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 . e, becoming prominently ribbed, closed and itsteeth hooked at the ends. Cotyledons convolute; radicle superior. Consists of the follo>ving monotypic genus of easternNorth America, eastern and central Asia. [Name un-explained.] I. PHRYMA L. Sp. PI. 601. 1753. I. Phryma Leptostachya L. 3897. Phyrma Leptostachya L. Sp. PL 601. 1753. Puberulent; stem ii°-3° high, s
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 . e, becoming prominently ribbed, closed and itsteeth hooked at the ends. Cotyledons convolute; radicle superior. Consists of the follo>ving monotypic genus of easternNorth America, eastern and central Asia. [Name un-explained.] I. PHRYMA L. Sp. PI. 601. 1753. I. Phryma Leptostachya L. 3897. Phyrma Leptostachya L. Sp. PL 601. 1753. Puberulent; stem ii°-3° high, somewhat 4-sided,sometimes constricted above the nodes, branchedabove, the branches slender, elongated, ovate, acute or acuminate at the apex, obtuseof narrowed at the base, very thin, coarsely dentate,2-6 long, the lower petioled, the upper often nearlysessile; spikes very narrow. 3-6 long; flowers about3 long, mostly opposite, distant, borne on very shortminutely 2-bracteolate pedicels, at first erect, soonspreading, the calyx, after flowering, abruptly re-flexed against the axis of the spike. In woods and thickets. New Brunswick to Manitoba,Florida and Kansas. Bermuda. Eastern Asia. Genus i. PLANTAIN FAMILY. 245 Family 35. PLANTAGINACEAE Lindl. Nat. Syst. Ed. 2, 267. 1836. Plantain Family. Annual or perennial, mostly acaulescent or short-stemmed, rarely stoloniferousherbs, with basal, or, in the caulescent species, opposite or alternate leaves, andsmall perfect polygamous or monoecious flowers, bracteolate in dense terminallong-scaped spikes or heads, or rarely solitary. Calyx 4-parted, inferior, per-sistent, the segments imbricated. Corolla hypogynous, scarious or membranous,mostly marcescent, 4-lobed. Stamens 4 or 2 (only i in an Andean genus), insertedon the tube or throat of the corolla; filaments filiform, exserted or included;anthers versatile, 2-celled, the sacs longitudinally dehiscent. Ovary sessile, supe-rior, i-2-celled, or falsely 3-4
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