. 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. Botany. 4. FROELICHIA Moench, IMeth. 50. 1794. Annual, erect woolly or silky, branching or simple herbs, with opposite sessile entire or slightly undulate narrow leaves, or the lower and basal ones contracted into petioles. Flow- ers perfect, 3-bracted, often bracteolate, in panicled dense spikes. Calyx tubular, nearly terete, 5-cleft or 5-toothcd, very woolly, its tube longi
. 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. Botany. 4. FROELICHIA Moench, IMeth. 50. 1794. Annual, erect woolly or silky, branching or simple herbs, with opposite sessile entire or slightly undulate narrow leaves, or the lower and basal ones contracted into petioles. Flow- ers perfect, 3-bracted, often bracteolate, in panicled dense spikes. Calyx tubular, nearly terete, 5-cleft or 5-toothcd, very woolly, its tube longitudinally crested and sometimes tuber- cled in fruit. Stamens S, their filaments united into a tube, which is 5-cleft at the summit and bears the i-celled anthers between its lobes. Ovary ovoid; style slender or wanting; stigma capitate or peniciliate. Utricle indehiscent, enclosed by the tube of united filaments. [Name in honor of J. A. Froelich, a German botanist.] About 12 species, all American. Besides the following, 2 others occur in the Southwestern States. Type species : Gomphrena inlerrupta L. Stout, 2°-4° tall; crests of fruiting calyx continuous, dentate. i. F. campeslris. Slender, io'-2o' tall; crests of fruiting calyx interrupted. 2. F. gracilis. I. Froelichia campestris Small. Prairie Froe- lichia. Fig. 1674. Froelichia campeslris Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 397. 1903. Stem stout, woolly, 2''-4° tall, the branches slender, erect-ascending, leafless above. Upper leaves linear or Hncar-oblong, sessile, acute or acuminate at both ends, i'-3' long, the lower spatulate or oblanceolate, obtuse or acute at the apex, s'-6' long, i'-i' wide, narrowed into margined petioles; spikes mostly opposite, narrowly ovoid or oblong, obtuse or subacute, J'-i' long; fruiting calyx with prominent longitudinal wing-like toothed crests. In dry soil. Illinois and Minnesota to Nebraska and Colo- rado, Tennessee, Kansas and Texas. June-Sept. Froelichia floridana (Nutt.) Moq. in which this was in
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