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 . ach 1-3-celled, dehiscent or indehiscent. Seeds mostly mucilaginous and emitting spiralthreads when wetted. [In honor of Navarrete, a Spanish physician.] About 24 species, natives of western America. Besides the following, some 20 others occur inthe western United States. Type species: Navarretia invohicrata R. & P. I. Navarretia minima Xutt. Small Navar-retia.
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 . ach 1-3-celled, dehiscent or indehiscent. Seeds mostly mucilaginous and emitting spiralthreads when wetted. [In honor of Navarrete, a Spanish physician.] About 24 species, natives of western America. Besides the following, some 20 others occur inthe western United States. Type species: Navarretia invohicrata R. & P. I. Navarretia minima Xutt. Small Navar-retia. Fig. 3483. Navarretia minima Nutt. Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila.(II.) I : 160. 1848. Gilia minima A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 8: 269. 1870. Depressed, tufted, somewhat pubescent; stem usu-ally branched, i-3 high. Leaves sessile, ¥-1 long,i-2-pinnatifid into almost filiform rigid acicular seg-ments; flowers about 2 long, white, densely capi-tate ; calyx-lobes awl-shaped, mostly toothed, aboutas long as the tube and equalling the corolla, thesinuses more or less white-pubescent; calyx-tubeabout equalling the indehiscent i-6-seeded capsule. In dry soil, Nebraska and South Dakota to Washing-ton and Arizona. Genus i. WATER-LEAF FAMILY. 65 Family 23. HYDROPHYLLACEAE Lindl. Nat. Syst. Ed. 2, 271. 1836. Water-leaf , mostly hirsute, pubescent or scabrous, with alternate or basal, rarelyopposite leaves, and perfect regular 5-parted flowers, in scorpioid cymes, spikesor racemes, or rarely solitary. Calyx inferior, deeply cleft or divided, the sinusessometimes appendaged. Corolla gamopetalous, funnel form, salver form, campan-ulate, or rotate. Stamens 5, inserted on the tube or base of the corolla, andalternate with its lobes; filaments filiform; anthers ovate, oblong, or linear, mostlyversatile, 2-celled, the sacs longitudinally dehiscent. Disk annular or none. Ovarysuperior, 2-celled, or i-celled with 2 placentae; styles 2, separate, or partly united;stigmas small, ter
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