An illustrated flora of the 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 ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 36 PORTULACACEAE. Flowers 4'-8' broad; sepals deciduous. Stamens 10-30 ; capsule globose. Stigma-lobes very short. Stigma-lobes about one-third as long as the style. Stamens only 5 ; capsule oval. Flowers io'-i5' broad; sepals persistent. I. 7'. teretifoliu 1. T. rugospern 3. 4. T. calycinum I. Talinu
An illustrated flora of the 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 ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 36 PORTULACACEAE. Flowers 4'-8' broad; sepals deciduous. Stamens 10-30 ; capsule globose. Stigma-lobes very short. Stigma-lobes about one-third as long as the style. Stamens only 5 ; capsule oval. Flowers io'-i5' broad; sepals persistent. I. 7'. teretifoliu 1. T. rugospern 3. 4. T. calycinum I. Talinum teretifolium Pursh. Fame-flower. Fig. 1736. Talinum teretifolium Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 365. 1814. Perennial, erect, 4'-i2' high, leafy at the base. Leaves linear, terete, ¥-2' long, about l' wide, the base broad- ened and prolonged posteriorly; scape-like peduncles 1-5, terminal, branched, leafless, slender, bracted at the nodes, 3'-6' long; cymes terminal, loose, the branches ascending or divaricate; flowers pink, 6'-8' broad, opening for a day; sepals membranous, deciduous, ovate, obtuse, 2' long, about half the length of the petals; stamens 10-30; style as long as the stamens; stigma-lobes very short; capsule globose, 2' in diameter; bracts of the cyme ovate or ovate-lanceolate, i' long, prolonged posteriorly. 2. Talinum rugospermum Holzinger. Prairie Talinum. Fig. 1737. T. rugospermum Holzinger, Asa Gray Bull. 7: 117. 1899. Perennial or perhaps biennial, though first described as annual, the root deep, the slender scape-like pedun- cles 10' high or less. Leaves basal, linear, terete, 1-2' long; cymes and petals like those of T. teretifolium, the pink flowers 6'-S' wide, opening late in the after- noon; sepals deciduous; stamens 12-25, the red fila- ments very slender, the anthers short, nearly spherical; lobes of the stigma nearly linear, one-fourth to one- third as long as the style; capsule globose, about 2' in diameter; seeds faintly roughened, but scarcely rougher tha
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