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ovate-oblong (2 lines long) : ovules 10 to 18. — L. Spec. i. 147 (not of Syst. Veg., where it is 

 confounded with L. ciUata, L.) ; Lam. 111. t. 101, f. 2. L. lutea, See, Pluk. Amalth. t. i^^, 

 f. 3. L. punctata, \\'alt. L. fdrsuia, Miehx. — Sandy or gravelly soil, Xew Brunswick and 

 Canada to \Msconsin and Georgia. 

 L. asperulsefolia, Poir. A foot or more high, mostly glabrous : leaves in whorls of 3 

 or i, or some opposite, ovate-lanceolate from a broad closely sessile base, o-.j-ribbed, glau- 

 cous beneath, an inch or so in length ; the upper reduced to bracts of a small leafy-bracted 

 raceme : pedicels not longer than the flowers : divisions of the corolla lanceolate, 3 or i 

 lines long. — Diet. Siippl. iii. 477 (wrongly said to come from Egypt) : Duby in DC. I.e. 

 L. Herbemonti, Ell. Sk. i. 2.'32 ; Chapm. 1. c. — Pine woods, X. Carolina to Genrgia. 



' L. stricta, Ait. A foot or two high, glabrous, soon branched, very leafy ; the axils 

 bearing fascicles of small leaves or sometimes torose bulblets : leaves opposite and occa- 

 sionally alternate, lanceolate, acute at both ends, nearly veinless ; the upper mostly 

 abruptly reduced to linear or subulate bracts of a long and closely many-flowered virgate 

 raceme : pedicels filiform, longer than the flowers : divisions of the corolla lanceolate or 

 oblong, 3 lines long. — Hort. Kew. ed. 1, i. 199. L. vulgaris, Walt. Car. 02. L. racemnsn, 

 Lam. ; Jliehx. Fl. i. 128. L. bulbifira. Curt. Bot. JIag. t. 104. Viscum temstre, L. Spec. 

 ii. 1023, bulbiferous and flowerless. — Wet ground, Newfoundland to .Saskatchewan and 

 Upper Georgia. 



I I — Var. producta, Gray, with a long and loose foliaceous-bracted raceme, gradually 

 passing into ordinary leaves subtending filiform pedicels : flowers rather larger. — L.race- 

 mosa, Jlichx. 1. e. (herb.), in part. — Xew York and Micliigan. 



Var. angustifolia, Chapm. Leaves all narrowly lanceolate and linear, a line or 



two broad : raceme rather few flowered. — L. angustifolia, Jlichx. 1. c. L. Loomisii, Torr. in 

 Croom, Cat. PI. Xewbern, 46. — Low country, X. Carolina to Georgia. 



* * * Flowei-s (rather large), solit.iiy in the axils of ordinary leaves: corolla not dark-dotted nor 

 streaked: fdaments shghtlv monailelphous at base. 



»,L,. xrMMUL.iRi-v, L. (MoNETWOKT.) Glabrous : stems prostrate and creeping: leaves 

 orbicular, short-petiolcfd : sepals cordate-ovate, valvate and reduplicate in the bud, nearly 

 equalling the corolla. Spiiringl}' naturaUzed, escaped from gardens into moist grounds 



in X". Atlantic States. (Eu.) 



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§ 2. Xaumb6"RGIA. Corolla with hardly any tuhe deeply -5- (or even 6-7-) 

 parted into linear divisions (liL,'ht ^-ellow and somewhat purplish-dotted), and with 

 a small tooth interposed in each sinus : filaments distinct, slender, equal : leaves 

 opposite, those at the base of the stem reduced to scales. — Xaumhurgia, Moench. 

 Tliyrsaiithus, Schrank. 



L. thyrsiflora, L. Glabrous or becoming so: stem a foot or two high from a slender 

 rootstock, naked below : leaves lanceolate, sessile : peduncles only from 2 or 3 pairs of 

 lower axils, much shorter than the leaf, bearing several or numerous small flowers in a 

 dense head or oblong spike: capsule glandular-dotted, few-seeded. — Engl. Bot. t. 176; 

 Fl. Dan. t. 517. L. capitata, Pursh, Fl. i. 13.5. — Wet bogs, I'ennsylvania to Canada and 

 northward, thence west to Oregon and Alaska. (Eu. to Japan.) 



9. GLAXTX, Tourn. Sea-Milkwort. (From yhcv/.o^, sea-green.) — Single 

 species. Flowers dimorphous as to reciprocal length of filaments and style. 



^ G. maritima, L. A somewhat succulent little herb, glabrous and glaucous or pale, 

 perennial by slender running rootstocks : stems a span or less high, erect or spreading, 

 very leafv" : leaves from oval to oblong-linear, a quarter to half inch lontr. entire, sessile : 

 caly.x-Iobes oval, purphsh or white. — Salt marshes along both sea-coasts, from Xew Eng- 

 land and from California northward; also in the interior west of the Mississippi, in sub- 

 saline soil : fl. summer. (Eu., Asia.) 



10. ANAG-ALLIS, Tourn. Pimpernel. (Ancient Greek name, prob- 

 ably from «)'«, again, and ayd/./.co, to delight in.) — Low herli?. mainly annuals 

 and of the Old "World, one indigenous to Chili, one widely naturalized round the 



