. 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. OXAGRACEAE. Vol. II. 5. Gaura villosa Torr. Woolly Gaura. Fig. 3072. Gaura vilosa Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 2: 200, 1827 Perenniai, erect or neany so, canescent or villous. Sterns l°-3° tall, simple or much branched, often naked above; leaves varying from lanceolate to oblanceolate or sometimes nearly linear, 1-3' long, sinuate- toothed or pinnatifid, acute or acuminate,
. 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. OXAGRACEAE. Vol. II. 5. Gaura villosa Torr. Woolly Gaura. Fig. 3072. Gaura vilosa Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 2: 200, 1827 Perenniai, erect or neany so, canescent or villous. Sterns l°-3° tall, simple or much branched, often naked above; leaves varying from lanceolate to oblanceolate or sometimes nearly linear, 1-3' long, sinuate- toothed or pinnatifid, acute or acuminate, sessile; calyx canescent. its tube above the ovary funnelform, i"-2" long, several times shorter than the linear acute segments; petals oblong-obovate, S'-y" long; stamens shorter than tlie petals; fruit about 5" long, sparingly pubescent, the body sharply 4 ingled, abruptly narrowed into a slender hliform pedicel. In dry soil, Kansas to Arkansas and Texas. Wild honeysuckle. June-Sept. 19. STENOSIPHON Spach, Nouv. Ann. ]\Ius. Tar 4: 326. 1835. Erect perennia. herbs, with slender upright branches, alternate sessile narrow leaves, and white sessile flowers in narrow terminal spikes. filiform, much prolonged beyond the ovary, 4-Iobed. Petals 4, clawed, unequal. Stamens 8, declined, not appendaged by scales at the base; filaments filiformi Ovary i-celled; united styles slender; stigma 4-lobed, subtended by a cup-like border as in Gaura; ovules commonly 4. Fruit 8-ribbed. indehiscent, i-celled, i-seeded. Seed pendulous. [Greek, referring to the slender calyx-tube.] A monotypic genus of the south-central United States. I. Stenosiphon linifolium (Nntt.) Britten. Flax-leaved Steno- siphon. Fig. 3073. Gaura Unifolia Nutt. in Long's Exp. 2 : 100. Stenosiphon virgalus Spach, Nouv. Ann. Mus. Par. 4: .•526. 1835. Stenosiphon Hnifolitim Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 5 : 236. 1894. Erect, slender, glabrous, 2°-s'' high. Leaves sessile, lanceolate, linear-lanceo
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