. 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. Botany. 14. Polygala alba Xutt. White Milkwort. Fig. 2708. Polygala alba Nutt. Gen. 2: 87. 1818. Polygala Senega var. tenuifolia Pursh. Fl. Am. Sept. 750. 1814. Not P. tenuifolia Willd. 1803. Perennial, glabrous, stems erect from hard woody root- stocks, slender, 6-15' high. Leaves alternate, narrowly linear, acute, 3"-i2" long, i"-i" wide, their margins e
. 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. Botany. 14. Polygala alba Xutt. White Milkwort. Fig. 2708. Polygala alba Nutt. Gen. 2: 87. 1818. Polygala Senega var. tenuifolia Pursh. Fl. Am. Sept. 750. 1814. Not P. tenuifolia Willd. 1803. Perennial, glabrous, stems erect from hard woody root- stocks, slender, 6-15' high. Leaves alternate, narrowly linear, acute, 3"-i2" long, i"-i" wide, their margins entire and revolute, the lower somewhat broader and shorter, clustered; spike terminal, long-peduncled, dense, i'-2'Iong; flowers l"-iJ" long, white; pedicels less than 4" long; wings oblong-ovate, slightly concave; crest of the corolla short; seeds silky; about twice the length of the caruncle- lobes. Prairies, South Dakota to Nebraska, Kansas, Texas and Mexico, Montana, New Mexico and Arizona. May-July. 15. Polygalapolygama\\alt. Racemed Milkwort. Fig. 2709. Polygala polygama Walt. Fl. Car. 179. 1788. abortiva Chodat, 1893. Me Gen. P. polyga 31=: .28c Biennial, glabrous; stems numerous, simple, 4'-2o' high, erect from a deep slender root. Stem-leaves crowded, oblong or oblanceolate, obtuse, mucronulate, 8"-i2" long, i"-2" wide, entire, the lower gradually smaller; basal leaves spatulate, sometimes smaller; raceme terminal, loose, 1-4' long; pedicels spreading or recurved. i"-2" long; flowers purple or rose, rarely nearly white, showy. 2"-3" long, or some of them small and cleistogamous; wings broadly obovate; crest of the corolla large, laciniate; stamens 8; subterranean branches horizontal, bearing numerous, nearly sessile cleistogamous flowers; seeds hairy, longer than the caruncle-lobes. In dry soil. Nova Scotia to Manitoba. Michigan, Florida and Texas. Local, wort. Centaury. June-July. or pink. Please note that these i
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