. Rocky Mountain flowers : an illustrated guide for plant-lovers and plant-users. several times longer than the ovary, petalsA. white, pink or yellow, separate, stamens 8, the alternate longer, ovary 4-celled, 4-winged, stigma 4-cleft; flowers solitary; leaves basal, pinnatifid ;stemless perennial or annual. 1. Flowers 1-2 in. wide, yellow then pink; fruits beaked L. triloba 2. Flowers 3-4 in. wide, yellow ; fruits not beaked L. brachycarpa Meriolix Rafinesque 1818 v(Of doubtful origin and meaning) PI. 32, fig. 3. Sepals 4, united into a tube shorter than the ovary, petals 4, separate,yellow,
. Rocky Mountain flowers : an illustrated guide for plant-lovers and plant-users. several times longer than the ovary, petalsA. white, pink or yellow, separate, stamens 8, the alternate longer, ovary 4-celled, 4-winged, stigma 4-cleft; flowers solitary; leaves basal, pinnatifid ;stemless perennial or annual. 1. Flowers 1-2 in. wide, yellow then pink; fruits beaked L. triloba 2. Flowers 3-4 in. wide, yellow ; fruits not beaked L. brachycarpa Meriolix Rafinesque 1818 v(Of doubtful origin and meaning) PI. 32, fig. 3. Sepals 4, united into a tube shorter than the ovary, petals 4, separate,yellow, stamens 8, ovary 4-celled, 4-angled, stigma disk-like. 4-toothed,pods linear, 4-angled; flowers axillary, solitary, regular; leaves alternate,entire or toothed ; biennial or perennial. Plate 32 EVENING PRIMROSES—CACTI EVENING PRIMROSE FAMILY 1. Chamaenerium angustifolium : Firevveed 2. Gaura coccinea 3. Meriolix serrulata 4. Onagra biennis: Evening Primrose MENTZELIA FAMILY 5. Mentzelia multiflora CACTUS FAMILY 6. Opuntia humifusa: Prickly Pear 7. Cactus viviparus PLATE :DITH S. CLEMENTS. PINXT ROCKY MOUNTAIN FLOWERS EVENING PRIMROSE FAMILY 205 Stems 6-15 in. high; leaves linear-oblong or lanceolate, toothed, 1-3 in. long; flowers cm. wide M. serruldta Onagra Adanson 1763 Evening Primrose(Gr. onagra, wild ass, from a fancied resemblance of its leaves to an asss ears)PI. 32, fig. 4. Sepals 4, united into a tube longer than the ovary, petals 4, yellow,white or pink, separate, stamens 8, ovary 4-celled, stigma 4-cleft, capsule4-angled; flowers in terminal spikes, opening in the evening; leaves alter-nate, entire to toothed; annual or biennial. 1. Calyx tube 1-2 in. long a. Petals yellow, 1-2 cm. long O. biennis b. Petals yellow or pinkish, 2-4 cm. long 0. Hookeri 2. Calyx tube 2-4 in. long O. Jdmesii Pachylophus Spach 18^5 Evening Primrose(Gr. pachys, thick, lophos, crest, from the pod) Sepals 4, united into a tube several times longer than the ovary, petals4, white o
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