Chapter L: VULGARIS, L., a coarse and tall European species, pubescent and

branching, with ovate-lanceolate distinctly petioled leaves, and glandular filaments united to near the middle.--Naturalized in a few places in E. Mass.

[*][*] _Flowers (small) in a virgate terminal raceme or in the upper axils; corolla dark-dotted or streaked; filaments conspicuously monadelphous, unequal._

1. L. quadrifolia, L. Somewhat hairy; stem simple (1--2 deg. high); _leaves whorled_ in fours or fives (sometimes in twos, threes, or sixes, rarely only opposite or partly alternate), ovate-lanceolate; _flowers_ on long capillary peduncles _from the axils of the leaves_; lobes of the corolla ovate-oblong.--Moist or sandy soil, N. Brunswick to Minn., and Ga. June.

2. L. stricta, Ait. Stems 1--2 deg. high, often bearing oblong or moniliform bulblets in the axils; smooth, at length branched, very leafy; _leaves opposite_ or rarely alternate, lanceolate, acute at each end; _flowers_ on slender pedicels _in a long raceme_ (5--12'), leafy at base; lobes of the corolla lance-oblong.--Low grounds, Newf. to Minn., Ark., and N. Ga. June--Aug.

[*][*][*] _Flowers (rather large) solitary in the axils of ordinary leaves; corolla not dark-dotted nor streaked; filaments slightly monadelphous._