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 Genus 4. CAPER 1-AMILV. 199 4. POLANISIA Raf. Journ. Phys. 89: 98. 1819. Annual branching herbs, mainly glandular-pubescent and exhaling a strong disagreeable odor, with whitish or yellowish flowers, and palmately compound or rarely simple leaves. Sepals 4, lanceolate, deciduous. Petals slender or clawed. Receptacle
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 Genus 4. CAPER 1-AMILV. 199 4. POLANISIA Raf. Journ. Phys. 89: 98. 1819. Annual branching herbs, mainly glandular-pubescent and exhaling a strong disagreeable odor, with whitish or yellowish flowers, and palmately compound or rarely simple leaves. Sepals 4, lanceolate, deciduous. Petals slender or clawed. Receptacle depressed, bearing a gland at the base of the ovary. Stamens 8-«J, somewhat unequal. Pod nearly or quite ses- sile on its pedicel, elongated, cylindric or compressed, its valves dehiscent from the summit. Seeds rugose or reticulated. [Greek, very unequal, referring to the stamens.] A genus of about 30 species, natives of temperate and tropical regions. In addition to the fol- lowing, 2 other species are found in the southern and western parts of North America. Type species: Polanisia graveolens Raf. Stamens equalling or slightly exceeding the petals; flowers 2'-3' long. i. Stamens much exceeding the petals ; flowers 4'-6' long. 2. P. trachysferma. I. Polanisia graveolens Raf. Clammy- weed. Fig. 2118. Cleome dodecandra Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 32. 1803. Xot. L. 1753. Polanisia graveolens Raf. Am. Journ. Sci. i: 378. 1819. Viscid and glandular-pubescent, branch- ing, 6'-i8' high. Leaves 3-foliolate, slender- petioled; leaflets oblong, obtuse, entire, 6'-i2' long; sepals purplish, slightly un- equal; petals , clawed, deeply emar- ginate or obcordate, yellowish-white; sta- mens 9-12, purplish, equalling or slightly the petals; style about i' long; pod lanceolate-oblong, slightly compressed, I'-lJ' long, 3'-4' wide, slightly stipitate, rough, reticulated; seeds rough. Sandy and gravelly shores, western Quebec to Manitoba, Maryland, Tennessee. Kansas
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