. 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 . 6. Kneiffia pvimila (L.) Spach. Small Sun- drops. Fig. 3054. Oenothera pumila L. Sp. PI. Ed, 2. 493. 1762, Oenothera chrysantha Michx. Fl Bor. .^m. i : 225. 1803 Kneiffia pumila Spach, Hist. Veg. 4: 377. 1835. Erect, branched or simple, finely puberulent. 8-2° high. Leaves oblanceolate or oblong, obtuse or obtusish at the apex, narrowed at the base and often petioled, entire


. 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 . 6. Kneiffia pvimila (L.) Spach. Small Sun- drops. Fig. 3054. Oenothera pumila L. Sp. PI. Ed, 2. 493. 1762, Oenothera chrysantha Michx. Fl Bor. .^m. i : 225. 1803 Kneiffia pumila Spach, Hist. Veg. 4: 377. 1835. Erect, branched or simple, finely puberulent. 8-2° high. Leaves oblanceolate or oblong, obtuse or obtusish at the apex, narrowed at the base and often petioled, entire or very nearly so, 1-2' long, 2"-4" wide, usually glabrous; the basal ones broader and shorter: flowers in terminal, leafy-bracted spikes, yellow, diurnal, 4"-i2" broad; calyx-tube shorter than the ovary, the lobes linear-lanceolate, reflexed; petals obcordate; capsule sessile or short-stalked, glabrous, club-shaped, 3"-6" long, the body obovoid, somewhat wing-angled. In dry soil. Newfoundland to Manitoba, south to Xew Jersey. Georgia and Wisconsin ; apparently erroneously re- corded from Kansas. Ascends to 2200 ft. in Virginia June-Aug


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