TRIANDRIA, DIGYNIA. 7 



of 2 petals. Stigma* 2 or 3. Capsule of 2 

 or 3 cells, cells 1-seeded. .Yutt. 



1. E. scapes aggregated, somewhat pubescent; leaves fcwi*d«m. 

 short, subulate ensiform, nerved ; capitulum con- 

 vex ; involucre scales sub-orbiculate ; flosculi 

 scarcely papillous. Mich* 



A diminutive and unhandsome plant, from one to two inches 

 high, with inconspicuous flowers in blackish capituli. On the 

 gravelly chores of' the Schuylkill, opposite to Lemon-hill, to be 

 observed only at low ebb-tide. On the gravelly shores of the 

 Delaware below high water mark, above Kensington, in com- 

 y witli Isoetcs lacustris, Hemianthus micranthemoidi -, 

 Crypta minima, and Alisma subulata, abundant- Annual. July. 



70. Lkchea, Kalm- Gen. pi. 142. ( ' CaryophUU* . ) 



Calix 3 -leaved. Petals 3, linear. Styles 0, 

 stigmata 3, plumose. Capsule 3-cclled, 3- 

 valved, with as many other interior valves. 

 Seeds 1 in each cell. JVutt. 



1. L. radical branches prostrated, villous ; leaver 

 lanceolate, mucronate, hairy ; panicles small, flow- 

 ers clustered ; stem erect- Elliot. 



L. major, Mich. Willi, and MuhL 

 L. villosa, Elliot. 



Larger Lechea. 



About a foot or fifteen inches high. In Jersey, on the 

 neglected borders of sandy cultivated fields, and by the side9 

 of roads through sandy woods, abundant. Perennial. July, 

 August. 



2. L. smoothish, leaves linear-lanceolate acute (cili- dumr 

 ated) ; panicle leafy ; branches long every where 

 bearing flowers ; flowers shortly pedicellated ; 



m assurgent. Willd and Pursh. 

 L. minor, Willd. Mich. Muhl. Pursh. 

 Icon. Lam. illustr. t. 52, f. 1. 



Lesser Lechea, 



