Chapter V: LYCHNITIS, L. (WHITE M.) Clothed with thin powdery woolliness; stem

and branches angled above; leaves ovate, acute, not decurrent, greenish above; _flowers_ (yellow, rarely white) _in a pyramidal panicle_; filaments with whitish wool.--Fields, N. Atlantic States, rather rare. (Adv. from Eu.)

2. LINARIA, Tourn. TOAD-FLAX.

Calyx 5-parted. Corolla personate, with the prominent palate often nearly closing the throat, spurred at base on the lower side. Stamens 4. Capsule thin, opening below the summit by one or two pores or chinks. Seeds many.--Herbs, with at least all the upper leaves alternate (in ours), fl. in summer. (Name from _Linum_, the Flax, which the leaves of some species resemble.)

[*] _Slender glabrous annual or biennial; leaves linear, entire and alternate (or smaller, oblong, and opposite on procumbent shoots), small blue flowers in a naked terminal raceme_.

1. L. Canadensis, Dumont. Flowering stems nearly simple (6--30' high); leaves flat (1--2'' wide); pedicels erect, not longer than the filiform curved spur of the corolla.--Sandy soil, common.

[*][*] _Perennial, erect (1--3 deg. high), glabrous, with narrow entire and alternate pale leaves, and yellow flowers in a terminal raceme._

L. VULGARIS, Mill. (RAMSTED. BUTTER AND EGGS.) Leaves linear or nearly so, extremely numerous; raceme dense; corolla 1' long or more, including the slender subulate spur; seeds winged.--Fields and roadsides, throughout our range. (Nat. from Eu.)

L. GENISTIFOLIA, Mill. Glaucous, paniculately branched; leaves lanceolate, acute; flowers smaller and more scattered; seeds wingless.--Sparingly naturalized near New York. (Nat. from Eu.)

[*][*][*] _Annual, procumbent, much branched, with broad petioled veiny alternate leaves, and small purplish and yellow flowers from their axils._

L. ELATINE, Mill. Spreading over the ground, slender, hairy; leaves hastate or the lower ovate, much surpassed by the filiform peduncles; calyx-lobes lanceolate, acute; corolla 3--4'' long, including the subulate spur.--Sandy banks and shores, Canada to N. C., rather rare. (Nat. from Eu.)