. 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. Botany. PRIMULACEAE. Vol. II. I. Glaux maritima L. Sea ;\Iilk\vort. Black Saltwort. Fig. 3299. maritima L. Sp. PI. 207. 1753. G. maritima obtusifolia Fernald, Rhodora 4: 215. 1902. Perennial by slender rootstocks, glabrous, pale or glaucous, simple or branched, erect or diffuse, 2-12' high. Leaves oval, oblong or linear-oblong, rarely somewhat spatulate, sessile, 2&qu
. 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. Botany. PRIMULACEAE. Vol. II. I. Glaux maritima L. Sea ;\Iilk\vort. Black Saltwort. Fig. 3299. maritima L. Sp. PI. 207. 1753. G. maritima obtusifolia Fernald, Rhodora 4: 215. 1902. Perennial by slender rootstocks, glabrous, pale or glaucous, simple or branched, erect or diffuse, 2-12' high. Leaves oval, oblong or linear-oblong, rarely somewhat spatulate, sessile, 2"-7i" long, l"-4" wide, the lower usually smaller than the upper; flowers about li" broad, solitary and very nearly sessile in the axils, usually numerous; calyx-lobes oval, pink, purplish or white; stamens either shorter than the style or exceeding it; capsule nearly enclosed by the calyx, but free from and about equalling it. In salt marshes and on sea-beaches. New Jersey to Newfoundland : in saline or subsaline soil from Minne- sota to Manitoba, Alberta, Nebraska and Nevada; on the Pacific Coast from California to Alaska. Also in Europe and Asia. Called also sea-trifoly. June-Aug. 10. ANAGALLIS [Tourn.] L. Sp. PI. 148. 1753- Annual or perennial, diffuse or erect, branching mostly glabrous herbs, with opposite or verticillate (rarely alternate) sessile or short-petioled leaves, entire or nearly so, and small axillary peduncled red blue white or pink flowers. Calyx 5-parted, the lobes lanceolate or subulate, spreading, persistent. Corolla deeply 5-parted, rotate, the segments entire or erose, convolute in the bud, longer than the calyx. Stamens 5, inserted at the base of the corolla, filaments subulate, or filiform, puberulent, or pubescent, distinct, or united into a narrow ring at the base; anthers oblong, obtuse. Ovary globose, ovules numerous; stigma obtuse. Capsule globose, circumscissile, many-seeded. Seeds minute, flat on the back. [Greek, delightf
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