[Reprinted from Torreya, Vol. 19, No. 8, August, 1919.] 



SCROPHULARIACEAE OF THE LOCAL FLORA. II 



By Francis W. Pennell 



5. LlMOSELLA L. Sp. PI. 631. 1753. 



Type species, L. aquatica L., of Europe. 



1. Limosella subulata Ives in Trans. Phys. Med. Soc. N. Y. 

 1:440. 1817. "First observed in 1 8 16. . . It flourishes 

 in great abundance in the Housatonic, and in most of 

 the rivers which empty into Long Island Sound, within 

 the range of the tide." 

 Ygramela (or Limosella) maritima Raf. Atl. Journ. 199. 

 1833. " Discovered this year in the wet sand of the sea 

 islands of New Jersey." As a new genus, this was based 

 upon specimens the flowers of which bore but two stamens. 

 Certainly an abnormal form, as the plant of such situa- 

 tions has normally four stamens. 

 Flowering from late August to November, and soon ripening 

 fruit. 



Tide-water river-beaches, saline, brackish or fresh, and about 

 borders of ponds, brackish or fresh, along the coast. Margins 

 of ponds back of sand-dunes, growing inundated or somewhat 

 emersed on the sandy coastward margin of these, Long Island 

 and southward to Ocean County, New Jersey; on the sandy or 

 gravelly flats between high and low tide, along the Housatonic, 

 Hudson, Passaic, Delaware, and doubtless other rivers. The 

 plants of the two environments differ slightly, as has been indi- 

 cated in Torreya 19: 51. 191 9. This species ranges from 

 Labrador to Maryland. 



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