280 " PRIMULACEiE. (PRIMROSE rAMILY.) 



2. LTSIMACHIA, L. Loosestkifk. 



Calyx 5-parted. Corolla wheel-shaped, 5-lobed. Stamens 5 ; the filamcnta 

 often monadclphous at the base, and commonly with the rudiment of a sterile 

 one interposed. Style slender. Capsule globose, 5-10-valvcd, few -many- 

 seeded. Seeds amphitropous. — Perennial herbs, with entire opposite or whorled 

 leaves, and axillary or racemose yellow flowers. 



* Flowers in terminal racemes or panicles. 



1 . L. Stricta, Ait. Stem smooth, erect, branching ; leaves very numerous, 

 opposite, dotted, lanceolate, acute at each end ; racemes long, leafy at the base ; 

 pedicels slender; lobes of the corolla lanceolate-oblong, obtuse, entire, marked 

 with dark lines ; filaments monadelphous, unequal ; sterile ones none ; capsule 

 .5-valvcd, 3-5-seeded. — Var. angustifolia. Leaves linear-lanceolate, obtuse; 

 lobes of the corolla lanceolate, acute. (L. angustifolia, Michx. L. Loomisii, 

 TbiT., corolla-lobes broader.) — Low ground in the middle and upper districts. 

 July. — Stem 1° - 2° high. Leaves 2' long. Tlowers small. 



2. L. Fraseri, Duby. Stem glandular-pubescent at the summit, erect; 

 leaves opposite, ovate or cordate-ovate, acuminate, narrowed into a short petiole ; 

 flowers in a leafless panicle ; calyx bell-shaped, the lobes fringed on the mar- 

 gins ; lobes of the corolla ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, entire ; filaments monadel- 

 phous, unequal ; sterile ones none. — South Carolina. Fraser. (*) 



3. Ii. Herbernonti, Ell. Stem erect, smooth, simple ; leaves (and flow- 

 ers) four in a whorl, ovate-lanceolate, sessile, dotted ; flowers racemose, or. short 

 pedicels, the upper ones scattered ; lobes of the corolla oblong-lanceolate, dotted ; 

 filaments monadelphous at the base. (L. asperulaefolia, Poir ?) — Near Colum- 

 bia, South Carolina, Elliott. North Carolina, Curtis, Croom. — Stem 2° high. 

 Leaves faintly 3 - 5-nerved. 



* * Flowers axillary. 



4. L. quadrifolia, L. Stem pubescent, simple ; leaves 4-5 in a whorl, 

 ovate-lanceolate, acute, dotted, sessile; peduncles filiform ; lobes of the corolla 

 ovate-oblong, dotted, filaments monadelphous. — Shady woods in the upper dis. 

 tricts, and northward. July. — Stem 2° high. 



.5. Ii. ciliata, L. Stem mostly branching, smooth ; leaves opposite, lance- 

 olate-ovate, acute, cordate or rounded at the base, on ciliate petioles ; corolla 

 longer than the calyx, with broadly ovate or roundish denticulate lobes ; pedun- 

 cles opposite. — Varies (L. hybrida, Michx.) with the leaves lanceolate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, narrowed into a short petiole; the uppermost, like the peduncles, 

 often whorled ; or (L. heterophylla, Michx.) with the lowest leaves obovate, the 

 others long, lanceolate; or (L. angustifolia. Lam.) with linear nearly sessile 

 leaves, and a more slender stem, and smaller flowers. — Woods and thickets, 

 chiefly in the upper districts, Mississippi, and northward. July and Aug. — 

 Stem 1 ° - 2° high. Leaves 2' - i' long. 



6. Ii. radicans, Hook. Smooth throughout ; stem long, prostrate ; the 

 slender branches often rooting at the apex; leaves opposite, ovate-lanceolate, 

 acute, on long and slender petioles; peduncles longer than the leaves; corolla 



