. 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 . 5. Gaura villosa Torr. Woolly Gaura. Fig. 3072. Gaura vilosa Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 2: 200, 1827 Perenniai, erect or neany so, canescent or villous. Sterns l°-3° tall, simple or much branched, often naked above; leaves varying from lanceolate to oblanceolate or sometimes nearly linear, 1-3' long, sinuate- toothed or pinnatifid, acute or acuminate, sessile; calyx canescent. it
. 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 . 5. Gaura villosa Torr. Woolly Gaura. Fig. 3072. Gaura vilosa Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 2: 200, 1827 Perenniai, erect or neany so, canescent or villous. Sterns l°-3° tall, simple or much branched, often naked above; leaves varying from lanceolate to oblanceolate or sometimes nearly linear, 1-3' long, sinuate- toothed or pinnatifid, acute or acuminate, sessile; calyx canescent. its tube above the ovary funnelform, i"-2" long, several times shorter than the linear acute segments; petals oblong-obovate, S'-y" long; stamens shorter than tlie petals; fruit about 5" long, sparingly pubescent, the body sharply 4 ingled, abruptly narrowed into a slender hliform pedicel. In dry soil, Kansas to Arkansas and Texas. Wild honeysuckle. June-Sept. 19. STENOSIPHON Spach, Nouv. Ann. ]\Ius. Tar 4: 326. 1835. Erect perennia. herbs, with slender upright branches, alternate sessile narrow leaves, and white sessile flowers in narrow terminal spikes. filiform, much prolonged beyond the ovary, 4-Iobed. Petals 4, clawed, unequal. Stamens 8, declined, not appendaged by scales at the base; filaments filiformi Ovary i-celled; united styles slender; stigma 4-lobed, subtended by a cup-like border as in Gaura; ovules commonly 4. Fruit 8-ribbed. indehiscent, i-celled, i-seeded. Seed pendulous. [Greek, referring to the slender calyx-tube.] A monotypic genus of the south-central United States. I. Stenosiphon linifolium (Nntt.) Britten. Flax-leaved Steno- siphon. Fig. 3073. Gaura Unifolia Nutt. in Long's Exp. 2 : 100. Stenosiphon virgalus Spach, Nouv. Ann. Mus. Par. 4: .•526. 1835. Stenosiphon Hnifolitim Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 5 : 236. 1894. Erect, slender, glabrous, 2°-s'' high. Leaves sessile, lanceolate, linear-lanceo- late or linear, acuminate
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