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 ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 2. CALTHA [Rupp.] L. Sp. PI. 558. 1753. Succulent herbs, with simple entire or crenate mostly basal cordate or auriculate leaves Flowers yellow, white or pink. Sepals large, deciduous, petal-like. Petals none. Stamens numerous, obovoid. Carpels numerous or few, sessile, bearing ovules in 2 rows along the ventral suture, in fruit forming folli
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 ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 2. CALTHA [Rupp.] L. Sp. PI. 558. 1753. Succulent herbs, with simple entire or crenate mostly basal cordate or auriculate leaves Flowers yellow, white or pink. Sepals large, deciduous, petal-like. Petals none. Stamens numerous, obovoid. Carpels numerous or few, sessile, bearing ovules in 2 rows along the ventral suture, in fruit forming follicles; stigmas nearly sessile. [Latin name of the Marigold.] A genus of beautiful marsh plants, comprising about 15 species, distributed through the tem- perate and arctic regions of both hemispheres. In addition to those here described four or five others are found on the western of the continent. Type species: Caltha paluslris L. Stems erect or ascending ; flowers yellow. Leaves cordate, generally with a narrow sinus ; flowers M'-i 'A' wide. i C. paluslris Leaves flabelliform a broad sinus; flowers 6'-9' wide. 2. Stems floating or creeping ; flowers white or pink. ,' (7' natans Caltha palustris L. Marsh-marigold. ^Meadow-gowan. Fig. 1853. Callha paluslris L. Sp. PI. 558. 1753. Stout, glabrous, stem hollow, erect or ascending, i°-2'' high, branching and bearing several flowers. Basal leaves on long and broad petioles, cordate or reniform, 2'-7' wide, with a narrow sinus, entire, crenate or dentate, the upper shorter-petioled or sessile, with nearly truncate bases; flowers bright yellow, I'-iJ' broad; sepals oval, obtuse; follicles 3-12 or even more, compressed, 5'-6' long, slightly curved outward, many-seeded. In swamps and meadows, Newfoundland to South Carolina, west to Saskatchewan and Nebraska. Ascends to 2500 ft. in Virginia. Locally called cowslip and used as a spring vegetable. April-June. Old English names, water-dragon, water-, mire-, ho
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