. 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. 2. Lavauxia brachycarpa (A. Gray) Britton. Short-podded Primrose. Fig. 3060. Oenothera brachycarpa A. Gray, PK Wright, i : 70- 1852. Lavauxia brachycarpa Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 5 : 235. 1894. Low, perennial by a stout root, acaulescent or nearly so, softly canescent. Leaves basal, leathery, ovate to narrowly oblong, 3-9' long, acute or ob- tuse, lyrate-pinnat
. 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. 2. Lavauxia brachycarpa (A. Gray) Britton. Short-podded Primrose. Fig. 3060. Oenothera brachycarpa A. Gray, PK Wright, i : 70- 1852. Lavauxia brachycarpa Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 5 : 235. 1894. Low, perennial by a stout root, acaulescent or nearly so, softly canescent. Leaves basal, leathery, ovate to narrowly oblong, 3-9' long, acute or ob- tuse, lyrate-pinnatifid or sometimes nearly entire; petioles sometimes as long as the blade; flowers yel- low, basal; calyx canescent, its tube 2'-4' long, gradu- ally dilated upward, its segments linear-lanceolate, about one-half as long as the tube, the tips free in the bud; petals I'-iJ' long, undulate; capsules elliptic, 8"-g" long, leathery or corky, the angles very thin, the faces somewhat wrinkled. Montana to Kansas, Texas and New Mexico. July. April-. 14. GAURELLA Small, Bull. Torr. Club 23: 183. i Low perennial canescent or strigillose herbs with wiry diffusely branched stems. Leaves small, narrow, nearly entire or distantly toothed, narrowed into very short petioles. Flowers axillary, sessile. Calyx purplish, its tube cylindric, slightly dilated at the throat, its seg- ments narrow, slightly longer than the tube, their tips united in the bud. Petals obovate, white or pink, spotted or striped with red. Stamens 8, the alternate ones longer; filaments filiform-subulate; anthers linear. Ovary 4-angIed, short; united styles stout, enlarged above; stigmas filiform. Capsules ovoid-pyramidal, sessile, attenuate into a curved beak, sharply 4-angled, the faces swollen. Seeds obovoid, angled, delicately striate. [Diminutive of Gawra.] A monotypic genus of the west-central United Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enh
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