. 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. 5. MORONGIA Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 5: 191. 1894. [ScHRANKiA Willd. Sp. PI. 4: 1041. 1806. Not Medic. 1792.] [Leptoglottis DC. Mem. Leg. 451. 1823?] Perennial herbs, or shrubs, mainly prostrate or procumbent, armed with recurved prickles. Leaves bipinnate, usually sensitive; leaflets numerous, small; stipules setaceous. Flowers regular, small, 4-S-parted, pmk
. 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. 5. MORONGIA Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 5: 191. 1894. [ScHRANKiA Willd. Sp. PI. 4: 1041. 1806. Not Medic. 1792.] [Leptoglottis DC. Mem. Leg. 451. 1823?] Perennial herbs, or shrubs, mainly prostrate or procumbent, armed with recurved prickles. Leaves bipinnate, usually sensitive; leaflets numerous, small; stipules setaceous. Flowers regular, small, 4-S-parted, pmk or purple, perfect or polygamous, in axillary peduncled heads or spikes. Petals united to the middle. Stamens usually 8-12, distinct or united at the base; anthers all alike. Ovary nearly sessile; ovules =0. Pod linear, acute or acuminate, spiny all over, at length 4-valved, several seeded. [Named in honor of the late Rev. Thos. Morong, a contributor to the first edition of this work,] About 10 species, natives of temperate and tropical America, i in tropical Africa. Type species : Schrankia aculeata Willd. Leaflets elliptic, strongly veined. Leaflets linear-oblong, scarcely veined. 1. M. imcinaia. 2. M. I, Morongia uncinata (Willd.) Britton. Sensitive-brier. Fig. 2434. Schrankia uncinata Willd. Sp. PI, 4: 1043. 1806. M. uncinata Britton, Mem. Torr. Club 5 : 191. 1894. Herbaceous, perennial, branched, decumbent, 2°- 4° long. Stem, branches, petioles and peduncles thickly armed with hooked prickles i"-i" long; stem grooved and angled; leaves petioled; pinnae 4-8 pairs, distant; leaflets 8-iS pairs, obliquely ellip- tic, thick, obtusish and mucronate at the apex, inequillateral and rounded at the base, slightly ciliate on the margins, strongly marked with few elevated veins beneath, 2"-4" long; heads globose, very dense, 8"-i2" m diameter; flowers pink; pods terete, very densely spiny, about 2' long. In dry soil, Virginia to Illinois
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