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; 2nd ed. . 4. DIPHYLLEIA Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i: 203. 1803. Perennial herbs with horizontal rootstocks, large peltate leaves, and cymose white flow-ers. Sepals 6, petaloid. falling away early. Petals 6, flat. Stamens 6; anthers dehiscent byvalves. Pistil I; ovules few, arranged in 2 rows on one side of the ovary. Fruit a oblong, curved. [Greek, double-leaf.] A genus o
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; 2nd ed. . 4. DIPHYLLEIA Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i: 203. 1803. Perennial herbs with horizontal rootstocks, large peltate leaves, and cymose white flow-ers. Sepals 6, petaloid. falling away early. Petals 6, flat. Stamens 6; anthers dehiscent byvalves. Pistil I; ovules few, arranged in 2 rows on one side of the ovary. Fruit a oblong, curved. [Greek, double-leaf.] A genus of 2 species, the typical one native of eastern North America, the other of Japan. Genus 4. BARBERRY FAMILY. 129. I. Diphylleia cymosa Michx. Umbrella-leaf. Fig. 1959. D, cymosa Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i: 203. 1S03. Erect, stout, i°-2° high, glabrous or nearly soBasal leaves solitary, long-petioled, l°-2° indiameter, peltate near the center, deeply 2-clcft,many-lobed, the lobes acute or acuminate, sharplydentate; cauline leaves 2, similar, smaller, peti-oled, constricted in the middle and generally pel-tate near the margin; cyme many-flowered, s-jbroad; flowers white; petals flat, oblong, obtuse;fruiting pedicels slender, l long or more; berriesblue, globose to oblong, 6 long. In woods. Virginia to Georgia and Tennessee, alongthe mountains, mainly at higher altitudes. May-June. 5. JEFFERSONIA E. S. Barton, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. 3: 342. 1793. Glabrous perennial herbs, with basal palmately-veined or palmately-lobed leaves, andsolitary white flowers borne on slender scapes. Sepals 4, occasionally 3 or 5, petaloid,caducous. Petals 8, flat, longer than the sepals. Stamens 8; filaments slender; anthers
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