A Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States 1862 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 Excerpt: ...5-parted. Corolla with a very short tube, and a spreading 5-parted limb. Stamens 5: filaments often united in a ring at the base. Pod globose, 5-10-vnlvcd, few-many-seeded. (Parts of the flower rarely in fours or sixes.)--Perennial herbs, with entire leaves, and axillary or raccmed flowers: corolla mostly yellow. (Named in honor of King Lysimacltus, or from vais, a releas- /, p X4 strife. (; 1. TRID't'NIA, Raf.--Leaves opposite or whorled, sessile, dotted: calyx and ifttltlfi)- tllow corolla streaked with dark lines: filaments mostly unoqtud. plainly monadilphous at the base, with no interposed sterile ones: anthers short: podbvalnd, rijH-mnij only 2-5 seeds. I. 1j. stl'ictll, Ait Smooth, at length branched, very leafy; leaves opposite or rarely alternate, lanceolate, acute at each end; fioicers on slender pedicels in a Ion;/ raceme (5'-12'), which is leafy at the base; or, in var. Producta, leafy for fully half its length: lobes of the corolla lance-oblong. Low grounds; common. June-At g.--Stems Io-2 high, often bearing oblong or moniliformbulblets in the axils. 2. L. qitadlifulia, L. Somcwnai hairy; stem simple (Io-2 high); leaves trhorled in foul's or fives (rarely in threes or sixes) ovatc-lanceohrtc;flowers ou long capillary peduncles from tlie axils of the lea res; lobes of the corolla ovate-oblong.--Moist or sandy soil; common. June.--A variety lias the leaves varying to opposite anil partly alternate, some of the upper reduced to bracts shorter than the peduncles. (Near New York, Washington, &c.) 4 2. STKIKONEMA, Haf.--Leaves op xsite, not dotttd, glabrous, mostly ciliatt at the base: flowers noildiug on slender peduncles from the axils of the ujijer Icares: corolla light yelluiv, not...