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. . stamens variable inlength, often long-exserted. In waste places, southern New York toFlorida, west to Illinois, .Arkansas and Louisi-ana. Sometimes cultivated for or adventive from tropical cleome. Summer. CAPPARIDACEAE. Vol. II. 2. CRISTATELLA Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phil. 7: 85. pi. p. 1834. Annual viscid glandular-pubescent herbs, with
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. . stamens variable inlength, often long-exserted. In waste places, southern New York toFlorida, west to Illinois, .Arkansas and Louisi-ana. Sometimes cultivated for or adventive from tropical cleome. Summer. CAPPARIDACEAE. Vol. II. 2. CRISTATELLA Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phil. 7: 85. pi. p. 1834. Annual viscid glandular-pubescent herbs, with digitately 3-foIiolate leaves, and smallwhite or yellovvisli flowers in terminal bracted racemes. Sepals spreading, slightly unitedat the base. Petals 4, laciniate or fimbriate at the summit, borne on long slender claws, the2 lower smaller than the 2 upper. Receptacle short, with a short petaloid nectary betweenthe ovary and the upper sepal. Stamens 6-14; filaments slender, declined. Ovary stalked,also declined. Capsule linear, nearly terete, many-seeded. [Diminutive of crislatus, crested,referring to the lacinitale petals.] uth-central United States. Type species: Cnslatella A genus of 2 species natives of theerosa I. Cristatella Jamesii T. & G. JamesCristatella. Fig. 2116. Cristatella Jamesii T. & G. Fl. N. A. i: 124. 1838. Erect, slender, branching, 6-15 high. Leavesslender-petioled; leaflets nearly sessile, linear orlinear-oblong, longer than the petiole, entire,obtuse, 4-i2 long; flowers slender-pedicelled,whitish or yellowish, the pedicels diverging;bracts mostly 3-foliolate; claws of the largerpetals i-h-2l long; sepals acute or obtusish;pod ascending, much longer than its stipe andsomewhat longer than the pedicel. In dry soil. Iowa to Nebraska, Colorado, Louisi-ana and Texas. Reported from Illinois. June-Dec. 3. CLEOMELLA DC. Prodr. i: Annual glabrous branchmg erect or diffuse herbs, with small yellow flowers and 3-folio-late leaves. of 4 sepals.
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