. 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 . 5. Lychnis Drummondii (Hook.) S. Wats Drummond's Pink. Fig. 1821. •idii Hook. Fl. Bo L. Dr 3ot. King's Exp. 37. 1871 Erect from a perennial root, simple or spar- ingly branched, finely glandular-pubescent and viscid, i°-3° high. Leaves oblanceolate or linear, acute, narrowed into a margined petiole or the upper sessile, I'-^V long; flowers few, slender- pedicelled, white or
. 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 . 5. Lychnis Drummondii (Hook.) S. Wats Drummond's Pink. Fig. 1821. •idii Hook. Fl. Bo L. Dr 3ot. King's Exp. 37. 1871 Erect from a perennial root, simple or spar- ingly branched, finely glandular-pubescent and viscid, i°-3° high. Leaves oblanceolate or linear, acute, narrowed into a margined petiole or the upper sessile, I'-^V long; flowers few, slender- pedicelled, white or purplish, 6"-io" long; petals scarcely longer than the tubular calyx, entire or emarginate at the , narrower than the au- ricled claw; capsule oblong-cylindric, 6"-8" long; seeds tuberculate. In dry soil, Nebraska to Minnesota, Manitoba, to California and Oregon. June-July. 6. Lychnis apetala L. Nodding Lychnis. Fig. 1822. Lyclmis apclala L. Sp. PI. 437. 1753. Tufted, arctic or alpine, perennial, 3'-8' high, glandu- lar-pubescent at least above. Stems i-flowered; leaves linear or oblanceolate, l'-2l' long, i"-3" wide, sessile, or the lower narrowed into a petiole; flower nodding, 6"-8" long; petals narrow, 2-cleft, included in the calyx; calyx inflated, strongly purple-veined, its teeth triangular-ovate, acute; petals narrow, about i" wide, minutely appendaged, equalling or shorter than the calyx, deeply 2-cleft; capsule erect, ovoid, 4" in diameter. Labrador and throughout arctic America. Also in and alpine Europe and Asia. Summer.
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