194 CISTACEiE. Lechea. 



Unear : inflorescence loosely racemose-paaiculate, effuse ; the pedicels commonly slender and 

 spreading: fruiting calyx obovoid-oblong, glabrous. — III. ii. 423, t. 28!, f. 3; I'oir. Suppl. 

 iii. 340 (describing more pubescent form tliau usual); Michx. FI. i. 7V. — Dry and rocky 

 soil, Long Island, N. Y.,* to Florida and Kentucky. 



L. patula Lkguktt. About a foot bigli, very copiously and effusely branched, appressed- 

 pubescent and glabrate : branches filiform : leaves of radical shoots not seen ; cauline linear 

 or lower ublong-linear,'2 or 3 lines long, of branchlets subulate : flowers racemo.se paniculate, 

 short-pedicelled : calyx glabrate, rather shorter than tlie narrowly ellipsoid capsule. — Bull. 

 Torr. Club, vi. 251 ; Curtiss, distr. N. Am. PI. 231**. — Dry pine barrens, S. Carolina to 

 Florida, Raienet, Curtiss. 



L. Torreyi, Leggett. Erect and sK 'er, 2 feet high, with ascending branches, cinereous- 

 puberuleut or sparsely pubescent : leave ' radical shoots unknown ; cauline narrowly linear, 

 3 to 6 lines long, alternate, ascending, uppermost reduced to minute bracts of the racemi- 

 form branches of tlie loose panicles : pedicels short : calyx externally canescent, little over 

 lialf line long : inmiature capsules oval aud triangular.— Leggett in Wats. Bibl. Index, 81. 

 L. race mulosa, Rook. Jour. Bot. i. 193, not Lam. —Bine barrens of Florida,^ Drummond, 

 Chapman, Torrey jide Leggett. 

 § 2. Lechidium, Torr. «fe Gray. Inflorescence at length racemiform and se- 



cund (pedicels distant from the bracts) : placentae firm and thick, at length crus- 



taceous, plane, in dehiscence bearing on their back the firm dissepiments, which 



separate from the valves: apparently no radical depressed leafy branches. — Fl. 



i. 154. Lechidium, Spach in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 286. 



L. Drummondii, Torr. & Gray, a span to a foot high, with many slender stems from a 

 somewhat li<,Micscent base (or root possibly lignescent-annual), cinereous-puberulent, diffusely 

 branched : Feaves all very narrow- or filiform-linear, the larger half inch long : fructiferous 

 pedicels slender, spreading or decurved : calyx and enclosed capsule globose. — Fl. i. 154; 

 Gray, Gen. 111. i. 206, t. 89 ; not Spach. Lechidium Drummondii, Spach in Ilook. Comp. Bot. 

 Mag.'ii. 287, & Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 2, vi. 372. Linum San Sabeanum, Buckley, Proc. Acad. 

 Philad. 1861, 450. — Sandy woods, Texas, Berlandier, Drummond, Wright, Hall, Reverchon. 

 Reported from Kansas by Dr. Oyster. 



Order XIV. VIOLACE^. 



By a. Gray. 



Herbs (except in the tropics), with watery juice, somewhat acrid, alternate 

 (rarely opposite) and simple stipulate leaves, and axillary inflorescence. Flowers 

 hermaphrodite, irregular but symmetrical and 5-merous throughout, except that 

 the carpels of the one-celled pistil are three instead of five. Sepals nearly alike, 

 and persistent. Petals imbricated in the bud and the lower one different from the 

 others. Stamens 5, with very short filaments or none, but broad connectives at 

 top projecting beyond the adnate-introrse two-celled connivent or connate anthers. 

 A single more or less club-shaped style and a single stigma. The three few-many- 

 ovulate placentae of the ovary parietal. Fruit a 3-valved capsule, with valves 

 placentiferous in the middle. Seeds rather large, firm-coated, anatropous, having 

 a large and straight embryo with broad and flat cotyledons nearly the length of 

 the fleshy albumen. Valves of the capsule in drying after dehiscence condnpli- 



1 Eastward to Martha's Vineyard, ace. to Britton, 1. c. 248. 



•2 T.. '^r.ntK rv,vni;nn ^fplHrhnrnp. and S. Virninia, ace. to A. A. Heller, Bull. Torr. Club, xxi.23. 



