. 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. 4. POLYPREMUML. Sp. PI. III. 1753. A glabrous diffusely branchel annual herb, with opposite linear-subulate leaves, their bases connected by a stipular membrane, and small white flowers in terminal bracted cymes. Calyx deeply 4-parted (rarely S-parted), the segments subulate, scarious-margined below. Corolla rotate-campanulate, bearded in the throat, shorter th
. 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. 4. POLYPREMUML. Sp. PI. III. 1753. A glabrous diffusely branchel annual herb, with opposite linear-subulate leaves, their bases connected by a stipular membrane, and small white flowers in terminal bracted cymes. Calyx deeply 4-parted (rarely S-parted), the segments subulate, scarious-margined below. Corolla rotate-campanulate, bearded in the throat, shorter than the calyx, 4-lobed (rarely 5-lobed), the lobes imbricated in the bud. Stamens 4 (rarely 5), inserted on the corolla, included; filaments short; anthers ovoid-globose. Ovules nurnerous in each cavity of the ovary, on oblong placentae; style short; stigma capitate or obscurely 2-lobed. Capsule globose-ovoid, slightly compressed, didymous, loculicidally 2-valved, the carpels at length septicidal. Seeds minute, smooth. [Greek, many-stemmed.] A monotype, abundant in the warmer parts of America. I. Polj^jremum procumbens L. Polypremum. Fig. 3329- Polypremum procumbens L. Sp. PI. iii. 1753. Stems tufted, somewhat rigid, 4-angled, spreading on the ground, ascending or erect, usually much branched, 2'-i2' long. Leaves narrowly linear, i'-ii' long, i"-i" wide, acute, sessile, minutely rough-toothed on the mar- gins, often with smaller ones fascicled in their axils; flowers solitary, sessile in the forks of the cymes and along their branches, leafy-bracted, the bracts similar to the upper leaves; corolla i" or less long; capsule crusta- ceous, about l" in diameter, slightly 2-lobed, the lobes obtuse. In dry sandy soil, New Jersey and Pennsylvania to Flor- ida, Kentucky, Missouri, Texas and Mexico. Also in the West Indies. Occurs in cultivated fields as a weed. Prob- ably adventive in its northern range. Please note that these images are extracted from sca
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