. 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. 440 LINACEAE, Vol. II. Millegrana Radiola (L.) Druce (Radiola Linoides Roth), the All-seed of Europe, has been found on Cape Breton. The genus differs from Linum and CalhartoHnum in its 4-parted flowers. Family 64. BALSAMINACEAE Lindl. Nat. Syst. Ed. 2, 138. 1836. Jewel-weed Family. Succulent herbs, with akernate thin, simple dentate petioled leaves and showy v
. 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. 440 LINACEAE, Vol. II. Millegrana Radiola (L.) Druce (Radiola Linoides Roth), the All-seed of Europe, has been found on Cape Breton. The genus differs from Linum and CalhartoHnum in its 4-parted flowers. Family 64. BALSAMINACEAE Lindl. Nat. Syst. Ed. 2, 138. 1836. Jewel-weed Family. Succulent herbs, with akernate thin, simple dentate petioled leaves and showy very irregular axillary somewhat clustered flowers. Sepals 3, the 2 lateral ones small, green, nerved, the posterior one large, petaloid, saccate, spurred. Petals 5, or 3 with 2 of them 2-cleft into dissimilar lobes. Stamens 5, short; filaments appendaged by scales on their inner side and more or less united; anthers coherent or connivent. Ovary oblong, 5-celled ; style very short, or none ; stigma 5-toothed or 5-lobed; ovules several in each cell. Fruit in the following genus an oblong or linear capsule, elastically dehiscent into 5 spirally coiled valves, expelling the oblong ridged seeds. Endosperm none; embryo nearly straight; cotyledons flat. Later flowers small, cleistogamous, apetalous. About 220 species, mostly natives of tropical Asia. The family consists of the following genus and the raonotypic Asiatic Hydrocera, differing from Impatiens in its indehiscent 4-5-seeded berry. In our first edition it was placed at the end of the order Sapindales, but is here grouped in the Geraniales. I. IMPATIENS [Rivin.] L. Sp. PL 937. 1753. Characters of the family, as given above. [Name in allusion to the elastically bursting pods.] Besides the following species, 3 others occur in Western North America and two in Central America. Type species : Impatiens Noli-fangcrc L., an Old World plant with light yellow flowers, recorded as found in Ontario. Flowers orange-yellow, mottled ; spur
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