. 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. I. Naumburgia thyrsiflora (L.) Duby. Tufted Loosestrife. Fig. 3297. Lysimachia thyrsiflora L. Sp. PI. 147. 1753. Naumburgia guttata Moench, Meth. Suppl. 23. 1802. Naumburgia thyrsiflora Duby, in DC. Prodr. 8: 60. 1844. Glabrous or somewhat pubescent; stems simple, erect, often tufted, i°-2i° high. Leaves 2-4' long, 4"-io" wide, the upper lanceolate 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. I. Naumburgia thyrsiflora (L.) Duby. Tufted Loosestrife. Fig. 3297. Lysimachia thyrsiflora L. Sp. PI. 147. 1753. Naumburgia guttata Moench, Meth. Suppl. 23. 1802. Naumburgia thyrsiflora Duby, in DC. Prodr. 8: 60. 1844. Glabrous or somewhat pubescent; stems simple, erect, often tufted, i°-2i° high. Leaves 2-4' long, 4"-io" wide, the upper lanceolate or oblong-lanceo- late, acute or acuminate at the apex, narrowed at the base, the lower smaller, the' lowest reduced to ovate scales or these deciduous; peduncles solitary in the axils, rather stout, i'-ii' long; racemes dense, oblong or ovoid, i'-l' long, spike-like; pedicels very short; flowers 2"-3" broad; sepals usually spotted; corolla- segments yellow with black spots; style very slender; anthers oblong; capsule globose, black-spotted, when mature slightly longer than the sepals, shorter than the style. In swamps, Nova Scotia to Alaska, south to southern New York, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Nebraska, Montana and California. Also in Europe and Asia. May-July. 8. TRIENTALIS L. Sp. PI. 344. 1753. Glabrous low perennial herbs, with simple slender erect stems, and lanceolate ovate or oblong leaves mostly clustered in a verticil at the summit. Flowers few or solitary, terminal, slender-peduncled, small, white or pink, deeply 5-9- (mostly 7-) parted. Sepals narrow, per- sistent, spreading. Corolla rotate, its tube almost none, its segments convolute in the bud, acute or acuminate, entire; filaments united into a narrow ring at the base; anthers linear- oblong, recurved after anthesis. Staminodia none. Ovary globose; ovules numerous; style filiform. Capsule globose, 5-valved, many-seeded. Seeds trigonous or spherical. [Latin, one-third of a foot, referring to the height of
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