. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. 1. D. nudiflftrum (L.) DC. Leaves all crowded at the summit of sterile stems; leaflets broadly ovate, bluntish, whitish beneath ; raceme elon- gated on an ascending mostly leafless stalk or scape 6-10 dm. high. {Meibomia Ktze.)—Dry woods, »oit T. s. Me. to w. Que., Ont., Minn, and southw. Fig. Too. Jj. nnaiiiomni. tqp, -v , , 2. D. grandifl&nim (Walt.) DC. Leaves all crowded at the summit of the stem from which arises the elongated nake
. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. 1. D. nudiflftrum (L.) DC. Leaves all crowded at the summit of sterile stems; leaflets broadly ovate, bluntish, whitish beneath ; raceme elon- gated on an ascending mostly leafless stalk or scape 6-10 dm. high. {Meibomia Ktze.)—Dry woods, »oit T. s. Me. to w. Que., Ont., Minn, and southw. Fig. Too. Jj. nnaiiiomni. tqp, -v , , 2. D. grandifl&nim (Walt.) DC. Leaves all crowded at the summit of the stem from which arises the elongated naked raceme or panicle; leaflets round- ovate, taper-pointed, green both sides, the end one round (;i dm. long). (Z). acu- minatum DC.; Meibomia grandiflora Ktze.) — Rich woods, ceutr. Me. to Ont., S. Dak., and southw. Fig. 786. 3. D. pauciflbrum (Nutt.) DC. Leaves scattered along the low (2-4 dm. high) ascending stems; leaflets rhombic-ovate, ^gj ^ grandiflorum bluntish, pale beneath ; racpme/ero-^owered, terminal. {Meibomia Ktze.) — Woods, Ont. to Pa., Mich., Kan., and southw. § 2. Pod raised on a stalk {stipe) little if at all surpassing the deeply cleft calyx; stems long and prostrate or decumbent; racemes axillary and terminal. * Stipules conspicuous, ovate, attenuate, striate, persistent; racemes mostly simple. 4. D. rotundifdlium (Michx.) DC. Soft-hairy cell over, truly prostrate ; leaf- lets orbicular, or the odd one slightly rhomboid ; flowers purple; pods almost equally sinuate on both edges, S-S-jointed ; the joints rhomboid-oval. {Meibi'tnia Mich- auxii Vail.) — Dry woods, e. Mass. to Fla., w. to Minn., Mo., and La. — A form with ovate leaflets occurs in Va. (Curtiss). 5. D. ochroleucum M. A. Curtis. Stems sparsely hairy, decumbent; leaflets nearly glabrous, ovate, acute or obtuse, transversely T87 T> ochroleucum. reticulated beneath, the lateral ones smaller or sometimes wanting; racemes much elon- gated ; corolla whitish; pods twisted, 2-4-jo
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