. 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. 3. Specularialeptocarpa (Xutt.) A. \enus Looking-glass. Fig. 4026. Campylocera leptocarpa Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. See.(.II.; 8: 257. 1843. S. leptocarpa A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 11: 82. 1876. L. leptocarpa Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 5: 309. 1894. Hirsute, or nearly glabrous; stem slender, simple,or branched from the base, 6-i5 high. Leaveslinear-lanceolate to oblong
. 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. 3. Specularialeptocarpa (Xutt.) A. \enus Looking-glass. Fig. 4026. Campylocera leptocarpa Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. See.(.II.; 8: 257. 1843. S. leptocarpa A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 11: 82. 1876. L. leptocarpa Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 5: 309. 1894. Hirsute, or nearly glabrous; stem slender, simple,or branched from the base, 6-i5 high. Leaveslinear-lanceolate to oblong, sessile, not clasping, acuteat both ends, or the lowest obtuse at the apex, entireor sparingly denticulate, ¥-1 long, i-2 wide;flowers sessile and usually solitary in the axils, thelater ones with 4-5 subulate calyx-lobes and a rotatecorolla s-g broad, the earlier ones with 3 shortercalyx-lobes and rudimentary corolla; capsule linear-cylindric, 4-8 long, less than i thick; the upper atlength opening near the summit; seeds oblong. In dry soil, western Missouri and Kansas to Montana,Colorado and Texas. May-Aug, Genus 3 BELLFLOWER FAMILY. 299. 3. JASIONE L. Sp. PI. 928. 1753. Herbs, the flowers in terminal heads subtended by a many-leaved involucre. Calyx-tubecampanulate, adnate to the ovary, the limb 5-divided. Corolla at first tubular, splitting laterto the base into 5 linear or linear-oblanceolate segments. Filaments subulate. Anthers unitedat the base, free above. Ovary inferior, 2-celled; stigma club-shaped. Capsule 2-celled,dehiscent by two terminal pores. [Greek name of somemedicinal plant.] Five species of central Europe and the Mediterranean Re-gion, the following typical. I. Jasione montana L, Sheeps-bit. Fig. 4027. Jasione montana L. Sp. PI. 928. 1753. Annual or biennial, with several stems from a simpleroot; stems 6-i2 high, branched above, leafy below, de-cumbent, erect or ascending, the branches linear, rough-hairy, sessile; flowers in long-pedun-
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