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Identifier: nativeflowersfer02meeh (find matches)
Title: The native flowers and ferns of the United States in their botanical, horticultural and popular aspects
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Meehan, Thomas, 1826-1901
Subjects: Wild flowers -- United States Ferns -- United States
Publisher: Boston : L. Prang and Co.
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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he race is thencontinued by the younger offspring. The Star-Grass is in flower in May, according to some authors,and in June, according to others. But in Germantown, Pa., itblossoms from May to September. It is found in all the stateson the eastern slope of the continent, from Maine to Florida.In Kansas and Arkansas it is quite common ; and it was alsofound by Marcys expedition on the head waters of the TrinityRiver, in Northern Texas. It does not, however, seem to havereached Colorado, nor is it found in Wyoming or Idaho, and itis probably wholly confined to the regions east of tlie RockyMountains. Its northwestern limit is Minnesota, where it isabundant. The favorite places of growth of this species seem to be openwoods, or waste places covered with low shrubs ; but our speci-men is from a cranberry swamp, and it may have been that thisposition favored the production of seed. Explanations of the Tlatk.-i. Complete plant. - 2. Mature capsule with seed.-3. Anther much enlarged. Plat-e
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K; pn T/ I , (I . pp.AN RUELLIA CILIOSA. LONG-TUBED RUELLIA, NATURAL ORDER, ACA\TIIACE/K. RuELLiA CILIOSA, Pursh. — Hirsute, with soft whitish hairs (one foot to three feet high);leaves nearly sessile, oval or ovate-oblong (one inch to two inches long); flowers one tothree and almost sessile in the a.xils; tube of the corolla (one inch to one and one halfinches long) fully twice the length of the setaceous calyx-lobes; the throat short. (GraysMiiiiual of till Bo/iiny of t/ie Aorllurn UiiilcJ Stales. See also, under Difitcracantlmsfi/wsiis. Woods Class-Bool; If Bilaiiy, and Chapmans Flora of Ihc Southern UnitedStates.)
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