. 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. Botany. Linum Lewisii Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. jio. 1814. Linum perenne var Lewisii Eat & Wright X A. Bot. Perennial by a woody root, i°-2° high, glabrous, glaucous, densely tufted, simple up to the cymose inflorescence. Leaves crowded, oblong or Hnear, 3"-2o" long, l"-2" wide, acute or acutish, 3-5- nerved; flowers blue, I'-i*' broad; sepals oval, mainly
. 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. Botany. Linum Lewisii Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. jio. 1814. Linum perenne var Lewisii Eat & Wright X A. Bot. Perennial by a woody root, i°-2° high, glabrous, glaucous, densely tufted, simple up to the cymose inflorescence. Leaves crowded, oblong or Hnear, 3"-2o" long, l"-2" wide, acute or acutish, 3-5- nerved; flowers blue, I'-i*' broad; sepals oval, mainly obtuse, one-third or one-fourth the length of the petals; stigmas shorter than the styles; cap- sule broadly ovoid, 2-3 times as long as the calyx, obtuse, incompletely lo-celled, dehiscent, the septa ciliate. Prairies, Manitoba to South Dakota, Wisconsin, Texas, Arizona, Utah and Alaska. Prairie-flax. Summer. The European L. perenne otherwise nearly id tical with this species, differs flowers. 2. CATHARTOLINUM Reichb. Handb. 307. 1837. .\nnual or perennial often paniculately or corymbosely branched lierbs. Leaves alter- nate or occasionallv opposite, without stipules but sometimes with stipular glands, mostly narrow, entire or serrulate, sometimes ciliate or glandular-margined. Sepals 5, persistent or deciduous, all of them or only the inner ones with gland-tipped teeth Petals S, yellow or white, unappendaged but sometimes pubescent within near the entire base. Stamens 5; fila- ments united at the base, the free portions abruptly or gradually dilated at the base, not accompanied by staminodia, or rarely with a short staminodium in each sinus. Gynoecium 5-carpellary. or rarely 2-carpellary, sometimes cartilaginous at the base: styles filiform, dis- tinct or united: «tigmas distinct, terminal, capitate. Capsule ovoid or depressed, S-celled, or ing heterogonous. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for r
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