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 . ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 Cristatella Jan : G. Fl. N. A. 1838. Erect, slender, branching, 6-15' high. Leaves slender-petioled; leaflets nearly sessile, linear or linear-oblong, longer than the petiole, entire, obtuse, 4'-!2' long; flowers slender-pedicelled, whitish or yellowish, the pedicels diverging; bracts mostly 3-foliolate; claws of the larger petals lh'-2i' lo
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 . ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 Cristatella Jan : G. Fl. N. A. 1838. Erect, slender, branching, 6-15' high. Leaves slender-petioled; leaflets nearly sessile, linear or linear-oblong, longer than the petiole, entire, obtuse, 4'-!2' long; flowers slender-pedicelled, whitish or yellowish, the pedicels diverging; bracts mostly 3-foliolate; claws of the larger petals lh'-2i' long; sepals acute or obtusish; pod ascending, much longer than its stipe and somewhat longer than the pedicel. In dry soil, Iowa to Nebraska, Colorado, Louisi- ana and Texas. Reported from Illinois. June-Dec. CLEOMELLA DC. Prodr. i: 237. 1824. Annual glabrous branchmg erect or diffuse herbs, with small yellow flowers and 3-folio- late leaves. of 4 sepals. Petals 4, sessile, not clawed. Receptacle short, glandless. Stamens 6, inserted on the receptacle. Ovary short, long-stalked. Capsule short, rhomboid or trapezoid, often broader than long, 4-10-seeded. [Diminutive of deomc] A genus of about 8 species, natives of southwestern North America, extending into Mexico. Type species : Cleomella mexicana DC. Cleomella angustifolia Torr. Xorlhern Cleo- mella. Fig. 2117. Cleomella angustifolia Torn; A. Gray, PI. Wright 1852. Generally erect, i°-ii° high, branching above. Leaf- lets linear-lanceolate or linear-oblong, longer than the petiole; bracts linear, simple; flowers yellow, 2'-3' broad; pedicels very slender, ¥ long in fruit; pod flattened, rhomboid, 2'-3' broad, about 2' high, pointed, raised on a very slender stipe 2'-4' long, its valves alrnost conic; placentae persistent after the valves fall away, each bearing about 3 seeds. Nebraska and Colorado to Texa
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