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fact, the plant intended in Florul. Cestrica, by the name of L. major. It is usually 

 a foot to 18 inches high —the stem erect, clothed with whitish appresscd hairs— the 

 leaves of the same elliptical form as those of L. rillosa^but n"t more than half the 

 size— those on the stem often ternate, or neat 1 y verticillate by threes— the branches 

 quite leafy. In habit, it certainly resembles L. villosa; but if only a variety, it is 

 a pretty distinct and very constant one. The true L. villosa was first collected, 

 here, by Mr. Geo. W. Hall, in 1829. 



2. L. minor, Puvsh. Stem assurgent, branched, smoothish ; leaves 

 lance-linear, acute ; panicle diffuse, leafy ; branches elongated ; flowers 

 racemose. Heck, JJot. p. 36. Not of Linn. 



Lksskr Lechea. Vuh'd — Pin weed. 



Root perennial. Ste?nd to 15 inches high, slender, frutescent, often decumbent; 

 or curved at base, branched, smoother than the preceding, the hairs closely ap- 

 pressed. Leaves nearly an inch long, alternate, narrow, lance-linear, or oblan- 

 ceolate4inear, acute, often a little falcate, sparingly pilose and ciliate, margin 

 somewhat revolute. Panicle rather large and diffuse, with minute bracts on the 

 ultimate branches. Flowers nearly twice as U rge as those ■>( the preceding spe- 

 cies, pedicellate, racemose. Sepals obovate, obtuse, 3-nerved, pilose with ap- 

 pressed hairs on the back ; bracts minute, linear. Petals obi n , m :mbranaceous, 

 brown, cohering at apex, finally detached at base, and cl »sely embracing the 

 summit of the capsule, so as readily to be confounded with it on mere inspection. 

 Capsule roundish-ovoid, orobovoid, rather lunger than the calyx. 



Hob. Dry, sandy banks ; borders of woodlands : common. Fl Aug. Fr. Sept. 



Obs. Two or three additional speciesare enumerated in the U. States. The L. 

 racemuhsa. Mx. is considered by;Professors Torrey and Booker as not specifically 

 distinct from L. minor; nor can I perceive any material difference between our L. 

 .■nworvmd the plant labelled L. racemulosa, in the Muhlenbergian Herbarium* 



[Stellar ia media. Decandria Trizynia.~\ 

 [Amaranthus albus. Monoccia Triandria.] 



CLASS IV. TETRA1VDRIA. 



Order I. Ifloiiogynia* 



A* Ovary inferior ; or adnate to the tube of the Calyx. 

 U. Corolla monopetalous — or 0. 



67. CEPHALANTHUS. L. JVutt. Gen. 129. 

 [Crreek, Kephale, a Head, and Anthos, a Flower; the flowers growing in heads. j 



Calyx small, angular, 4-toothed. Corolla tubular, slender, funnel- 

 form, the limb 4*cleft. Style much exserted ; stigma capitate. Cap- 

 sitle obversely pyramidal, 2-celled, 2-seeded, bipartile. Receptacle 

 globose, hairy. 



A Shrub: Leaves entire, opposite or ternate ; flowers in globose pedunculate 

 ktads without an involucre, axillary and terminal, Nat. Ord. 190. Lindl. Cm* 



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