76 TRIANDRIA, DIGYNIA. 



I know not whether this is the L. minor of Walter, which 

 Mr. Elliot has made synonymous with the L. racemulosa, but 

 on comparing my specimens with the Muhlenbergian Herba- 

 rium in the Philosopnical Society, I find that it is the real 

 minor of Muhl. and Wiild. ; and consequently of Mich, and 

 others, though not of Linnzeus. It is very nearly allied to the 

 L. racemulosa, good specimens of which are contained in 

 that herbarium. The chief discrepancy is in the racemous- 

 like inflorescence of the latter plant. The character mention- 

 tioned in the books, as discriminative, viz. .the ciliated leaves, 

 is fallacious, and ought to be left out of the specific descrip- 

 tion, for the ciliation is nearly as remarkable without a lens, in 

 the minor, as in the racemulosa. Another difference between 

 these two plants is the greater length, and more unequivo- 

 cally linear leaves in the racemulosa, than in the minor, as I am 

 i informed by Mr. Collins, he has frequently seen in the former, 

 growing in Virginia. The leaves, however, vary considerably, 

 and the specimens of the racemulosa in the herbarium above 

 mentioned, are in one or two instances, particularly in the 

 young plant, oval-lanceolate, and in others, further advanced, 

 very linear. I have never seen the racemulosa growing. 



L. minor (above) is found on dry sandy or gravelly places, 

 in Jersey, and on this side of the river. Common. Perennial. 

 July. 



Proserpinaca. Gen. pi. 134. ( ' Hydrocharides . ) 



Calix superior, 3 -parted, persistent. Corolla 0. 

 Hut triquetrous, 3 -celled. NuiU 



paiustris. 1. P. «, upper leaves linear-lanceolate, serrate ; low- 

 er ones pinnatifid. Willd. 



In a swampy wood back of Laundreth's gardens . Also in a 

 pool west of the south end of Woodbury, New Jersey. Abun- 

 dant. Perennial. ? July. 



iectiwta. J 8 leaves all pectinate. Mich. 



This is hardly more than a variety I think, for I have ob- 

 served a very gradual approach from one to the other. I have 

 not observed the difference in the form of the seed noticed by 

 Mr. Elliot ; and in our plant, I doubt if it ever occurs ; or if 

 it does, whether it be constant. — In a pool near Woodbury, 

 Jersey, and close to the spot just mentioned as the habitat of 

 the preceding. Rare. Perennial*? August. 



