. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 6io ONAGRACEAE. Vol. 5. Gaura villosa Torr. Woolly Gaura. Fig. 3072. Gaura vilosa Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 2: 200. 1827 Perennial, erect or neany so, canescent or villous. Stems i°-3° tall, simple or much branched, often naked aJjove; leaves varying from lanceolate to oblanceolate or sometimes nearly linear, 1-3' long, sinuate- toothed or pinnatifid, acute or
. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 6io ONAGRACEAE. Vol. 5. Gaura villosa Torr. Woolly Gaura. Fig. 3072. Gaura vilosa Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 2: 200. 1827 Perennial, erect or neany so, canescent or villous. Stems i°-3° tall, simple or much branched, often naked aJjove; leaves varying from lanceolate to oblanceolate or sometimes nearly linear, 1-3' long, sinuate- toothed or pinnatifid, acute or acuminate, sessile; calyx canescent, its tube above the ovary funnelform, i"-2" long, several times shorter than the linear acute segments; petals oblong-obovate, s"-7" long; stamens shorter than the petals; fruit about s" long, sparingly pubescent, the body sharply 4-angled, abruptly narrowed into a slender liliform pedicel. In dry soil, Kansas to Arkansas and Texas. Wild honeysuckle. June-Sept. 19. STENOSIPHON Spach, Nouv. Ann. Mus. Par. 4: 326. 1835. Erect perennia. herbs, with slender upright branches, alternate sessile narrow leaves, and white sessile flowers in narrow terminal spikes. Calyx-tube filiform, much prolonged beyond the ovary, 4-lobed. Petals 4, clawed, unequal. Stamens 8, declined, not appendaged by scales at the base; filaments filiformi Ovary i-celled; united styles slender; stigma 4-lobed, subtended by a cup-like border as in Gaura; ovules commonly 4. Fruit 8-ribbed, indehiscent, i-celled, i-seeded. Seed pendulous. [Greek, referring to the slender calyx-tube.] A monotypic genus of the south-central United States. I. Stenosiphon linifolium (Nutt.) Britten. Flax-leaved Steno- siphon. Fig. 3073. Gaura Unifolia Nutt. in Long's Exp. 2: loo. 1823. Stenosiphon virgafus Spach, Nouv. Ann. Mus. Par. 4: 326. 1835. Stenosiphon linifolium Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 5 : 236. 1894. Erect, slender, glabrous, 2°-^° high. Leaves sessile, lanceolat
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