. 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 . 14. Polygala alba Xutt. White Milkwort. Fig. 2708. Polygala alba Nutt. Gen. 2: 87. 1818. Polygala Senega var. tenuifolia Pursh. Fl. Am. Sept. 750. 1814. Not P. tenuifolia Willd. 1803. Perennial, glabrous, stems erect from hard woody root- stocks, slender, 6-15' high. Leaves alternate, narrowly linear, acute, 3"-i2" long, i"-i" wide, their margins entire a
. 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 . 14. Polygala alba Xutt. White Milkwort. Fig. 2708. Polygala alba Nutt. Gen. 2: 87. 1818. Polygala Senega var. tenuifolia Pursh. Fl. Am. Sept. 750. 1814. Not P. tenuifolia Willd. 1803. Perennial, glabrous, stems erect from hard woody root- stocks, slender, 6-15' high. Leaves alternate, narrowly linear, acute, 3"-i2" long, i"-i" wide, their margins entire and revolute, the lower somewhat broader and shorter, clustered; spike terminal, long-peduncled, dense, i'-2'Iong; flowers l"-iJ" long, white; pedicels less than 4" long; wings oblong-ovate, slightly concave; crest of the corolla short; seeds silky; about twice the length of the caruncle- lobes. Prairies, South Dakota to Nebraska, Kansas, Texas and Mexico, Montana, New Mexico and Arizona. May-July. 15. Polygalapolygama\\alt. Racemed Milkwort. Fig. 2709. Polygala polygama Walt. Fl. Car. 179. 1788. abortiva Chodat, 1893. Me Gen. P. polyga 31=: .28c Biennial, glabrous; stems numerous, simple, 4'-2o' high, erect from a deep slender root. Stem-leaves crowded, oblong or oblanceolate, obtuse, mucronulate, 8"-i2" long, i"-2" wide, entire, the lower gradually smaller; basal leaves spatulate, sometimes smaller; raceme terminal, loose, 1-4' long; pedicels spreading or recurved. i"-2" long; flowers purple or rose, rarely nearly white, showy. 2"-3" long, or some of them small and cleistogamous; wings broadly obovate; crest of the corolla large, laciniate; stamens 8; subterranean branches horizontal, bearing numerous, nearly sessile cleistogamous flowers; seeds hairy, longer than the caruncle-lobes. In dry soil. Nova Scotia to Manitoba. Michigan, Florida and Texas. Local, wort. Centaury. June-July. or pink
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