. 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. Genus 12. BUNCH-FLOWER FAMILY. 493 1. Oceanorus leimanthoides (A. Gray) Small. Pine-barren Oceanorus. Fig. 1234. Amianthium leimanthoides A. Gray, Ann. Lye. N. Y. 4: 125. 1837. Zygadenus leimanthoides S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14: 280. 1879. Oceanorus leimanthoides Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 252. 1903. Stem slender, i°-4° high, its base sheathed by short leaves which
. 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. Genus 12. BUNCH-FLOWER FAMILY. 493 1. Oceanorus leimanthoides (A. Gray) Small. Pine-barren Oceanorus. Fig. 1234. Amianthium leimanthoides A. Gray, Ann. Lye. N. Y. 4: 125. 1837. Zygadenus leimanthoides S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14: 280. 1879. Oceanorus leimanthoides Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 252. 1903. Stem slender, i°-4° high, its base sheathed by short leaves which soon become fibrous. Leaves 2"-4" wide, green on both sides, often i° long, blunt, or the upper acuminate and much shorter; panicle 4'-i2' long, its branches densely many-flowered, spreading or ascend- ing; bractlets much shorter than the slender pedicels; lower flowers perfect, white or green- ish, about 4" broad; perianth-segments oblong, obtuse, sessile, not clawed, adnate to the very base of the ovary; capsule ovoid, 4" high, much longer than the perianth. In swamps or wet soil, Long Island to Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee, 13. MELANTHIUM L. Sp. PI. 339. 1753. Tall leafy herbs, perennial by thick rootstocks, the stem, at least its upper part, and the inflorescence, pubescent. Leaves narrow, oblanceolate or linear, sheathing or the upper sheath- less. Flowers greenish, white or cream-colored, darker in withering, monoecious or poly- gamous, slender pedicelled in a large terminal panicle. Perianth of 6 spreading separate persistent clawed 2-glandular segments, mostly free from the ovary. Stamens shorter than the segments and adnate to them; anthers cordate or reniform, their sacs confluent. Ovary ovoid; styles 3, subulate, spreading. Capsule 3-lobed, 3-celled, the cavities several-seeded, tipped by the style. Seeds very flat and broadly winged, several in each cavity. [Greek, signifying black flower.] The genus comprises the following
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