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 . 204 SCROPHULARIACEAE. Vol. 24. LEPTANDRA Nutt. Gen. i: 7. 1818. Tall stout erect perennial herbs, with verticillate or opposite leaves, and small minutelybracted white or blue flowers, in dense peduncled spike-like racemes, terminal, or in theupper axils. Calyx 4-parted, short. Corolla tubular, or salverform, nearly regular, 4-lobed,the tube cylindric, longer than the lo
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 . 204 SCROPHULARIACEAE. Vol. 24. LEPTANDRA Nutt. Gen. i: 7. 1818. Tall stout erect perennial herbs, with verticillate or opposite leaves, and small minutelybracted white or blue flowers, in dense peduncled spike-like racemes, terminal, or in theupper axils. Calyx 4-parted, short. Corolla tubular, or salverform, nearly regular, 4-lobed,the tube cylindric, longer than the lobes. Stamens 2, exserted, inserted low down on thecorolla-tube; filaments filiform; anthers obtuse, short. Style about as long as the stamens,stigma minute. Capsule narrowly ovoid, scarcely compressed, not emarginate nor obcordate,4-valved at the apex. Seeds numerous, oval, minutely reticulated. [Greek, slender stamens,referring to the filaments.] Two species, the following typical one native of eastern North America, the other of north-eastern Asia. I. Leptandra virglnica ( L.) Nutt. Beaumonts-,Bowmans- or Culvers-root. Fig. 3808. Veronica virginica L. Sp. PI. g. virginica Nutt. Gen. 1:7. 1818. Stem glabrous, or very nearly so, s
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