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APPENDIX. 



[Vol.. III. 



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



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



Silene conica L. Sp. PI. 418. 1753. 



Annual, canescent or puberulent; sterns solitary, 



or several together, erect, commonly forked above, 



6'-24 / high. Leaves linear-lanceolate, acute, sessile, 



1%' long, or less, about \yz" wide; inflorescence 



cymose; flowers 1 -several; pedicels X / -i / long; calyx 



ovoid, rounded or truncate at the base, densely about 



30 in irved, its teeth triangular-subulate; petals rose, 



<>bi ordate : capsule oblong-ovoid, distending the calyx 



and nearly equalling it. 



Clyde, Ohio. Adventive or naturalized from Europe. 

 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, '-l% high from a cluster of tuber- 

 ous roots near the surface of the ground. Leaves 

 firm, the lower fedatcly divided into linear lobes 

 or segments, long-petioled, the petioles sheath- 

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

 vided; flowers in the upper axils and forming a 

 loose terminal raceme, blue, slightly villous, 

 slender-pedicelled; lower pedicels i / -2 / long, 

 longer than the flowers; sepals oblong:, shorter 

 than the slender spur; lower petal i-cleft, with 

 a tuft of hairs about the middle; follicles 3, ap- 

 pressed-pubescent; seeds wing-angled above 



Wyoming, western Nebraska and Colorado. May-June. 



[Vol. 2: p. 117.] 10a. 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 and 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 obcuneate 



to spatulate, flattened, indehiscent, falsely 3-celled, 1- 

 seeded, tipped by the short style. Seed pendulous; 

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



A monotypic genus of southern and central Europe and 

 western Asia. 



i. Myagrum perfoliatum L,. Myagrum. 

 (Fig. 1699a.) 



Myagrum perfoliatum L. Sp. PI. 640. 1753. 



Lower leaves oblong, narrowed into petioles; upper 

 leaves 2 / ~5 / long, J^'-i' wide, obtuse or acutish at the 

 apex, the basal auricles mostly rounded; racemes, in 

 fruit, elongating to several inches in length; pedicels 

 \"-i" long, 2-3 times shorter than the pods, equalling 

 or a little longer than the calyx; longer stamens about 

 equalling the petals. 



In waste places about Quebec. Fugitive or adventive 

 from Europe. Summer. 



