. 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. ONAGRACEAE. Vol. II, 4. Rhexia ciliosa Michx. Ciliate Meadow-Beauty. Fig. 3012. Rhexia petiolata Walt. Fl. Car. 130. 1788. (?) Rhexia ciliosa Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i : 221. 1803. Stem square, glabrous, simple or nearly so, l°-2° high. Leaves ascending, ovate, very short-petioled, or sessile, acutish at the apex, mostly rounded at the base, 6"-io" long,
. 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. ONAGRACEAE. Vol. II, 4. Rhexia ciliosa Michx. Ciliate Meadow-Beauty. Fig. 3012. Rhexia petiolata Walt. Fl. Car. 130. 1788. (?) Rhexia ciliosa Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i : 221. 1803. Stem square, glabrous, simple or nearly so, l°-2° high. Leaves ascending, ovate, very short-petioled, or sessile, acutish at the apex, mostly rounded at the base, 6"-io" long, 4"-6" wide, 3-nerved, glabrous or nearly so beneath, pubescent with a few scattered hairs above, the margins bristly-ciliate; cyme few-flowered; flowers very short- pedicelled, violet-purple, I'-ii' broad; calyx glabrous, or with a few hairs on its lobes; petals rounded, sometimes apiculate; anthers oblong, straight, back not spurred. In swamps, Maryland to Florida and Louisiana. June-Aug. Family 98. Anal. ONAGRACEAE Dumort Fam. 36. 1829.* ra^r^ Evening-primrose Family. Annual or perennial herbs, rarely shrubs, with alternate or opposite leaves, no stipules or mere glands in their places, and axillary spicate or racemose gen- erally perfect regular or sometimes irregular flowers. Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, often prolonged beyond it, the limb 2-6-lobed (usually 4-lobed). Petals 2-9 (usually 4), convolute in the bud, rarely none. Stamens usually as many or twice as many as the petals, inserted with them on the summit of the calyx-tube, or on the epigynous or perigynous disk. Ovary i-6-celled (usually 4-celled); styles united; stigma capitate, discoid or 4-!obed; ovules 00 in each cavity, gener- ally anatropous. Fruit a capsule or small nut. Seeds mostly small; endosperm very little or none; embryo straight. About forty genera and 400 species of wide geographic distribution, most abundant in America. I. Floral whorls of 4 parts or more. A. Fruit a many-seeded caps
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