. 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. Botany. PRIMULACEAE. 4. Steironema lanceolatum (Walt.) A. Gray. Fig. 3295- Lance-leaved Lysimachia lanceolata Walt. Fl. Car. 92. 1788. L. hybrida Michx. FI. Bor. Am. i: 126. 1803. Steironema lanceolatum A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 12: 63. 1876. Stem erect, slender, glabrous, simple or branched, 6-3° high. Leaves lanceolate, linear or oblong-lanceolate, petioled or
. 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. Botany. PRIMULACEAE. 4. Steironema lanceolatum (Walt.) A. Gray. Fig. 3295- Lance-leaved Lysimachia lanceolata Walt. Fl. Car. 92. 1788. L. hybrida Michx. FI. Bor. Am. i: 126. 1803. Steironema lanceolatum A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 12: 63. 1876. Stem erect, slender, glabrous, simple or branched, 6-3° high. Leaves lanceolate, linear or oblong-lanceolate, petioled or nearly sessile, membranous, pinnately veined, acute or acumi- nate at the apex, usually narrowed at the base, I'-5' long, 2"-io" wide, the margins naked or ciliate; lower leaves shorter, often oblong or nearly orbicular; petioles 2"-8" long, naked or ciliate; peduncles slender or filiform, Â¥-iÂ¥ long; lanceolate, acute or acuminate, nearly as long as or exceeding the erose and cuspidate-pointed corolla-segments; flowers 5"-9" broad; capsule nearly as long as the calj'x-segments. In moist soil, Maine to North Dakota, south to Florida, Louisiana and Arizona. June-Aug. Con- sists, apparently, of several races, regarded by some authors as species, which differ in width of leaves, length of petioles, length and shape of staminodes. 5. Steironema quadriflorum (Sims') Hitchc. Prairie IMoneywort. Linear-leaved Loosestrife. Fig. 3296. L. giiadriflora Sims, Bot. Mag. /â /. 660. 1803. L. tongifolia Pursh, FI. Am. Sept. 135. 1814. Steironema longifolium A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 12: 63. 1876. Steironema quadrifiorum Hitchc. Trans. St. Louis Acad. 5 : 506. 1891. Stem erect, strict, glabrous, simple or little branched, 4-sided, 6'-3° high. Stem-leaves all but the lowest sessile or very nearly so, firm, narrowly linear, i-nerved, the lateral veins obscure, acute or acuminate at both ends, i'-^' long, i"-2*" wide, usyally with
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