. 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 . 3. Dryas Drummondii Richards. Drum- mond's Mountain Avens. Fig. 2286. Dryas Drnminondii Richards.; Hook. Bot. Mag. pi. 2972. 1830. Dryas oclofctala var. Drummondii S. Wats. Bibliog. Similar to D. octof>etala, the leaves crenate-dentate, but generally narrowed at the base. Scape floccose- pubescent, often taller; flower yellow, about 9" broad; sepals ovate, acutish, b
. 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 . 3. Dryas Drummondii Richards. Drum- mond's Mountain Avens. Fig. 2286. Dryas Drnminondii Richards.; Hook. Bot. Mag. pi. 2972. 1830. Dryas oclofctala var. Drummondii S. Wats. Bibliog. Similar to D. octof>etala, the leaves crenate-dentate, but generally narrowed at the base. Scape floccose- pubescent, often taller; flower yellow, about 9" broad; sepals ovate, acutish, black glandular- pubescent. On gravel. Gaspe, Quebec; Anticosti and Labrador, throughout arctic America; south in the Rocky Moun- tains to Montana and to Oregon. June-.^ug. 27. CERCOCARPUS Nov. Gen. et Sp. 6: 232. 1823. Shrubs or small trees, with alternate simple petioled coriaceous dentate or entire, stipu- late, prominently straight-veined leaves, and short-pedicelled or sessile, solitary or clustered, axillary or terminal, perfect flowers. Calyx narrowly tubular, persistent, contracted at the throat, 5-lobed. Petals none. Stamens 15-25, inserted in 2 or 3 rows on the limb of the calyx; filaments very short; anthers oval, often pubescent. Ovary I, terete, slender, included in the calyx-tube, ripening into a villous achene; style filiform, villous, persistent, plumose and elongated in fruit; stigma obtuse; ovule soli- tary, nearly erect. Seed linear, its testa membra- nous. [Greek, tailed-fruit.] About 10 and Mexico. I. Cercocarpus montanus Raf. Small-leaved Cercocarpus. Fig. 2287. Cercocarpus montanus Raf. Atl. .lourn. 146. 1832-33. Cercocarpus parvifolius Nutt.; H. & A. Bot. Beechey Voy. 337- 1841. A low branching shrub. Leaves obovate or oval, coriaceous, obtuse at the apex, cuneate or some- times rounded at the base, short-petioled, dentate, silky-pubescent or canescent below, sparingly so or glabrous above, 6"-i2" long, 3"-8" broad; f
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