. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. 8T9. V. angnstlfolla x %. * * Spikes thicker or densely flowered; the fruits crowded, mostly overlapping one another; bracts inconspicuous, not exceeding the flowers; perennial. 3. V. angustifblia Michx. Low, 2-6 dm. high, often simple ; leaves nar- rowly lanceolate, tapering to the base, sessile, roughish, slightly toothed ; spikes few or single; the purple flowers crowded, larger than in the next. — Dry or sandy ground, Mass. and s. Vt. to Min
. Gray's new manual of botany. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns of the central and northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. Botany. 8T9. V. angnstlfolla x %. * * Spikes thicker or densely flowered; the fruits crowded, mostly overlapping one another; bracts inconspicuous, not exceeding the flowers; perennial. 3. V. angustifblia Michx. Low, 2-6 dm. high, often simple ; leaves nar- rowly lanceolate, tapering to the base, sessile, roughish, slightly toothed ; spikes few or single; the purple flowers crowded, larger than in the next. — Dry or sandy ground, Mass. and s. Vt. to Minn., and southw.; rarely adventive further northeastw. Fio. 879. 4. V. hastau L. (Blue V.) Tall ( m. high); leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, taper- pointed, cut^serrate, petioled, the lower often lobed and sometimes halberd-shaped at base ; spikes linear, erect, corymhed or panioled; flowers violet-blue (rarely pink or white).—Damp grounds, etc. 5. V. stricta Vent. (Hoary V.) Downy with soft whitish hairs, erect, simple or branched, 3-9 dm. high; leaves sessile, obovate or oblong, serratej spikes thick, somewhat clustered, hairy; flowers rather large, purple. — Barrens and prairies, Ont and O., westw. and southw.; rarely nat. eastw. * * * Spikes thick, sessile and leafy-bracted; annual 6. V. bractebsa Michx. Widely spreading or procumbent, hairy; leaver wedge-lanceolate, cut-pinnatifid or 3-cleft, short-petioled; spikes single, tir motely flowered ; bracts large, the lower pinnatifid, longer than the small purple flowers. — Prairies and waste grounds, Va. to O., westw. and southw.; on ballast and in waste places northeastw. § 2. Anthers of the longer stamens glandular- tipped; flowers showy, from depressed- capitate becoming spicate. 7. V. bipinnatifida Nutt. Hispid-hirsute, 1-4 dm. high.; leaves bipinnately parted, or 3-parted into more or less bipinnatifid divi- sions, the lobes commonly linear or broader; bracts mostly surpassing the calyx; limb of bluish
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