. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 4. Tradescantia virginiana L. Spider- wort. Trinity. Fig. 1157. Tradescantia virginiana L. Sp. PI. 288. 1753. Glabrous or slightly pubescent, succulent, glau- cous or green, stems stout, 8'-3° tall. Leaves more or less channeled, or in some forms nearly flat, linear or linear-lanceolate, long-acuminate, often more than 1° long, 4"-i' wide; bracts folia- ce
. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 4. Tradescantia virginiana L. Spider- wort. Trinity. Fig. 1157. Tradescantia virginiana L. Sp. PI. 288. 1753. Glabrous or slightly pubescent, succulent, glau- cous or green, stems stout, 8'-3° tall. Leaves more or less channeled, or in some forms nearly flat, linear or linear-lanceolate, long-acuminate, often more than 1° long, 4"-i' wide; bracts folia- ceous, commonly rather wider and shorter' than the leaves; umbels solitary and terminal or rarely 2-4, loosely several-many-flowered; pedicels gla- brous or pubescent, slender; flowers blue or pur- plish, rarely white, i'-a' broad, very showy; sepals oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, gla- brous or pubescent, 4"-io" long, much longer than the capsule. In rich soil, mostly in woods and thickets, south- ern New York to Ohio and South Dakota, south to Virginia, Kentucky and Arkansas. Escaped from cultivation farther north. Ascends to 4000 ft. in Virginia. Spider-lily. May-Aug. 5. Tradescantia reflexa Raf. Reflexed Spiderwort. Fig. 1158. Tradescantia reflexa Raf. Atl. Journ. 150. 1832. Perennial, glabrous, glaucous. Stems erect, l°-3° tall, nearly straight, commonly much branched; leaves linear, 8'-2o' long, straight, or somewhat curved, long-attenuate; sheaths large, 5"-is" long; involucres of 2 unequal finally reflexed leaf-like bracts; umbel-like cymes usually dense at maturity; pedicels slender, io"-i3" long, recurved; sepals ob- long or elliptic, apparently lanceolate by the involute edges, 4'-5" long, hooded, mostly with a tuft of hairs at the apex; corolla blue or red, io"-is" broad, the petals suborbicular; capsule ovoid to oblong, 2V-3" long, glabrous. In sandy or clayey soil, Ohio to Minnesota, Florida and Tex
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