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 . Virginia. Perhaps not specifically dis-tinct from the preceding. May-Oct. 20. MICRANTHEMUM Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i: 10. pJ. 12. or ascending, branched small leafy annual glabrous herbs, with opposite obovateoval or orbicular sessile entire leaves, and minute white or purplish short-peduncled flowers,solitary in some of the axils. Calyx 4-5-lobed or 4-S-parted. Coro
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 . Virginia. Perhaps not specifically dis-tinct from the preceding. May-Oct. 20. MICRANTHEMUM Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i: 10. pJ. 12. or ascending, branched small leafy annual glabrous herbs, with opposite obovateoval or orbicular sessile entire leaves, and minute white or purplish short-peduncled flowers,solitary in some of the axils. Calyx 4-5-lobed or 4-S-parted. Corolla very irregular, thetube short, the upper lip shorter than the lower, or wanting, the lower 3-lobed, spreading orascending, the middle lobe the largest. Stamens 2, anterior; filaments short, somewhatdilated or appendaged at the base; anthers small, their sacs distinct, parallel, or slightlydivergent. Style short; stigma 2-lobed. Capsules globose, 2-celled by a membranous parti-tion or becoming i-celled. Seeds several or numerous, minute. [Greek, small flower.] About 16 species, natives of America. Besides the following, another occurs in the southernUnited States. Type species : Micranthemum orbiculatnm Micranthemum micranthemoides (Nutt.) Wettst. Fig. 3792. Nuttalls Alicranthemnm.
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