WILD FLOWKKS OF NEW YORK l (; | 



Kneiffia linearis (Alichaux) Spach, with pedicels of the fniil 

 shorter than the cai)sule; leaves very narrow, and Kneiffia p u m i 1 a 

 (Linnaeus) Spach, witli small flowers one-lialf to i inch broad and almost 

 sessile club-shaped fruit pods. 



Biennial Gaura 



Gaiira biennis Linnaeus 



Plate 14S 



Stems slender, erect, 2 to 5 feet his;h, branched, especially above, 

 and downy or softly hairy. Leaves alternate, sessile, narrow, pointed 

 at both ends, remotely toothed on the margins, 2 to 4 inches long and 

 one-sixth to one-half of an inch wide. Flowers white or whitish, turning 

 pink with age, very numerous in spikes terminating the stems and branches; 

 each flower somewhat less than one-half of an inch broad; calyx tube with 

 four reflexed lobes; petals four, oblanceolate, somewhat vmequal; stamens 

 eight, decUned, each slender filament with a small scale at the base; stigma 

 four-lobed, surrounded by a cuplike border. Fruit nutlike, sessile, one- 

 fourth to one-third of an inch long, narrowed at each end, four-ribbed 

 and hairy. 



In dry, sandy or waste soil, Quebec to Minnesota, south to Connecticut, 

 Georgia and Arkansas. Flowering from July to September. 



Ginseng Family 



A r a 1 i a c e a e 

 Dwarf Ginseng or Groundnut 



Panax trij'oliitin Linnaeus 



Plate i:i2h 



A small, smooth herb, 3 to 6 inches liigh from a deep-seated, globose. 

 perennial tuber, one-half of an inch or less in diameter and verj'' pvmgent 

 to the taste. Leaves three, at the summit of the slender stem on petioles 

 one-half to 2 inches long; each leaf with three to five oval or oblanceolate, 

 sessile, blunt leaflets, i to 2 inches long and one-fourth to two-thirds of 

 an inch wide, finely toothed on the margins. Flowers white, fifteen to 



