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. A. lævigàta, Poir. _Smooth_ and glaucous, upright; _stem-leaves
partly clasping_ by the arrow-shaped base, lanceolate or linear,
sparingly cut-toothed or entire; petals scarcely longer than the calyx;
_pods long and narrow, recurved-spreading_ on ascending or merely
spreading pedicels.--Rocky places, Maine to Minn. and southward. May.
5. A. Canadénsis, L. (SICKLE-POD.) Stem upright, smooth above;
_stem-leaves pubescent, pointed at both ends_, oblong-lanceolate,
sessile, the lower toothed; petals twice the length of the calyx,
oblong-linear; _pods very flat, scythe-shaped, hanging_ on rough-hairy
pedicels (2´´ wide).--Woods and ravines; not rare, especially westward.
June--Aug.
§ 2. TURRÌTIS. _Seeds not so broad as the partition, in two more or less
distinct rows in each cell, at least when young; strict and very
leafy-stemmed biennials; cauline leaves partly clasping by a sagittate
base. (Our species very glabrous, except the mostly hirsute base of the
stem and the lower leaves.)_
6. A. perfoliàta, Lam. (TOWER MUSTARD.) Tall (2--4° high), _glaucous_;
stem-leaves oblong or ovate-lanceolate, entire; _petals yellowish-white,
little longer than the calyx; pods very narrow_ (3´ long) _and pedicels
strictly erect_; seeds marginless; cotyledons often oblique.--Rocks and
fields, N. Eng. to Minn. (rare), north and westward. (Eu.)
7. A. confìnis, Watson. Scarcely glaucous, 1--3° high; pubescence below
finely stellate; _stem-leaves lanceolate or oblong-linear_, entire
(1--2´ long), with narrow auricles, or the lowest spatulate and toothed;
_petals white or rose-color, fully twice the length of the calyx_;
pedicels and flat _pods loosely erect, or ascending, or even spreading_;
seeds wing-margined, when mature little narrower than the partition. (A.
Drummondii, _Man._)--From the lower St. Lawrence to Minn., south to
Conn., N. Y., and Ill.--Pods 2½--3½´ long, or in a var. (T. brachycarpa,
_Torr. & Gray_) only 1--2´ long.
§ 3. PSEUDÁRABIS. _Seeds oblong or elliptical, very small, wingless, in
one row; cotyledons often more or less oblique. Biennial or perennial,
branching from the base._
8. A. lyràta, L. Mostly glabrous, except the _lyrate-pinnatifid
root-leaves_; stem-leaves scattered, spatulate or linear with a tapering
base, sparingly toothed or entire; _petals white_, much longer than the
yellowish calyx; pods long and slender, flat, ascending or
spreading.--On rocks or sandy shores, New Eng. to Ky. along the
mountains, Minn., and northward. April--July.--Usually biennial, but
southward in the mountains decidedly perennial.
9. A. dentàta, Torr. & Gray. Roughish pubescent, slender (1--2° high);
_leaves oblong_, very obtuse, unequally and sharply toothed; those of
the stem _numerous, half-clasping and eared_ at the base, of the root
broader and tapering into a short petiole; petals (whitish) scarcely
exceeding the calyx; _pods widely spreading, very slender,
short-stalked; style scarcely any_.--N. Y. to Mich., Minn., and
southward. May, June.
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