82 COMMON CANADIAN WILD PLANTS. 



raceine or spihe. Stamens and style deflexed. Stigma of 4 

 long lobes.— Newly-cleared land. 

 Var. eaneseens, Wood, has white flowers and silvery pods. 



2. E. hirsu'tum, L., is found alDOTit Niagara Tails. The 

 stem is tall, erect, and densely soft-hairy, with opposite 

 lance-oblong leaves. Flowers smaller than in No. 1, rose- 

 purple, forming a leafy short raceme. Stamens and style 

 erect. 



3. E. panieula'tum, Nutt. Glabrous, or pubescent 

 above. Stem varying from 1 to 10 feet high, branching 

 above. Leaves narrowly linear, mostly alternate and fasci- 

 cled. Flowers few, small, terminating the spreading slender 

 and almost leafless branches. Stamens and style erect. 

 Stigma club-shaped. — Colpoy's Bay, Lake Huron ; and N.W. 



4. E. linea're, Muhl. {E. palustre, L. , var. lineare, Gray.) 

 Stem 1-2 feet high, erect, slender, branching above, hoary- 

 pubescent. Leaves linear-lanceolate, nearly entire. Flowers 

 small, corymbeA at the ends of the branches, purplish or 

 white. Petals erect. Stigma club-shaped. — Bogs. 



5. E. Strietum, Muhl., (J5. molle, Torr.) is occasionally 

 met with. It differs from No. 4 chiefly in having the leaves 

 crowded, broader, and their points more obtuse. The petals 

 are rose-coloured. — Bogs. 



6. E. palustre, L. stem low, slender, and simple (about 

 a foot high), finely pubescent. Leaves erect or ascending, 

 sessile, linear to linear-lanceolate, obtuse, with revolute 

 margins. Seeds roughened with points. — Atl. seacoast and 

 N.W. 



7. E. eolora'tum, Muhl. Stem 1-2 feet high, nearly 

 smooth, but with 2-4 hairy lines decurrent from the leaves, 

 the latter lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, serrate, with conspic- 

 uous petioles. Flowers small, more or less nodding, 

 corymbed. Petals pale, deeply notched. Coma of the seed 

 brownish. — Not so common as the next. 



8. E. adenoeau'lon, Haussk. More glandular-pubescent 

 ihan the last. Leaves abruptly contracted into short 



