. 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 . 2. Steironema intermedium Kearney. Southern Loosestrife. Fig. 3293. L. ciliata var. loiisa \Vood, Class-book, 505. 1863. Steironema intermedium Kearney, Bull. Torr. Club 21: 263. 1894. 5". Unsum Bicknell; Britt. & Br. III. Fl. 2: 590. 1897. Stem erect, i°-2° high, slender, obtusely 4-angled, glabrous below, minutely glandular- puberulent above. Leaves 2-3' long, io&
. 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 . 2. Steironema intermedium Kearney. Southern Loosestrife. Fig. 3293. L. ciliata var. loiisa \Vood, Class-book, 505. 1863. Steironema intermedium Kearney, Bull. Torr. Club 21: 263. 1894. 5". Unsum Bicknell; Britt. & Br. III. Fl. 2: 590. 1897. Stem erect, i°-2° high, slender, obtusely 4-angled, glabrous below, minutely glandular- puberulent above. Leaves 2-3' long, io"-2o" wide, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute at the apex, obtuse or subcordate at the base, mi- nutely ciliolate, otherwise glabrous, the upper much smaller; petioles slender, glabrous, or ciliate only at the base; panicle open, leafy; pedicels slender, 2-6 times as long as the flow- ers ; calyx-segments lanceolate, verj- acute; corolla 9"-io" broad, its segments cuspidate; capsule shorter than calyx. On dry rocks, Virginia to Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama. June-July. 3. Steironema radicans (Hook.) A. Gra_\. Trailing Loosestrife. Fig. 3294. L. radicans Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i: 177. 1836. S. radicans A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 12: 63. 1876. Stem weak, at first erect, soon decumbent or reclined and often rooting at the joints, very slender, glabrous, much branched, l°-3° long Leaves membranous, pinnately veined, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate at the apex, rounded or narrowed, but not cordate at the base. i'-4' long, i'-i' wide; margins not cilio- late; petioles naked or very sparingly ciliolate, I'-ii' long: peduncles filiform, *'-2' long; calyx- segments ovate or lanceolate, acuminate, about equalling the erose-denticulate corolla-segments; flowers 3"-4" broad; capsule about one-half as long as the calyx. In swamps, Virginia and West Virginia to Arkan- sas and Texas. June-Aug.
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