An illustrated flora of the 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 ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 Ge-nus PURSLANE FAMILY 4. Portulaca grandiflora Hook. Garden I'ortu- laca or Purslane. Sun-plant. Fig. 1748. Portulaca grandiflora Hook. Bot. Mag. pi. ^883. iSjg. Ascending or spreading, sometimes densely pilose, but often with but a few scattered hairs and tufts of others in the axils. Branches 6-13' long; leaves
An illustrated flora of the 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 ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 Ge-nus PURSLANE FAMILY 4. Portulaca grandiflora Hook. Garden I'ortu- laca or Purslane. Sun-plant. Fig. 1748. Portulaca grandiflora Hook. Bot. Mag. pi. ^883. iSjg. Ascending or spreading, sometimes densely pilose, but often with but a few scattered hairs and tufts of others in the axils. Branches 6-13' long; leaves alter- nate, and clustered at the ends of the branches, terete, i'-i' long, about i' wide; flowers 1-2' broad, pink, yellow, red, or white, very showy, open in sunshine only; sepals broad, obtuse, scarious-margined; petals obovate; capsule ovoid; seeds gray, shining. In waste places, occasionally escaped from gardens. Introduced from South America. Summer. Cultivated in a large number of forms differing in color and size of flow- ers. Rose- or Kentucky-moss. Showy portulaca. French pussley. Wax-pinks. Mexican rose. Family 23. ALSINACEAE Wahl. Fl. Suec. 2: LXXIV. 1824. Chickweed Annual or perennial herbs with opposite entire leaves, estipulate or stipulate, and mostly small perfect flowers, solitary or in cymes or umbels. Calyx of 4 or 5 sepals, imbricated, at least in the bud, separate to the base, or nearly so. Petals as many as the sepals, not clawed, rarely wanting. Stamens twice as many as the sepals, or fewer, inserted at the base of the sessile ovary, or on a small disk; filaments distinct, or cohering below; anthers introrse, longitudinally dehiscent. Ovary usually i-celled; styles 2-5, distinct; ovules several or numerous, amphi- tropous or campylotropous, borne on a central column. Fruit a capsule, dehiscent by valves or by apical teeth. Embryo mostly curved and with incumbent cotyledons. .\bout 32 genera and 500 species, of wide distribution, most abundant i
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