. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 3. Lesquerella argentea (Pursh) MacM. Silvery Bladder-pod. Fig. 2015. Myagrum argenteum Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 434. 1814. Vesicaria argentea DC. Syst. 2: 297. 1821. Lesquerella Ludoviciana S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad, 23:252. 1888. L. argentea MacM. Met. Minn. 263. 1892. Biennial or perennial, tufted, nearly simple. 6'-i8' high, densely stellate-pubescent through- ou
. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 3. Lesquerella argentea (Pursh) MacM. Silvery Bladder-pod. Fig. 2015. Myagrum argenteum Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 434. 1814. Vesicaria argentea DC. Syst. 2: 297. 1821. Lesquerella Ludoviciana S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad, 23:252. 1888. L. argentea MacM. Met. Minn. 263. 1892. Biennial or perennial, tufted, nearly simple. 6'-i8' high, densely stellate-pubescent through- out. Leaves linear, oblong or oblanceolate, the lower 2'-3' long, blunt, entire or sparingly repand-toothed; flowers yellow; petals 3" long; pedicels slender, 8"-i2" long in fruit, spreading or recurved; pod slightly stipitate, stellate-pubescent, globose to oval, 2"-2j" long; style about equalling the pod. Prairies, Minnesota, Nebraska and Kansas to North Dakota, Wyoming and Arizona. May-June. 4. Lesquerella gracilis (Hook.) S. Wats. Slender Bladder-pod. Fig. 2016. Vesicaria gracilis Hook. Bot. Mag. pi. 3533- 1836. L. gracilis S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 23: 253. 1888. Annual, weak, green, stem slender, io'-2o' high, freely branching, sparsely stellate-pubescent. Leaves linear or oblanceolate, the lower slightly petioled, the upper sessile, 9"-2' long, their margins often undulate; flowers yellow; petals about 3" long; pedicels spreading, sometimes l' long in fruit, ascending or upwardly curved; pod globose, glabrous, 2" in diameter, stipitate at the end of the pedicel; style 2" long; seeds several in each cell. Prairies, Missouri and Nebraska to Texas. March- Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934; Brown, Addison, 183
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