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 8. Polygala incarnata L. Pink Milkwort. Fig. 2702. Polygala L. Sp. PI. -( Annual, erect, glabrous, glaucous, very slender, l°-2° high, simple, or sparingly branched. Basal leaves none; stem-leaves alternate, distant, linear or subulate, sessile, i'-6' long, rarely wanting; spike terminal, dense', I'-li' long, 2'-4'
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 8. Polygala incarnata L. Pink Milkwort. Fig. 2702. Polygala L. Sp. PI. -( Annual, erect, glabrous, glaucous, very slender, l°-2° high, simple, or sparingly branched. Basal leaves none; stem-leaves alternate, distant, linear or subulate, sessile, i'-6' long, rarely wanting; spike terminal, dense', I'-li' long, 2'-4' thick; pedicels i' or less long; bracts minute or none: flowers pink or rose, 5'-6' long; corolla-tube ver>' slender, 3'-4' long. 2-5 times the length of the wings, its keel prominently crested; wings cuspidate; seed hairy, the caruncle-lobes enveloping its beaked extremity. In dry soil, southern Ontario to Wisconsin, New Jersey, Florida, Arkansas and Mexico. Procession- or rogation-flower. Summer. 9. Polygala viridescens L. Field or Purple Milkwort. Fig. 2703. Polygala viridescens L. Sp. PI. 705. 1753. Polygala sanguinea L. Sp. PI. 705. 1753. Erect, 6-15' high, annual, glabrous, branching above, leafy. Stem somewhat angled; basal leaves none; stem-leaves oblong, or linear-oblong, 8'-is' long, i'-2' wide, obtuse or acute, mucronulate; heads globose, becoming oval, 4'-6' thick, obtuse; pedicels about i' long; flowers rose-purple, green- ish, or sometimes white; wings sessile, sometimes slightly cordate, ovate, exceeding the pod; bracts generally persistent on the elongating axis; seed obovoid. hairy, about the length of the caruncle; crest minute. In fields and meadows, Nova Scotia to southern On- tario, North Carolina. Minnesota. Kansas. Arkansas and Louisiana. June-Sept. The contrast between the green-flowered and purple-flowered forms is striking where the two grow together. Strawberry-tassel. 29
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