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. . t, s-glong. Leaves spatulate or oblanceolate, ob-tuse, narrowed into a petiole or sessile, l-2long. 3-5 wide; flowers few, pink, racemose,3-4 broad, the petals much longer than thecalyx; pedicels slender, 4-l5 long, recurvedin fruit; capsule very small. In wet places, Minnesota to British Columbiaand Alaska, south in the Rocky Mountains toNew Mexico, and to California
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. . t, s-glong. Leaves spatulate or oblanceolate, ob-tuse, narrowed into a petiole or sessile, l-2long. 3-5 wide; flowers few, pink, racemose,3-4 broad, the petals much longer than thecalyx; pedicels slender, 4-l5 long, recurvedin fruit; capsule very small. In wet places, Minnesota to British Columbiaand Alaska, south in the Rocky Mountains toNew Mexico, and to California. May-June. 4. MONTIA [Micheli] L. Sp. PI. 87. 1753. Small annual glabrous herbs, with opposite fleshy leaves and minute nodding solitary orloosely racemed white flowers. Sepals 2 (rarely 3), broadly ovate, persistent. Petals 3,hypogynous, more or less united. Stamens 3 (very rarely 5), inserted on the corolla. Ovary3-ovuled; style short, 3-parted. Capsule 3-valved, 3-seeded. Seeds nearly orbicular, com-pressed, minutely tuberculate. [In honor of Guiseppe Monti, Italian botanist and author ofthe eighteenth century.] A genus of few species, widely distributed in the colder parts of both hemispheres, the follow-ing Genus 4. PURSLANE FAMILY. 39 I. Montia fontana L Water or Blinking Water-blinks. Fig. 1743. Monlia fontana L. Sp. PI. 87. 1753. Densely tufted, very green, weak, diffuse or ascending, i-6long, freely branching. Leaves opposite, spatulate or obovate,mainly obtuse, 3-6 long, l broad or less; flowers nodding,solitary and terminal or in a small loose leafy-bracted raceme ;sepals obtuse, slightly shorter than the ovate-oblong petals;capsule globose, nearly i in diameter. In springs and wet places, St. Anne des Monts. Quebec ; Maine,Nova Scotia, New Brunswiclc, Labrador, Newfoundland, and acrossarctic America, extending south in the mountains to in the Andes of South America, in Australasia and in north-ern Europe and Asia. Summer.
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