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 . 24. Asclepias piimila (A. Gray) \ ]\Iilkweed. Fig. 3406. Asclepias pumila Vail; Britton & Brown, 111. Fl. 3:12. 1898. Asclepias verticillata var. pumila A. Gray, ProcAm. Acad. 12: 71. 1876. Stems 4-10 high, tufted from a woody very numerous, crowded, sometimes ob-scurely whorled, filiform-linear, l-2 long,smooth or minutely roughened, the margins rev-olute ;

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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 . 24. Asclepias piimila (A. Gray) \ ]\Iilkweed. Fig. 3406. Asclepias pumila Vail; Britton & Brown, 111. Fl. 3:12. 1898. Asclepias verticillata var. pumila A. Gray, ProcAm. Acad. 12: 71. 1876. Stems 4-10 high, tufted from a woody very numerous, crowded, sometimes ob-scurely whorled, filiform-linear, l-2 long,smooth or minutely roughened, the margins rev-olute ; umbels 2-several, short-peduncled, few-flowered; pedicels filiform, puberulent, 3-4long; corolla greenish white, its segments ob-long, \l-2 long; column short; hoods white,erect, oblong, entire, equalling the anthers,shorter than the slender incurved horn; follicleserect on erect fruiting pedicels, narrowly spindle-shaped, 12-3 long, finely puberulent. Dry plains, Iowa to South Dakota. Arkansas,Texas, Wyoming, Colorado and Xew Mexico. Genus 2. MILKWEED FAMILY. 33 2. ASCLEPIODORA A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 12: 66. or decumbent perennial herbs, similar to Asdepias, with alternate or oppositeentire lea

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