. 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. I. Gelsemium sempervirens (L.) Ait. f. Yellow Jessamine. Carolina Jasmine. Fig. 3326. Bignonia sempervirens L. Sp. PI. 623. 1753. C. lutidiim Michx. FI. Bor. .'"im. i : 120. 1803. C. sempervirens Ait. f. Hort. Kew. 2 : 64. 1811. Stem slender, climbing or trailing, sometimes 20° long. Leaves lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, entire, short-petioled
. 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. I. Gelsemium sempervirens (L.) Ait. f. Yellow Jessamine. Carolina Jasmine. Fig. 3326. Bignonia sempervirens L. Sp. PI. 623. 1753. C. lutidiim Michx. FI. Bor. .'"im. i : 120. 1803. C. sempervirens Ait. f. Hort. Kew. 2 : 64. 1811. Stem slender, climbing or trailing, sometimes 20° long. Leaves lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, entire, short-petioled, per- sistent, evergreen, ii'-3' long, s"-i2" wide; cymes I-6-flowered; pedicels short; bractlets several, dry, oblong or lanceolate, l"-2" long; flowers dimorphous ; sepals oblong, obtuse; corolla bright yellow, I'-ii' long; stigmas in one form short and anthers exserted, in the other form longer and anthers included; capsule flat, channeled on both sides, 4"-/" long, cuspidate; seeds very flat, broadly winged at the summit. In woods and thickets, eastern Virginia to Florida. Texas. Mexico and Guatemala, mostly near the coast. March-Oct. Called also Carolina wild woodbine, and evening trumpet-flower. 7. SPIGELIA L. Sp. PI. 149. 1753. Herbs, with opposite membranous entire pinnately veined leaves, small stipules, or the leaf-bases connected by a stipular line, and red yellow or purple flowers in scorpioid cymes or unilateral spikes, or terminal and in the forks of the branches. Calyx deeply 5-parted. Corolla narrowly funnelform, 5-lobed, the lobes valvate, the tube finely 15-nerved. Stamens 5, inserted on the corolla-tube; anthers 2-lobed at the base. Ovules numerous, on peltate pla- centae; style filiform, jointed near the middle, papillose above; stigma obtuse. Capsule didymous, 2-celled, somewhat flattened contrary to the dissepiment, circumscissile above the persistent base, the 2 carpels becoming 2-valved. Seeds peltate, not winged. [Named f
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