. 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. 1897. Rootstocks slender, scaly, clustered, simple or branched. Leaves 1-3 to each plant or branch, coriaceous, glabrous, orbicular or broadly ovate, rounded at the apex, ii-3' wide, usually mot- tled, the basal sinus open or nearly closed; peti- oles pubescent along one side or glabrous, 3'-?' long,^ ascending; flower short-peduncled, purple, 6"-8" l
. 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. 1897. Rootstocks slender, scaly, clustered, simple or branched. Leaves 1-3 to each plant or branch, coriaceous, glabrous, orbicular or broadly ovate, rounded at the apex, ii-3' wide, usually mot- tled, the basal sinus open or nearly closed; peti- oles pubescent along one side or glabrous, 3'-?' long,^ ascending; flower short-peduncled, purple, 6"-8" long; calyx campanulate to turbinate, nar- rowed at the throat, its tube adnate to the lower part of the ovary, free above, the lobes ovate or nearly semicircular, about one-half as long as the tube; peduncle ¥-¥ long; filaments much shorter than the anthers; anthers not pointed; styles 6, each 2-lobed, the stigmas sessile below the lobes; capsule hemispheric, about 4" high. In rick woods, Virginia arid West Virginia to Geor- gia and South Carolina. May-June. Southern wild ginger. Black snakeweed. Heart-leaf. 3. Hexastylis Memmingeri (Ashe) Small. Memminger's Hexastylis. Fig. 1576. Asarum Memmingeri Ashe, Contr. Herb. 1: 3. 1897. Hexastylis Memmingeri Small; Britton, Man. 348. 1901. Slender. Leaf-blades suborbicular or ovate, ii-3' long, mostly obtuse or retuse, sometimes mottled, with a slightly open sinus; petioles about as long as the blades or much longer; calyx s"-7" long, urn-shaped, the tube more or less constricted at the throat; the segments rarely over I J" long, obtuse; peduncle as long as the calyx or shorter; prolongations of the styles slender, usually deeply cleft; capsule conspicu- ously distending the calyx; seed sharply triangular. In sandy woods, Virginia and West Virginia, south to Georgia. May and June. 4. Hexastylis arifdlia (Michx.) Small. Halberd or Heart-leaved Please note that these images are extracted from scanned pa
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