. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 3. Bartonia verna (Michx.) Muhl. White Bartonia. Fig. 3369- Centaurella verna Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 97. pi. is. f. I. 1803. Bartonia verna Muhl. Cat. 16. 1813. Stem thicker and less rigid than that of the two preceding species, usually simple, 2'-i5' high, racemosely or corymbosely i-several-flowered. Bracts distant, appressed, some of them commonly alternate;
. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 3. Bartonia verna (Michx.) Muhl. White Bartonia. Fig. 3369- Centaurella verna Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 97. pi. is. f. I. 1803. Bartonia verna Muhl. Cat. 16. 1813. Stem thicker and less rigid than that of the two preceding species, usually simple, 2'-i5' high, racemosely or corymbosely i-several-flowered. Bracts distant, appressed, some of them commonly alternate; flowers solitary at the ends of the elon- gated erect peduncles, 3"-4" long; peduncles sometimes 2' long; corolla white, its lobes spatulate or obovate, obtuse, denticulate or entire, about 3 times the length of the calyx; ovary compressed; capsule about 2i" high. In moist sand, southern Virginia to Florida and Louisiana. March-May. Family 16. MENYANTHACEAE G. Don, Gard. Diet. 4: 167. 1837. Buckbean Family. Perennial aquatic or marsh herbs, with basal or alternate entire crenate or 3-foliolate leaves, and clustered regular perfect flowers. Calyx inferior, deeply 5-parted, persistent. Corolla funnelform to rotate, 5-lobed or 5-cleft, the lobes induplicate-valvate, at least in the bud. Stamens 5, borne on the corolla, and alternate with its lobes; filaments mostly short; anther-sacs longitudinally dehis- cent; pollen-grains 3-angled. Ovary i-celled, the 2 placentae sometimes intruded; style long, short or none. Fruit a capsule, or indehiscent. Five genera and about 35 species, widely distributed. Leaves 3-foliolate ; swamp plant. 1. Menyanthes. Leaves simple, entire, cordate, floating. 2. Nymphoides. i. MENYANTHES [Tourn.] L. Sp. Pi. 145- 1753- A perennial glabrous marsh herb, with creeping rootstocks, alternate long-petioled 3-foliolate basal leaves, and white or purplish flowers, racemose or panicled on long lateral scapes or peduncles. Calyx S-parted, the segme
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