey to \'ir- 

 ginia and (ace. to Britton) west to Indiana. Distinguished from the following in its sepals, 

 taller liabit, and less distinctly racemose inflorescence. 



L. tenuifolia, Miciix. Low, diffuse, .slender, minutely .appre.<wcd-pubescent or glabrous, 

 or the cespitose radical shoots more pubescent : leaves all small and narrow ; of the radical 

 shoots 2 lines long not half a line wide ; cauline filiform-linear and in the diffuse racemose- 

 paniculate inflorescence reduced to small subulate bracts: flowers mostly very sliort-pe<li- 

 celled : sepals wholly destitute of lateral ribs: capsule ovoid-globose. — Fl. i. 77; Ihirsh, 

 Fl. i. 91 ; Ell. Sk. i. 185 L. minor, vars. /3 & 7. Torr. & tJray, Fl. i. 154. /.. lf„si„i,{tj, 

 Spach in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 285. — Dry and .«terile, soil, especially in pine barren.^, 

 E. Massachusetts to Florida, Texa.s, Arkansas, and Illinois.' (Cuba ) 



■H- ++ Smaller-flowered: fruiting cilyx narrower : capsule elli|>soidal. 



L. racemulosa. Lam. Erect, a foot or less high, with some soft silky puliescenc^ when 



young, soon nearly glabrous except the radical shoots: leaves less rigiil, bm.od for I be 



section, mucronate ; those of the radical shoots hirsutely pnl>escent when young, narrowly 



oblong, 2 or 3 lines long; c.iuline oblong linear, 4 to 6 lines long, of the bninchlets n.arn>wly 



1 Nortbw.-st to Wix.'onsin, ;iec. to Rrittnn, 1. c. 2.^0. 



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