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 CAPPARIDACEAE. 2. CRISTATELLA Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phil. 7: 85. pi. 9. 1834. Annual viscid glandular-pubescent herbs, with digitately 3-foliolate leaves, and small white or yellowish flowers in terminal bracted racemes. Sepals spreading, slightly imited at the base. Petals 4, laciniate or fimbriate at the summit, born
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 CAPPARIDACEAE. 2. CRISTATELLA Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phil. 7: 85. pi. 9. 1834. Annual viscid glandular-pubescent herbs, with digitately 3-foliolate leaves, and small white or yellowish flowers in terminal bracted racemes. Sepals spreading, slightly imited at the base. Petals 4, laciniate or fimbriate at the summit, borne on long slender claws, the 2 lower smaller than the 2 upper. Receptacle short, with a short petaloid nectary between the ovary and the upper sepal. Stamens 6-14; filaments slender, declined. Ovary stalked, also declined. Capsule linear, nearly terete, many-seeded. [Diminutive of crislatus, crested, referring to the lacinitale petals.] A genus of 2 species natives of the south-central United States. Type species: CnstalcUa Cristatella Jamesii T. &; G. James' Cristatella. Fig. 2116. Cristatella Jan : G. Fl. N. A. 1838. Erect, slender, branching, 6-15' high. Leaves slender-petioled; leaflets nearly sessile, linear or linear-oblong, longer than the petiole, entire, obtuse, 4'-!2' long; flowers slender-pedicelled, whitish or yellowish, the pedicels diverging; bracts mostly 3-foliolate; claws of the larger petals lh'-2i' long; sepals acute or obtusish; pod ascending, much longer than its stipe and somewhat longer than the pedicel. In dry soil, Iowa to Nebraska, Colorado, Louisi- ana and Texas. Reported from Illinois. June-Dec. CLEOMELLA DC. Prodr. i: 237. 1824. Annual glabrous branchmg erect or diffuse herbs, with small yellow flowers and 3-folio- late leaves. of 4 sepals. Petals 4, sessile, not clawed. Receptacle short, glandless. Stamens 6, inserted on the receptacle. Ovary short, long-stalked. Capsule short, rhomboid or trapezoid, often broader than long, 4-10-seeded. [
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