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calyx hairy; calyx teeth, terminating in a villous point. Corolla 

 hairy. Flowers purple, mixed with yellow. Legume smooth, eight 

 to nine seeded. 



Habitat — Pine barrens of Pontchatoula. Flowers in July. 



10. Lihum Lockettii — Stem about one and a half feet high, naked, 

 leaves radical, clustered, about seven inches long, one inch broad, 

 linear lanceolate, remotely and obscurely dentate, many nerved with 

 transverse interstitial nerves, so as to give the leaf the appearance 

 of laticework. Leaves of the perianth laticed like the stem leaves, 

 narrow, lanceolate, accuminate, white, four inches long. Tube of 

 the perianth two inches long, narrow, attached to a two inch long 

 peduncle. Flowers from three to five, clustered around the summit 

 of the stem. 



Habitat — This lily grows in the Calcasieu prairies on the banks of 

 Lake St. Charles, where Colonel Lockett, who conducts the topo- 

 graphical survey, and after whom it is named, first discovered it. 



11. Oenothera paludosa — Stem slender, simple or branched, some- 

 what wing-angled, shrubby at the base, fistulous, covered with a 

 scurfy minute pubescence. Leaves entire, narrow lanceolate, acute 

 three nerved, tapering into a short petiole orsessile, one and a half 

 inches long. Pod four-angled, not winged longer than the pedicel. 

 Sepals lanceolate, terminating in a subulate point. 



Habitat — This Oenothera grows in the swampy prairie in St. 

 Landry, between Ville Platte and Chicotville. Its stem is from one 

 to three feet high. It flowers in August. Flowers yellow. 



12. Helenium Seminariense — Leaves oblong lanceolate, entire, 

 obtuse, decurrent. Scales of involucre linear lanceolate. Ray 

 florets three lobed, broad, cuneate, longer than the disk. Disk 

 florets five-cleft. Disk globose. Scales of pappus ovate, long, 

 awn-pointed. Stem, leaves and peduncles sparingly glandular hairy. 

 Achenia smooth with two ciliate lines. 



Habitat — Pine barrens, Rapides. Stem one and a half feet high. 

 Flowers yellow and flowers in June. The flowers of this species are 

 nearly twice as large as those of H. quadridentatum. 



13. Lippia nodijiora Mich., var. microphylla. — Stem creeping, pe- 

 duncles naked, rising from the creeping stem, four to five times as 

 long as the leaves. Leaves fleshy, small, one-half to three-fourths 

 of an inch long, three lines wide; spatulate lanceolate, tapering into 

 a petiole, serrate above, entire below the middle. 



