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pate blue ; mature capsule ovoid, inflated. — Dry sterile soil in the upper districts, 

 and northward. Aug. aud Sept. Q) or (g) — Stem 1° - 1 ^° high. Corolla 2"- 

 3" long. 



9. L. spicata, Lam. Closely pubescent; stem slender, simple; lowest 

 leaves obovate or oblong, obtuse, denticulate ; the upper ones small, lanceolate, 

 scattered; flowers small, in a long and dense raceme, on short pedicels; corolla 

 pale blue. (L. Claytoniana, Michx.) — Dry soil in the middle and upper dis- 

 tricts, Mississippi, and northward. Aug. and Sept. (g) • — Stem l°-2° high. 

 Corolla 4" -5" long. 



10. L. Nuttallii, R. & S Stem very slender, mostly simple, roughish ; 

 leaves small, entire ; the lowest clustered, spatulate or obovate; the others dis- 

 tant, linear; flowers small, scattered in a long and slender raceme, on filiform 

 pedicels which arc longer than the bracts. (L. Kalmii, Ell.) — Low pine bar- 

 rens, Georgia, and northward. Aug. and Sept. — Stem 1° - 1£° high. Corolla 

 3"- 4" long, pale blue. 



11. L. Boykillii, Torr. & Gray. Smooth; stem slender, creeping at the 

 base, sparingly branched above ; leaves small (6" long), subulate, scattered, the 

 lowest scale-like ; racemes loosely many-flowered, the filiform pedicels and slen- 

 der calyx-lobes spreading ; corolla (3" - 5" long) bright blue. — Margins of pine- 

 barren ponds, Florida and Georgia. July - Sept. — Stem 2° high. 



12. L. paludosa, Nutt Smooth; stem mostly simple, nearly leafless; 

 radical leaves fleshy, spatulate-lanceolatc or linear, obtuse, crenulate ; the others 

 small, linear and remote ; racemes slender, loose ; bracts minute; corolla small, 

 white or pale blue. — Pine-barren swamps, Florida to Mississippi, and north- 

 ward. May -Aug. 1|. — Stem 2° -4° high. Lowest leaves 3'- 9' long. Co- 



Order 74. GOODENIACE^E. (Goodexia Family.) 



Herbs or shrubs, with watery juice, alternate exstipulate leaves, and 

 irregular flowers. — Calyx tubular, 3 -5-lobed or entire, more or less ad- 

 herent to the 1-4-celled ovary. Corolla irregular, unequally 5-lobed, 

 induplicate in the bud ; the tube split on one side, or 5-parted. Stamens 

 5, free from the corolla, the filaments and anthers rarely united. Style 

 commonly single : stigma thick, surrounded with a cup-shaped mostly 

 ciiiate membrane. Fruit capsular or drupaceous. Embryo straight, in 

 the axis of fleshy albumen. 



1. SCJEVOLA, L. 



Calyx 5-toothed. Corolla villous within, 5-lobcd, with the lobes nearly equal 

 and fringed , the tube split on one side. Filaments and anthers free. Drupe 

 1 -4-cclled, the cells 1 -seeded. — Herbs or shrubs. Leaves alternate. Feduu- 

 ciea axillary, dichotomous. Flowers blue or white. 



