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 . pecies: Leptodactylon cali-fornicum H, & A. I. Leptodactylon caespitosum Nutt. Tufted Sharp-leaved Gilia. Fig. 3479. L. caespitosum Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phila. II. i : 157. 1847. Gilia pungeiis caespitosa A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 8 ;268. 1870. Gilia caespitosa A. Nelson, Bull. Torr. Club 25: Not A. Gray. ^luch branched and tufted from a thick buriedwoody base, 3-s high
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 . pecies: Leptodactylon cali-fornicum H, & A. I. Leptodactylon caespitosum Nutt. Tufted Sharp-leaved Gilia. Fig. 3479. L. caespitosum Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phila. II. i : 157. 1847. Gilia pungeiis caespitosa A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 8 ;268. 1870. Gilia caespitosa A. Nelson, Bull. Torr. Club 25: Not A. Gray. ^luch branched and tufted from a thick buriedwoody base, 3-s high. Leaves densely fascicledand imbricated, 3-5-parted, 4 long or less, the seg-ments subulate, spinulose-tipped, glabrous, or themargins ciliate; bases of the old leaves persistent;calyx about half as long as the corolla-tube, 4-lobed,the lobes subulate; corolla white or 3^ellowish, sal-verform, the tube about 6 long, the limb 4-lobed:stamens 4. Dry bluffs, western Nebraska and Wyoming. June-Sept. Leptodactylon pungens Nutt. iGilia piingens (Torr.) Benth.], of western North America, illus-trated in our first edition, where the above species was regarded as a variety of it, is not knownto occur within our Genus PHLOX FAMILY. 63 5. POLEMONIUM [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. 162. 1753. Perennial or rarely annual herbs, with alternate pinnate membranous leaves, and mostlylarge cymose-paniculate or thyrsoid flowers. Calyx herbaceous, not angled nor ribbed, cam-panulate, 5-cleft to about the middle, accrescent in fruit, the segments lanceolate or ovate,entire, erect or connivent over the capsule. Corolla tubular-campanulate or funnelform,rarely rotate, blue, white or yellow, the limb 5-lobed. Stamens about equally inserted nearthe base of the corolla, dechned, the filaments slender, often pilose at the base. Ovary ovoid;ovules few or several in each cavit}. Capsule ovoid, obtuse, 3-valved. Seeds wingless, ornarrowly winged, mucilaginous and emitting spiral threads when wetted. [Name notexp
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