TRIANDRIA, DIGYNIA. 
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of 2 petals. Stigmas 2 or 3. Capsule of 2 
or 3 cells, cells 1-seeded. Nutt. 
1. E. scapes aggregated, somewhat pubescent ; leaves flaviduium; 
short, subulate ensiform, nerved ; capitulum con- 
vex ; involucre scales sub-orbiculate ; flosciili 
scarcely papillous. Mich. 
A diminutive and unhandsome plant, from one to two inches 
high, with inconspicuous flowers in blackish capituli . On the 
gravelly shores of the Schuylkill, opposite to Lemon-hill, to be 
I observed only at low ebb-tide. On the gravelly shores of the 
i Delaware below high water mark, above Kensington, in com- 
pany with Isoetes lacustris, Hemianthus raicranthemoides, 
[ Crypta minima, and Alisma subulata, abundant- Annual. July, 
70. Lechea, Kalm* Gen. pi. 142. ( CaryopUllcas , ) 
Calix 3-leaved. Petals 3, linear. Styles 0, 
stigmata 3, plumose. Capsule 3-celled, 3- 
valved, with as many other interior valves. 
Seeds 1 in each cell. Nutt. 
1. L. radical branches prostrated, villous; leaves majqr. 
j lanceolate, mucronate, hairy ; panicles small, fiow- 
‘ ers clustered ; stem erect. Elliot. 
I L. major, Mich. Willd. and Muhl. 
L. villosa, Elliot, 
I Larger Lechea. 
j About a foot or fifteen inches high. In Jersey, on the 
neglected borders of sandy cultivated fields, and by the sides 
I of roads through sandy woods, abundant. Perennial. July, 
1 August. 
I 
1 2. L. smoothish, leaves linear-lanceolate acute (cili- minor, 
j ated) ; panicle leafy ; branches long every where 
j bearing flowers ; flowers shortly pedicellated ; 
I stem assurgent. Willd and Pursh. 
I L, minor, Willd. Mich. Muhl. Pursh. 
j Icon. Lam. illustr. t. 52, f. 1. 
Lesser Lechea. 
