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  KEY 
  AND 
  FLORA 
  

  

  VI. 
  LITHOSPERMUM 
  L. 
  

  

  Herbs, 
  with 
  stout, 
  usually 
  reddish 
  roots. 
  Flowers 
  appearing 
  

   axillary 
  and 
  solitary 
  or 
  else 
  in 
  leafy-bracted 
  spikes. 
  Corolla 
  

   funnel-shaped 
  or 
  salver-shaped, 
  with 
  or 
  without 
  folds 
  or 
  

   appendages 
  at 
  the 
  mouth 
  of 
  the 
  tube 
  ; 
  the 
  limb 
  5-cleft, 
  its 
  

   divisions 
  rounded. 
  Stamens 
  included 
  in 
  the 
  corolla 
  tube, 
  the 
  

   anthers 
  nearly 
  sessile. 
  Nutlets 
  either 
  smooth 
  or 
  wrinkled, 
  

   generally 
  very 
  hard 
  and 
  bony. 
  

  

  1. 
  L. 
  arvense 
  L. 
  CORN 
  GROMWELL. 
  A 
  rough 
  weed, 
  about 
  1 
  ft. 
  

   high. 
  Leaves 
  narrowly 
  lanceolate. 
  Flowers 
  inconspicuous, 
  whitish, 
  

   in 
  the 
  upper 
  leaf 
  axils. 
  Corolla 
  hardly 
  extending 
  beyond 
  the 
  calyx, 
  

   without 
  appendages 
  in 
  the 
  throat. 
  Nutlets 
  rough 
  or 
  wrinkled 
  and 
  

   dull. 
  Sandy 
  banks 
  and 
  roadsides; 
  naturalized 
  from 
  Europe. 
  

  

  2. 
  L. 
  Gmelini 
  Hitchc. 
  HAIRY 
  PUCCOON. 
  Rough-hairy, 
  perennial, 
  

   1-2 
  ft. 
  high. 
  Corolla 
  deep 
  orange-yellow, 
  with 
  appendages 
  in 
  the 
  

   throat 
  and 
  clad 
  with 
  wool 
  within 
  at 
  the 
  bottom; 
  flowers 
  handsome, 
  

   peduncled, 
  in 
  a 
  crowded 
  cluster. 
  Dry, 
  open 
  pine 
  woods, 
  in 
  sandy 
  soil. 
  

  

  3. 
  L. 
  canescens 
  Lehm. 
  PUCCOON, 
  INDIAN 
  PAINT. 
  Perennial 
  ; 
  

   clothed 
  with 
  soft 
  hairs, 
  8-12 
  in. 
  high. 
  Flowers 
  axillary 
  and 
  sessile. 
  

   Corolla 
  appendaged, 
  not 
  woolly 
  within, 
  showy, 
  orange-yellow. 
  Banks 
  

   and 
  open 
  woods. 
  

  

  4. 
  L. 
  angustifolium 
  Michx. 
  NARROW-LEAVED 
  PUCCOON. 
  Peren- 
  

   nial; 
  rough, 
  6-18 
  in. 
  high, 
  from 
  a 
  deep 
  root. 
  Leaves 
  linear, 
  sessile, 
  

   acute 
  or 
  nearly 
  so. 
  Flowers 
  pediceled 
  in 
  terminal 
  leafy 
  racemes 
  of 
  

   two 
  kinds, 
  the 
  earlier 
  showy, 
  bright 
  yellow, 
  with 
  a 
  corolla 
  tube 
  an 
  

   inch 
  or 
  more 
  long 
  ; 
  the 
  latter 
  much 
  smaller, 
  pale 
  yellow, 
  cleistoga- 
  

   mous, 
  fruiting 
  abundantly. 
  Pedicels 
  of 
  the 
  cleistogamous 
  flowers 
  at 
  

   length 
  recurved. 
  Nutlets 
  ovoid, 
  white, 
  very 
  smooth, 
  slightly 
  pitted. 
  

   In 
  dry 
  soil 
  W. 
  

  

  VII. 
  ONOSMODIUM 
  Michx. 
  

  

  Mostly 
  rough-hairy 
  perennial 
  herbs. 
  Leaves 
  sessile, 
  entire, 
  

   with 
  prominent 
  veins. 
  Flowers 
  rather 
  small, 
  white, 
  greenish 
  

   or 
  yellowish, 
  in 
  leafy 
  one-sided 
  spikes 
  or 
  racemes. 
  Calyx 
  5- 
  

   parted 
  into 
  linear 
  divisions. 
  Corolla 
  tubular 
  or 
  tubular-funnel- 
  

   form, 
  with 
  5 
  acute 
  erect 
  lobes. 
  Stamens 
  5, 
  perigynous, 
  not 
  

   projecting 
  from 
  the 
  corolla 
  tube. 
  Style 
  thread-like, 
  decidedly 
  

   projecting. 
  Nutlets 
  usually 
  only 
  1 
  or 
  2, 
  white, 
  smooth 
  and 
  

   shining. 
  

  

  1. 
  0. 
  virginianum 
  A. 
  DC. 
  Stems 
  rather 
  slender, 
  1-3 
  ft. 
  high, 
  cov- 
  

   ered 
  witli 
  rough, 
  stiff 
  bristles. 
  Leaves 
  oblong 
  or 
  oblong-lanceolate, 
  

  

  