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API'KNDIX. 



[Vol., III. 



[Vol. 2: p. II.] na. Silene conica L 

 Striate, or Corn Catchfly. (Fig. 1450a.) 



Silene conica h. Sp. PI. 118. 1753. 



AiiiiiKi/, canescent or puberulenl; stems solitary, 

 or several together, erect, commouly forked above, 

 6'-24' higb. Leaves linear-lanceolate, acute, sessile, 

 ij^' long, or less, about 1%" wide; inflorescence 

 cytnose; flowers i-several: pedicels %'-l' long; culyx 

 OT'oid, roiiiulfd or tntncaif tit the tuise, fterise/y ahoitt 

 30 iierfeil. its teelli triangular-subulate; petals rose, 

 oheoriliite : capsule oblong-ovoid.distending the calyx 

 and nearly equalling it. 



Clyde. Ohio. .Xdventive or naturalized from Hurope. 

 June-July. 



[Vol. 2: p. 60.] 3a. Delphinium 



Nelsoni Greene. Nelson's Larkspur. 



(Fig. 1564a.) 



Delphinium Nelsoni Greene, Pittonia, 3:92. 1896. 



Finely puberulent, at least above; stem slen- 

 der, simple, H'-l]2° high /><)w o rlmter of tnhei- 

 oits roots near the surface of the ground. Leaves 

 firm, t/ie lo-,i.'er />et/<itely diviili:d into linear lohes 

 or segments, long-petioled, the petioles sheath- 

 ing the stem, the upper short-petioled, less di- 

 vided; flowers in the upper axils aud forming a 

 loose terminal raceme, blue, slightlj' villous, 

 slcnder-pedicelled; lower pedicels i'~2' long, 

 longer than the flowers; sepals oblong, shorter 

 than the slender spur; lo-ver petal l-eleft, -eitli 

 (f tuft of hairs about the middle \ follicles 3, ap- 

 pressed-pubescent; seeds wing-angled above 



Wyoming^, western Nebraska and Colorado. May 



[Vol. 2: p. 117.] loa. MYAGRUM L. Sp. PI. 640. 1753. 

 An annual glabrous glaucous branching herb, with entire or undulate oblong to lanceo- 

 late leaves, the lower petioled, the upper sessile aud deeply auricled at the base. Flowers 

 small, yellow, in elongating racemes; pedicels short, erect-ascending, bractless. Sepals 

 nearly erect. Petals short; longer stamens somewhat connate in pairs. Silicle obcuncate 



to spatulate, flattened, indehiscent, falsely 3-celled, i- 

 sceded, tipped by the short style. Seed pendulous; 

 cotyledons incumbent. [Greek, a fly-trap.] 



.\ nionotypic genus of soutbeni and central Europe and 

 western Asia. 



I. Myagrum perfoliatum L. Myagrum. 

 (Fig. 1699a.) 



Myagrum ferfolialum L. Sp. PI. 640. 1753. 



Lower leaves oblong, narrowed into petioles; upper 

 leaves 2'-5' long, Y^'-V wide, obtuse or acutish at the 

 apex, the basal auricles mostly rounded; racemes, in 

 fruit, elongating to several inches in length; pedicels 

 I "-2" long, 2-3 limes shorter than the pods, equalling 

 oralittle longer than the calyx; longer stamens about 

 equalling the petals. 



In waste places about Quebec. Fugitive or adventive 

 from I'urope. Summer. 



