. 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. i. Diapedium brachiatum (Pursh) Kuntze. Diapedium. Fig. 3896. Justicia brachiata Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 13. 1814. Dicliptera brachiata Spreng. Syst. 1: 86. 1825. D. brachiatum Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 485. 1891. Annual (?), glabrate, or pubescent; stem slender, 6-grooved, erect, much branched, l°-2° high. Leaves ovate, membranous, long-petioled, acuminate or acute a
. 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. i. Diapedium brachiatum (Pursh) Kuntze. Diapedium. Fig. 3896. Justicia brachiata Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 13. 1814. Dicliptera brachiata Spreng. Syst. 1: 86. 1825. D. brachiatum Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 485. 1891. Annual (?), glabrate, or pubescent; stem slender, 6-grooved, erect, much branched, l°-2° high. Leaves ovate, membranous, long-petioled, acuminate or acute at the apex, narrowed or rounded at the base, 3'-6' long, 1-3' wide; inflorescence paniculate, the involucres 1-4- flowered, each of 2 oblong or obovate, obtuse or mucronate, opposite bracts; corolla 8"-i2" long, pink or purple, the lips about as long as the slender tube; upper lip 2-3-toothed, the lower entire; capsule oblong, 2"-3" high, a little longer than the involucre, the valves slightly divergent in dehiscence, the placentae remaining attached to their summits. In moist thickets, North Carolina to Florida, Missouri, Kansas and Texas. July-Oct. Family 34. PHRYMACEAE Schauer in DC. Prodr. 11: 520. 1847. Lopseed Family. An erect perennial herb with divaricate branches, opposite membranous simple leaves, and -small irregular purplish flowers, distant in slender elongated spikes. Calyx cylindric, 2-lipped; upper lip 2-cleft, the teeth setaceous; lower lip much shorter, 3-toothed, the teeth subulate. Corolla-tube cylindric, the limb 2-lipped; upper lip erect, concave, emarginate; lower lip larger, spreading, convex,- 3-lobed, the lobes obtuse. Stamens 4, didynamous, included. Ovary oblique, i-celled; ovule 1, orthotropous, ascending; style slender; stigma 2-lobed. Calyx reflexed in fruit, enclosing the dry achene, becoming prominently ribbed, closed and its teeth hooked at the ends. Cotyledons convolute; radicle superior. Consists of the following monotyp
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