Linderttia dilatata. Ill 



length, abortive and garnished with a fork near the head. The two 

 shorter, fertile aud filiform. Anthers two-lobed, pale straw -yellow. 

 Germ superior, ovate ; style persistent. Stigma bilabiate and flatten- 

 ed. Seeds small, very numerous, pale-brown or ochre-yellow. 

 Grows along the margins of rivers, creeks, and ditches, in loose 

 gravelly or sandy soil, from the New England states to Georgia, 

 flowering from May to September. The variety js. described by 

 Pursh, appears to be the very distinct and well-marked species 

 called attenuata by Muhlenberg. 



The genus Lindernia was named by Altioni in honour of Francis 

 Balthazar Von Lindern, a physician and botanist of Strasburg, who 

 flourished in the early part of the last century. The present species 

 seems specifically distinct from the European Lindernia pyxidaria 

 described by Willdenow. This opinion is not founded on Pursh's 

 remark to the same effect, induced by his wrong impression of Wili- 

 denow's description of the length of the peduncles. In the Species 

 Plantarum.that author describes the peduncles as being often longer 

 than the leaves, on the top of the stem, "pedunculi foliis breviores 

 sed in apice caulis saepius longiores." I have in my herbarium a 

 small specimen from France, of Lindernia pyxidaria, an inch and a 

 half high, which was sent to me by Professor Horneman of Copen- 

 hagen . Comparing our plant with this specimen, relatively to its spe- 

 cific character, there appears this discrepancy : — in the European 

 plant the leaves are not dilated towards the base j are simply sessile,. 



