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; 2nd ed. . lene gallica L. Sp. PI. 417. 1753. .Annual, hirsute-pubescent, stem slender, usually erect,simple or branched, i°-2° high. Leaves spatulate oroblanceolate, 6-2 long, obtuse, sometives mucronate,narrowed into a margined petiole, or the upper onesnarrower and acute; flowers in a terminal simple l-sidedspicate raceme, nearly sessile or the lower ones distantand longer-pe
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; 2nd ed. . lene gallica L. Sp. PI. 417. 1753. .Annual, hirsute-pubescent, stem slender, usually erect,simple or branched, i°-2° high. Leaves spatulate oroblanceolate, 6-2 long, obtuse, sometives mucronate,narrowed into a margined petiole, or the upper onesnarrower and acute; flowers in a terminal simple l-sidedspicate raceme, nearly sessile or the lower ones distantand longer-pedicelled, sometimes all distinctly pedi-celled ; cylindric or oblong-tubular in flower,lo-nerved, villous, 4-$ long, much enlarged by theripening pod and becoming ovoid with a contractedthroat, its teeth lanceolate, spreading; petals toothed,entire or somewhat 2-cleft, white, somewhat longer thanthe calyx. In waste places, Maine to Ontario, southern New York,Pennsylvania and Missouri. Adventive from Europe. Ex-tensively naturalized as a weed on the Pacific Coast, andwidely distributed in nearly all warm-temperate been mistaken for S. nocturna L. April-July. 15. Silene dichotoma Forked Fi iSi=i. Silene dichotoma Ehrh. Beitr. 7: 143. 1792. Silciic racemosa Otth in DC. Prodr. I : 384. 1824. .Annual, erect, branching, pubescent, i°-2° and basal leaves lanceolate or oblanceolate, 2-3 long, acuminate or acute, tapering into a villouspetiole; upper leaves sessile, lanceolate or linear; flow-ers white, sessile or very short-pedicclled, distant inforking l-sidcd spikes; calyx cylindric, 6-S long,hirsute, much enlarged by the ripening pod, its teethovate-lanccolatc, acute; petals white, bifid, with a shortobtuse crown. In fields and waste places, Maine to New Jersey, Pennsyl-vania and Texas. .Also in California. Adventive fromsouthern Europe. Summer.
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