32 MINNESOTA BOTANICAL STUDIES. 



Lechea stricta Leggett ; Britton, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, 

 21 : 251. 1894. 



The Illustrated Flora gives the range of this species as 

 "Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa." It has also been collected at 

 several localities in Minnesota. We have two specimens col- 

 lected by J. H. Sandberg, one at Sandy Lake, August, 1891, 

 labeled '•'■Lechea minor^''' the other at Centreville, July 30, 

 \'^<^\^\2\i€\.^di '•'■ Lechea Leggettii.'" There is also a specimen 

 collected at Zumbrota, August, 1892, by C. A. Ballard, labelled 

 " Lechea Leggcttii,^'' and one collected by Miss Jennie E. Camp- 

 bell, at Rockville, July, 1896. E. P. Sheldon also collected it 

 at St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin, September, 1892. 



The type of this species was presumably collected by Mr. 

 M. S. Bebb, as we have a specimen from his collection, with 

 the record : ^^ Lechea sfrz'cta, 'Leggett ms. . . . Fountaindale, 

 Winnebago County, Illinois, 1879." -^7 referring to the Bo- 

 tanical Gazette, 15 : 308. 1890, I find that the species was re- 

 ported from Minnesota, previous to its publication, by E. J. 

 Hill, who says: "The only Lechea seen was one called by 

 Mr. W. H. Leggett, who has given special attention to these 

 plants, L. minor Lam. var stricta. It grows on sandy hills, 

 especially those thinly covered with Pinus Banksiana and P. 

 resitiosa, where the ground is not too much shaded, and on 

 rocky hills and ledges with a thin covering of soil, on top of 

 w^hich, Jasper Peak, the highest point in the vicinity of Tower, 

 I find it common." 



