The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States: Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and TennesseeGray, Asa
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The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States: Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee
Gray, Asa
Plants -- United States
4. SULLIVÁNTIA, Torr. & Gray.
Calyx bell-shaped, cohering below only with the base of the ovary,
5-cleft. Petals 5, oblanceolate, entire, acutish, withering-persistent.
Stamens 5, shorter than the petals. Capsule 2-celled, 2-beaked,
many-seeded, opening between the beaks, the seeds wing-margined,
imbricated upward.--A low and reclined-spreading perennial herb, with
rounded and cut-toothed or slightly lobed smooth leaves, on slender
petioles, and small white flowers in a branched loosely cymose panicle,
raised on a nearly leafless slender stem (6--12´ long). Peduncles and
calyx glandular; pedicels recurved in fruit. (Dedicated to the
distinguished bryologist who discovered our species.)
1. S. Ohiònis, Torr. & Gray.--Limestone cliffs, Ohio to Ind., Iowa, and
Minn. June.
5. TIARÉLLA, L. FALSE MITRE-WORT.
Calyx bell-shaped, nearly free from the ovary, 5-parted. Petals 5, with
claws, entire. Stamens 10, long and slender. Styles 2. Capsule
membranaceous, 1-celled, 2-valved; the valves unequal. Seeds few, at the
base of each parietal placenta, globular, smooth.--Perennials; flowers
white. (Name a diminutive from τιάρα, _a tiara_, or turban, from the
form of the pod, or rather pistil, which is like that of Mitella, to
which the name of _Mitre-wort_ properly belongs.)
1. T. cordifòlia, L. Leaves from the rootstock or summer runners
heart-shaped, sharply lobed and toothed, sparsely hairy above, downy
beneath; stem leafless or rarely with 1 or 2 leaves (5--12´ high);
raceme simple; petals oblong, often subserrate.--Rich rocky woods,
N. Eng. to Minn. and Ind., and southward in the mountains. April, May.
6. MITÉLLA, Tourn. MITRE-WORT. BISHOP'S-CAP.
Calyx short, coherent with the base of the ovary, 5-cleft. Petals 5,
slender, pinnatifid. Stamens 5 or 10, included. Styles 2, very short.
Capsule short, 2-beaked, 1-celled, with 2 parietal or rather basal
several-seeded placentæ, 2-valved at the summit. Seeds smooth and
shining.--Low and slender perennials, with round heart-shaped alternate
leaves on the rootstock or runners, on slender petioles; those on the
flowering stems opposite, if any. Flowers small, in a simple slender
raceme or spike. Fruit soon widely dehiscent. (Diminutive of _mitra_, a
cap, alluding to the form of the young pod.)
1. M. diphýlla, L. _Hairy; leaves heart-shaped, acute_, somewhat
3--5-lobed, toothed, _those on the many-flowered stem 2, opposite,
nearly sessile_, with interfoliar stipules; flowers white, in a raceme
6--8´ long; stamens 10.--Hillsides in rich woods; N. Eng. to N. C., west
to Minn. and Mo. May.
2. M. nùda, L. Small and slender; _leaves rounded or kidney-form_,
deeply and doubly crenate; _stem usually leafless, few-flowered_, very
slender (4--6´ high); flowers greenish; stamens 10.--Deep moist woods,
in moss, N. Eng. to N. Y., Mich., Minn., and northward. May--July.
7. HEÙCHERA, L. ALUM-ROOT.
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