. 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. 2. Circaea alpina L. Smaller Enchanter's Nightshade. Fig. 3075. Circaea alpina L. Sp. PI. 9. 7Si- Smaller, 3'-8' high, simple or branched, weak, glabrate, or pubescent above. Leaves ovate, slender-petioled, acute or acuminate at the apex, more or less cordate at the base, coarsely den- tate, 1-2' long; flowers about i" broad; pedicels li"-2" long, refle
. 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. 2. Circaea alpina L. Smaller Enchanter's Nightshade. Fig. 3075. Circaea alpina L. Sp. PI. 9. 7Si- Smaller, 3'-8' high, simple or branched, weak, glabrate, or pubescent above. Leaves ovate, slender-petioled, acute or acuminate at the apex, more or less cordate at the base, coarsely den- tate, 1-2' long; flowers about i" broad; pedicels li"-2" long, reflexed in fruit; fruit narrowly obovoid, i-celled, about l" long, covered with weak soft hooked hairs. In cold moist woods, Labrador to Alaska, south to Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan and South Dakota. Also in Europe and Asia. Leaves thin, somewhat shining. Ascends to 6300 ft. in North Carolina. July-Sept. Family 99. TRAPACEAE Dumort, Fl. Belg. 90. 1827. A\'.\ Family. Aquatic herhs, with opposite or verticillate pinnatifid submerged leaves, and clustered rhombic-ovate dentate floating ones with inflated petioles. Flowers per- fect, axillary, solitary, short-peduncled. short, the limb 4-parted, the lobes persistent. Petals 4, sessile, inserted on the perigynous disk. Stamens 4, inserted with the petals; filaments subulate-filiform. Ovary 2-celled, conic above; style subulate ; ovule i in each cavity. Fruit coriaceous or bony, large, 2-4-spinose or swollen at the middle, i-celled, i-seeded, indehiscent. Seed inverted. A single genus of 3 species, natives of Europe, tropical .â \sia and Africa. I. TRAPA L. Sp. PI. 120. 1753. Characters of the family. [Latin, calcitrapa, the caltrop.] Type species: Trafa natans Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Britton, Nathaniel Lord,
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