. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. 8. Polygala incarnata L. Pink Milkwort. Fig. 2702. Polygala L. Sp. PI. -( Annual, erect, glabrous, glaucous, very slender, l°-2° high, simple, or sparingly branched. Basal leaves none; stem-leaves alternate, distant, linear or subulate, sessile, i"-6" long, rarely wanting; spike terminal, dense", I'-li' long, 2"-4" thick; pedicels i" or l
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. 8. Polygala incarnata L. Pink Milkwort. Fig. 2702. Polygala L. Sp. PI. -( Annual, erect, glabrous, glaucous, very slender, l°-2° high, simple, or sparingly branched. Basal leaves none; stem-leaves alternate, distant, linear or subulate, sessile, i"-6" long, rarely wanting; spike terminal, dense", I'-li' long, 2"-4" thick; pedicels i" or less long; bracts minute or none: flowers pink or rose, 5"-6" long; corolla-tube ver>' slender, 3"-4" long. 2-5 times the length of the wings, its keel prominently crested; wings cuspidate; seed hairy, the caruncle-lobes enveloping its beaked extremity. In dry soil, southern Ontario to Wisconsin, New Jersey, Florida, Arkansas and Mexico. Procession- or rogation-flower. Summer. 9. Polygala viridescens L. Field or Purple Milkwort. Fig. 2703. Polygala viridescens L. Sp. PI. 705. 1753. Polygala sanguinea L. Sp. PI. 705. 1753. Erect, 6-15' high, annual, glabrous, branching above, leafy. Stem somewhat angled; basal leaves none; stem-leaves oblong, or linear-oblong, 8"-is" long, i"-2" wide, obtuse or acute, mucronulate; heads globose, becoming oval, 4"-6" thick, obtuse; pedicels about i" long; flowers rose-purple, green- ish, or sometimes white; wings sessile, sometimes slightly cordate, ovate, exceeding the pod; bracts generally persistent on the elongating axis; seed obovoid. hairy, about the length of the caruncle; crest minute. In fields and meadows, Nova Scotia to southern On- tario, North Carolina. Minnesota. Kansas. Arkansas and Louisiana. June-Sept. The contrast between the green-flowered and purple-flowered forms is striking where the two grow together. Strawberry-tassel. 29. Please note that these images are extracte
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