. 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 . Herbs, or shrubby plants, with diffusely branch- ing stems. Leaves alternate, petioled, the blades often membranous. Flowers monoecious, axillary, pedicelled, the staminate often clustered, with a s-6-lobed calyx, 5 or 6 petals, a glandular or lobed disk, 5 or 6 stamens and distinct filaments; pistillate flowers solitary, with a 5-6-lobed calyx, minute petals or these wantin
. 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 . Herbs, or shrubby plants, with diffusely branch- ing stems. Leaves alternate, petioled, the blades often membranous. Flowers monoecious, axillary, pedicelled, the staminate often clustered, with a s-6-lobed calyx, 5 or 6 petals, a glandular or lobed disk, 5 or 6 stamens and distinct filaments; pistillate flowers solitary, with a 5-6-lobed calyx, minute petals or these wanting; ovary 3-celled; styles stout, 2-cleft or 2-parted; ovules 2 in each cavity. Capsules dry, sepa- rating into 3 2-valved carpels. Seed somewhat curved, rugose; endosperm fleshy; embryo curved. [From the Greek for Portulaca.] About 12 species, of wide geographic distribution. Type species: Andrachne Telefhioldes L. I. Andrachne phyllanthoides (Xutt.) Aliill. Arg. Northern Andrachne. Fig. 2712. Lepidanlluis phyllanthoides Nutt. Trans. .\m. Philos. Soc. 5: 175. 1837. Andrachne phyllanthoides Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. 15: 435- 1862. .\ straggling much branched shrub, i°-3° tall, with glabrous lustrous branches and minutely pubescent twigs. Leaves numerous, the blades obovate or oval, 4"-9" long, retuse or obtuse at the apex, often mucronulate, bright green, paler beneath than above, short-petioled; pedicels fili- form, 3"-io" long, glabrous; calyx-segments ob- long-obovate. 3"-i*" long, spreading; petals of two kinds, those of the staminate flowers nar- rowly obovate, or oblong-obovate. 3-S-toothed, greenish-yellow, those of the pistillate flowers smaller, broadly ohovate. entire; capsule subglo- bosc. rather fleshy until mature. On rocky barrens, Missouri to Arkansas and Texas. Summer.
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