[Reprinted from TORREYA, Vol. 19, No. 8, August, 1919.] 
SCROPHULARIACEAE OF THE LOCAL FLORA. II 
By FRANCIS W. PENNELL 
5. LrmoseE.ra L. Sp. Pl. 631. 1753. 
Type species, L. aquatica L., of Europe. 
1. LIMOSELLA SUBULATA Ives in Trans. Phys. Med. Soc. N. Y. 
1:440. 1817. ‘First observedin 1816... 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 oe 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. 1919. This species ranges from 
Labrador to Maryland. 
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