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; 2nd ed. . 5. GYPSOPHILA L. Sp. PI. 406. 1753. Annual or perennial, branching or diffuse, mostly glabrous and glaucous herbs, with nar-row leaves, and small numerous axillarj or paniculate flowers. Calyx turbinate or campanu-late, 5-toothed, 5-nerved, bractless. Petals 5, entire or emarginate, their claws narrow. Sta-mens 10; styles 2. Capsule dehiscent by 4 valves extending to
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; 2nd ed. . 5. GYPSOPHILA L. Sp. PI. 406. 1753. Annual or perennial, branching or diffuse, mostly glabrous and glaucous herbs, with nar-row leaves, and small numerous axillarj or paniculate flowers. Calyx turbinate or campanu-late, 5-toothed, 5-nerved, bractless. Petals 5, entire or emarginate, their claws narrow. Sta-mens 10; styles 2. Capsule dehiscent by 4 valves extending to or below the middle Seedsreniform, laterally attached; embryo coiled. [Greek, in allusion to the supposed preferenceof some species for gypsum soils.] About 60 species, natives of Europe, Asia and northern Aincrepens L. Annual, diffuse; leaves narrowly linear; flowers axillary on filiform perennial; leaves lanceolate; flowers paniculate. Type species: Gypsophila 1. G, miiralis, 2. / I. Gypsophila muralis L. Low 1825. Gypsophila muralis L. Sp. PI. 408. 1753. .Annual, diffuse, slender, much branched, glabrous orslightly rough at the base, 4-7 high. Leaves narrowlylinear or subulate, attenuate at each end, 3-io long,4-^ wide; peduncles slender, spreading or ascending,3-io long; flowers purplish, i4-2 broad; calyx turbi-nate, iJ-2 long, 5-toothed, the teeth rounded; petalscrenate or emarginate, 2-$ long, much exceeding thecalyx; pod about 2 long, slightly longer than the In waste places, Maine and Ontario to Michigan Minnesota,Massachusetts, southern New York and New Jersey. Advcntiveor naturalized from Europe. June-Sept. 72 CARYOPHYLLACEAE. Vol. II. 2. GjT)Sophila paniculata L. Tall Gyp- sophyll. Fig. 1826. Gyfsophila paniculata L. Sp. PI. 407. 1753. Perennial, glabrous or sometimes pubescentbelow, stem slender, erect, much branched,i°-2° tall. Leaves lanceolate, those of thestem i long or more, 2-4 wide, acuminate atthe ape
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