. 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. Genus 4. CAPER FAMILY. 199 4. POLANISIA Raf. Journ. Phys. 89: 98. 1819. Annual branching herbs, mainly glandular-pubescent and exhaling a strong disagreeable odor, with whitish or yellowish flowers, and palmately compound or rarely simple leaves. Sepals 4, lanceolate, deciduous. Petals slender or clawed. Receptacle depressed, bearing a gland at the base of the
. 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. Genus 4. CAPER FAMILY. 199 4. POLANISIA Raf. Journ. Phys. 89: 98. 1819. Annual branching herbs, mainly glandular-pubescent and exhaling a strong disagreeable odor, with whitish or yellowish flowers, and palmately compound or rarely simple leaves. Sepals 4, lanceolate, deciduous. Petals slender or clawed. Receptacle depressed, bearing a gland at the base of the ovary. Stamens 8-co, somewhat unequal. Pod nearly or quite ses- sile on its pedicel, elongated, cylindric or compressed, its valves dehiscent from the summit. Seeds rugose or reticulated. [Greek, very tmequal, referring to the stamens.] A genus of about 30 species, natives of temperate and tropical regions. In addition to the fol- lowing, 2 other species are found in the southern and western parts of North America. Type species: Polanisia graveolens Raf. Stamens equalling or slightly exceeding the petals; flowers 2"-^" long. i. P. graveolens. Stamens much exceeding the petals ; flowers 4"-6" long. 2. P. trachysperma, I. Polanisia graveolens Raf. Clammy- weed. Fig. 2118. Cleome dodecandra Michx. FI. Bor. Am. 2: Z2. 1803. Not. L. 1753. Polanisia graveolens Raf. Am. Journ. Sci. i : 378. 1819. Viscid and glandular-pubescent, branch- ing, 6'-i8' high. Leaves 3-f oliolate, slender- petioled; leaflets oblong, obtuse, entire, 6"-i2" long; sepals purplish, slightly un- equal; petals cuneate, clawed, deeply emar- ginate or obcordate, yellowish-white; sta- mens 9-12, purplish, equalling or slightly exceeding the petals; style about i" long; pod lanceolate-oblong, slightly compressed, I'-ii' long, 3"-4" wide, slightly stipitate, rough, reticulated; seeds rough. Sandy and gravelly shores, western Quebec to Manitoba, Maryland, Tennessee, Kansas an
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