. 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 . POLYGALACEAE. Vol. II. i6. Polygala paucifolia Willd. Fringed Milkwort. Flowering Wintergreen. Gay-wings. Fig. 2710. Polygala paucifolia Willd. Sp. PI. 3: 880. 1800. Polygala iiniftora Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2; 53. 1803. Glabrous, perennial from slender prostrate stems and root- stocks 6-15' long. Flowering branches erect or ascending, 4-7' high; leaves of the summits of the st
. 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 . POLYGALACEAE. Vol. II. i6. Polygala paucifolia Willd. Fringed Milkwort. Flowering Wintergreen. Gay-wings. Fig. 2710. Polygala paucifolia Willd. Sp. PI. 3: 880. 1800. Polygala iiniftora Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2; 53. 1803. Glabrous, perennial from slender prostrate stems and root- stocks 6-15' long. Flowering branches erect or ascending, 4-7' high; leaves of the summits of the stems clustered, ovate or oblong, \~'iÂ¥ long, 7"-io" wide, acute, rough-margined, on petioles 2"-4" long; those of the lower part of the shoots suc- cessively smaller, distant, the lowest scale-like; flowers 1-4, axil- lary to the upper leaves, 7"-io" long, slender-pednncled, rose- purple or rarely white, showy; wings obovate ; crest of the corolla beautifully fimbriate; seed slightly shorter than the caruncle; cleistogamous subterranean flowers few, on short lateral branches. In moist rich woods. New Brunswick and Anticosti to Saskatche- p \ U* \van,_south to Georgia. Illinois and Minnesota. Ascends to 2500 ft. in -^ I ^ ^'irginia. Dwarf milkwort. Evergreen snakeroot. May-wings. Little ^ I . " i/^ z<«c; pollom. Baby's^feet, -toes or -slippers. Lady's-sHpper. Bird-on-the- wing. Indian pink. May-July. Â¥ Family 70. EUPHORBIACEAE J. St. Hil. Expos. Fam. 276. 1805.* Spurge Family. Monoecious or dioecious herbs, shrubs or trees, with acrid often milky sap. Leaves opposite, alternate or verticillate, entire or toothed, sessile or petioled, sometimes with glands at the base; stipules present, obsolete or wanting. Inflo- rescence various. Flowers apetalous or petaliferous, sometimes much reduced and subtended by an involucre which resembles a calyx (genera 12â17 )â the number of parts in the floral whorls often different in the staminate a
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