. 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. Botany. FOLR-CrCLOCK FAMILY. I. ALLIONIA Loefl.; L. Syst. Ed. lo, 890. 1759. 10xvB.\pnus L'Her.; VVilld. Sp. PI. i: 185. Forking herbs, with opposite equal leaves, and involucres in loose terminal panicles 01 solitary in the axils of the leaves. Involucre 5-lobed (of 5 partially united bracts), 3-5-flo\v- cred, becoming enlarged and reticulate-veined after flowering. P
. 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. Botany. FOLR-CrCLOCK FAMILY. I. ALLIONIA Loefl.; L. Syst. Ed. lo, 890. 1759. 10xvB.\pnus L'Her.; VVilld. Sp. PI. i: 185. Forking herbs, with opposite equal leaves, and involucres in loose terminal panicles 01 solitary in the axils of the leaves. Involucre 5-lobed (of 5 partially united bracts), 3-5-flo\v- cred, becoming enlarged and reticulate-veined after flowering. Perianth campanulate, its tube constricted above the ovary, its limb coroUa-Uke, deciduous. Stamens 3-5, generally 3, unequal, hypogynous. Fruit obovoid or clavate, strongly ribbed, pubescent (Name in honor of Chas. Allioni, 1725-1804, a botanist of Turin.] About 40 species, natives of North and South .\merica, one violacea L. Fruit pubescent. Leaves narrowly linear, sessile or very nearly so, 4" wide or les Leaves from linear-lanceolate to ovate-cordate. Leaves sesfile or nearly so, lanceolate to oblong. Pubescence fine and short, often wanting below the inflo Pubescence, or some of it, of long hairs, especially below, most species. Type species: Allionia Leaves r glabrous. ifestly petioled, ovate, often cordate. I. Allionia linearis Pnrsh. Xarrow-leaved Umbrella-wort. Fig. 1726. Allionia linearis Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 728. 1814. Calymenia anguslifolia Nutt. Fraser's Cat. Xame only. 1813. Oxybaphus angustifolius Sweet, Hort. Brit. 429. 1830. Stem slender, terete or somewhat 4-angIed below, glabrous, glaucous, 3-41° tall, erect, the branches and peduncles sometimes puberulent. Leaves linear, thick, i-nerved, i'-2}' long, i"-4" wide, obtuse or acute at the apex, sessile or the lower occasionally short-peti- oled; involucre about 3-flowered, green before flower- ing ; perianth purple, longer than the involucre; stamens and style exserted; fruit commonly roughened in
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