. 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. SCROPHULARIACEAE. Vol. III. 2. Kickxia Elatine (L.) Dumort. Sharp-pointed Fluellin or Toad-Flax. Fig. 3741. Antirrhinum Elatine L. Sp. PI. 612. 1753. Linaria Elatina Mill. Gard. Diet. Ed. 8, no. 16. 1768. Kickxia Elatine Dumont. Fl. Belg. 35. 1827. Elatinoides Elatine Wettst. & Prantl, Nat. Pfl. Fam. 4: Abt. 3b, 58. 1891. Annual, pubescent; stems p
. 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. SCROPHULARIACEAE. Vol. III. 2. Kickxia Elatine (L.) Dumort. Sharp-pointed Fluellin or Toad-Flax. Fig. 3741. Antirrhinum Elatine L. Sp. PI. 612. 1753. Linaria Elatina Mill. Gard. Diet. Ed. 8, no. 16. 1768. Kickxia Elatine Dumont. Fl. Belg. 35. 1827. Elatinoides Elatine Wettst. & Prantl, Nat. Pfl. Fam. 4: Abt. 3b, 58. 1891. Annual, pubescent; stems prostrate, usually branched, slender, 6'-2° long. Leaves short-petioled, ovate, i'-i' long, acute or acutish at the apex, triangular, hastate, truncate, or subcordate at the base, the basal auricles divergent, acute; petioles i"s" long; flowers solitary in the axils, about 3" long; peduncles filiform, gla- brous, or somewhat hairy, usually longer than the leaves; calyx-segments narrowly lanceolate, acute; co- rolla yellowish, purplish beneath, its spur slender, straight, declined; capsule subglobose, shorter than the calyx; seeds wingless. In sandy waste places, Canada ( ?) ; Massachusetts to Georgia and Missouri. Naturalized from Europe. Na- tive also of Asia. Called also canker-root. June—Sept. 4. CHAENORRHINUM [DC] Lange; Willk. & Lange, Prodr. Fl. Hisp. 2: 577- 1870. Herbs with alternate, usually entire leaves, and violet, blue or white axillary flowers. Calyx 5-parted, the segments narrow. Corolla similar to that of Linaria, but with an open throat and a straight upper lip. Stamens 4, didynamous; filaments slender. Style filiform. Capsule inequilateral, one carpel larger than the other. Seeds ovoid or cuneate, ribbed. [Greek, open nose, referring to the open corolla-throat.] About 20 species, chiefly in the Mediterranean region and Asia. Type species: Antirrhinum minus L. i. Chaenorrhinum minus (L.) Lange. Small Snap-dragon. Fig. 3742. Antirrhinum minu
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