. A spring flora for high schools. Botany. 104 PRIMULACEAE (PRIMROSE FAMILY) V. pennsylvanicum. Low Blueberry. Low shrubs, 2-6 dm. high, the green warty stems and branches glabrous; leaves lanceolate or oblong, serrulate with bristle-pointed teeth, bright green, smooth and shining both sides; corolla cylindric bell-shaped; berries usually bluish-black and glaucous. Dry ground. V. vacillans, Blueberry. Low, 3-9 dm. high, glab- rous, with yellowish branchlets; leaves obovate or oval, very pale or dull, glaucous at least beneath, entire or minutely serrulate; calyx usually reddish; corolla urn- s
. A spring flora for high schools. Botany. 104 PRIMULACEAE (PRIMROSE FAMILY) V. pennsylvanicum. Low Blueberry. Low shrubs, 2-6 dm. high, the green warty stems and branches glabrous; leaves lanceolate or oblong, serrulate with bristle-pointed teeth, bright green, smooth and shining both sides; corolla cylindric bell-shaped; berries usually bluish-black and glaucous. Dry ground. V. vacillans, Blueberry. Low, 3-9 dm. high, glab- rous, with yellowish branchlets; leaves obovate or oval, very pale or dull, glaucous at least beneath, entire or minutely serrulate; calyx usually reddish; corolla urn- shaped, greenish-yellow, often tinged with red; berries blue, with a bloom. Dry ground. V. corymbosum. Swamp Blueberry. Shrubs 1-4 ffl. high; leaves ovate to elliptic-lanceolate, entire, smooth or somewhat pubescent beneath, half-grown at flower- ing time; corolla urn-shaped, white or pinkish; berries blue-black; with a bloom. Swamps and low woods. FBIMTJLACEAE (Primrose Family) Herbs, with simple leaves, regular flowers, stamens as many as the lobes of the sympetalous corolla, and opposite them, and a i-celled ovary with a central free placenta. LYSIMACHIA Leafy-stemmed perennials, with entire and dotted leaves. Corolla wheel-shaped, with entire divisions. Filaments mona- delphous at base or distinct. L. thjrrsiflora. Tufted Loosestrife. Smooth, or pubescent above when young; stem simple, becoming 8 dm. high; leaves opposite, the lowest scale-like, the others lanceolate; spike-like or head-like clusters of small, light yellow flowers in the axils of the middle leaves; corolla deeply 5-7 parted into linear, purplish-dotted divisions; fila- ments distinct. Swamps. May to July,. Lysimachia ihyrsifiorOf Tufted Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Cowles, Henry Chandler, 1869-1939; Coulte
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