Alpine flora of the Canadian Rocky MountainsBrown, Stewardson
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Alpine flora of the Canadian Rocky Mountains
Brown, Stewardson
Mountain plants -- Canadian Rockies (B.C. and Alta.)
†Stamens 3; flowers small, in terminal
clusters. =Valerianaceæ.=
††Stamens 5.
Opposite to the corolla lobes.
=Primulaceæ.=
Alternate with the corolla lobes.
Stems smooth, leafy; corolla
campanulate.
Stem leaves broad; flowers pink.
=Apocynaceæ.=
Stem leaves narrow; flowers blue.
=Campanulaceæ.=
Stems rough-hairy.
Corolla salver-form; stamens included.
=Boraginaceæ.=
Corolla tubular; stamens exserted.
=Hydrophyllacæ.=
†††Stamens 10; flowers mostly in terminal
heads or singly. =Pyrolaceæ.=
**Flowers irregular.
(_a_) Leaves all entire and basal, forming rosettes;
flowers blue. =Lentibulariaceæ.=
(_b_) Leaves all heart-shaped; flowers blue, white
or yellow. =Violaceæ.=
(_c_) Leaves not heart-shaped, simple or much cut,
not pinnate.
Stems square; flowers in close verticels in
the axils of the leaves or in terminal
heads. =Menthaceæ.=
Stems round; flowers numerous in elongated
terminal leafy heads or few on slender
stems in the axils of the upper leaves.
=Scrophulariaceæ.=
(_d_) Leaves palmate; flowers blue in elongated spikes.
=Ranunculaceæ.=
(_e_) Leaves pinnately divided; flowers pea-like.
=Papilionaceæ.=
(_f_) Leaves compoundly lobed, not pinnate.
Stems low, spreading, flowers small in
dense terminal or axillary spikes.
=Papaveraceæ.=
Stems erect; flowers drooping in open
terminal heads, either showy and spurred
or not showy and without spurs; leaves
maiden-hair fern-like.
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