. 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 . 13. MITELLA [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. 406. 753- Erect perennial herbs, with long-petioled ovate or orbicular basal leaves, naked or 2-leaved scapes, and small white or greenish flowers in elongated spiciform racemes. Calyx- tube campanulate or hemispheric, adnate to the base of the ovary, its limb S-Iobed. Petals 5, 3-cleft or pinnatifid. Stamens 10 (sometimes s) ; filaments short
. 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 . 13. MITELLA [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. 406. 753- Erect perennial herbs, with long-petioled ovate or orbicular basal leaves, naked or 2-leaved scapes, and small white or greenish flowers in elongated spiciform racemes. Calyx- tube campanulate or hemispheric, adnate to the base of the ovary, its limb S-Iobed. Petals 5, 3-cleft or pinnatifid. Stamens 10 (sometimes s) ; filaments short. Ovary globose, I-celled; styles 2, short; ovules 00. Capsule l-celled, 2-valved at the apex, many-seeded. Seeds smooth, shining. [Diminutive of milra, a cap, from the form of the young pod.] About 4 species, natives of North America and eastern Asia. Type species : Mitella diphylla L, Basal leave Basal leavt scape with 2 opposite leaves, rm ; scape naked or i-leaved near the ba M. diphylla.
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