. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 70 CARYOPHYLLACEAE. Vol. 5. Lychnis Drummondii (Hook.) S. Wats. Drummond's Pink. Fig. 1821. Silene Drummondii Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. i ; 1830. L. Drummondii S. Wats. Bot. King's Exp. 37. 1871. Erect from a perennial root, simple or spar- ingly branched, finely glandular-pubescent and viscid, i°-3° high. Leaves oblanceolate or linear, acute, narrowed into a mar
. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 70 CARYOPHYLLACEAE. Vol. 5. Lychnis Drummondii (Hook.) S. Wats. Drummond's Pink. Fig. 1821. Silene Drummondii Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. i ; 1830. L. Drummondii S. Wats. Bot. King's Exp. 37. 1871. Erect from a perennial root, simple or spar- ingly branched, finely glandular-pubescent and viscid, i°-3° high. Leaves oblanceolate or linear, acute, narrowed into a margined petiole or the upper sessile, I'-^V long; flowers few, slender- pedicelled, white or purplish, 6"-io" long; petals scarcely longer than the tubular calyx, entire or emarginate at the apex, narrower than the au- ricled claw; capsule oblong-cylindric, 6"-8" long; seeds tuberculate. In dry soil, Nebraska to Minnesota, Manitoba, west to California and Oregon. June-July. 6. Lychnis apetala L. Nodding Lychnis. Fig. 1822. Lychnis apetala L. Sp. PI. 437. 1753. Tufted, arctic or alpine, perennial, 3'-8' high, glandu- lar-pubescent at least above. Stems i-flowered; leaves linear or oblanceolate, \'-2.\' long, i"-3" wide, sessile, or the lower narrowed into a petiole; flower nodding, 6"-8" long; petals narrow, 2-cleft, included in the calyx; calyx inflated, strongly purple-veined, its teeth triangular-ovate, acute; petals narrow, about i" wide, minutely appendaged, equalling or shorter than the calyx, deeply 2-cleft; capsule erect, ovoid, 4" in diameter. Labrador and throughout arctic America. Also in arctic and alpine Europe and Asia. 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 Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934; Brown, Addison, 1830-1913. New York
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