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 (jEXLS 4. PURSLANE FAMILY. 39 I. Montia fontana L Water or Blinking Chickweed. Blinks. Water-blinks. Fig. 1743. Monlia fonlana L. Sp. PU 87. 1753- Densely tufted, very green, weak, diffuse or ascending, I'-6' long, freely branching. Leaves opposite, spatulate or obovale, mainly obtuse, 3'-6' long, i' broad or less;
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 (jEXLS 4. PURSLANE FAMILY. 39 I. Montia fontana L Water or Blinking Chickweed. Blinks. Water-blinks. Fig. 1743. Monlia fonlana L. Sp. PU 87. 1753- Densely tufted, very green, weak, diffuse or ascending, I'-6' long, freely branching. Leaves opposite, spatulate or obovale, mainly obtuse, 3'-6' long, i' broad or less; flowers nodding, solitary and terminal or in a small loose leafy-bracted raceme; sepals obtuse, slightly shorter than the ovate-oblong petals; capsule globose, nearly l' in diameter. In springs and wet places, St. Anne des Monts. Quebec; Maine, N'ova Scotia, Xew Brunswick, Labrador, Newfoundland, and across arctic .â \merica, extending south in the mountains to California. .\lso in the .\ndes of South America, in Australasia and in north- ern Europe and Asia. Summer. 5. LIMNIA [L.] Haw. Syn. PI. Succ. 11. 1812. Fibrous-rooted succulent herbs, mostly annual in duration, with basal petioled leaves, and a pair of sessile or connate-perfoliate leaves on the stem below the inflorescence. Flowers pink or white, racemose. Calyx of 2 persistent sepals. Petals 5, distinct and equal. Stamens 5. Ovary 2-3-ovuled. Capsule 3-valved, 2-3-seeded [Greek, referring to the marsh habitat of some species.] Twelve species, or (L.) Haw. ves of North An Type ibirica
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