. 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 . I. Gelsemium sempervirens (L.) Ait. f. Yellow Jessamine. Carolina Jasmine. Fig. 3326. Bignonia sempervirens L. Sp. PI. 623. 1753. C. lutidiim Michx. FI. Bor. .'"im. i : 120. 1803. C. sempervirens Ait. f. Hort. Kew. 2 : 64. 1811. Stem slender, climbing or trailing, sometimes 20° long. Leaves lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, entire, short-petioled, per-
. 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 . I. Gelsemium sempervirens (L.) Ait. f. Yellow Jessamine. Carolina Jasmine. Fig. 3326. Bignonia sempervirens L. Sp. PI. 623. 1753. C. lutidiim Michx. FI. Bor. .'"im. i : 120. 1803. C. sempervirens Ait. f. Hort. Kew. 2 : 64. 1811. Stem slender, climbing or trailing, sometimes 20° long. Leaves lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, entire, short-petioled, per- sistent, evergreen, ii'-3' long, s"-i2" wide; cymes I-6-flowered; pedicels short; bractlets several, dry, oblong or lanceolate, l"-2" long; flowers dimorphous ; sepals oblong, obtuse; corolla bright yellow, I'-ii' long; stigmas in one form short and anthers exserted, in the other form longer and anthers included; capsule flat, channeled on both sides, 4"-/" long, cuspidate; seeds very flat, broadly winged at the summit. In woods and thickets, eastern Virginia to Florida. Texas. Mexico and Guatemala, mostly near the coast. March-Oct. Called also Carolina wild woodbine, and evening trumpet-flower. 7. SPIGELIA L. Sp. PI. 149. 1753. Herbs, with opposite membranous entire pinnately veined leaves, small stipules, or the leaf-bases connected by a stipular line, and red yellow or purple flowers in scorpioid cymes or unilateral spikes, or terminal and in the forks of the branches. Calyx deeply 5-parted. Corolla narrowly funnelform, 5-lobed, the lobes valvate, the tube finely 15-nerved. Stamens 5, inserted on the corolla-tube; anthers 2-lobed at the base. Ovules numerous, on peltate pla- centae; style filiform, jointed near the middle, papillose above; stigma obtuse. Capsule didymous, 2-celled, somewhat flattened contrary to the dissepiment, circumscissile above the persistent base, the 2 carpels becoming 2-valved. Seeds peltate, not winged. [Named for Adri
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