WILD FLOWERS OF NEW YORK 



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Flowers small, one-third to one- 

 half of an inch long, white, green- 

 ish white or pale yellow with a 

 rather bright yellow apex to the 

 flower, borne on short stalks in 

 the upper axils of the leaves, or in 

 terminal, leafy-bracted clusters. 

 Calyx bell-shaped with four long, 

 slender teeth. Corolla tubular, 

 enlarging above, two-lipped, the 

 upper lip not lobed, the lower 

 lip three-toothed and spreading. 

 Stamens four in two pairs of 

 unequal length, ascending under 

 the upper lip. Fruit a flat, 

 oblique capsule, about one-third 

 of an inch long with a rather 

 long beak, two to four-seeded. 

 Common in dry woods 

 and thickets, Nova Scotia to 

 British Columbia, south to 

 Georgia, Tennessee, Iowa and 

 Idaho. Flowering from July to 

 September. 



Bladderwort Family 



L e n t i b u 1 a r i a c e a e 

 The Bladderworts, of which 

 there are at least fourteen species 

 in New York, form a very inter- Figure XXIX 



esting group of plants. Few of Horned Bladderwort 



them, however, have conspicuous (Stomoisia cornuta (Michaux) Rafinesque) 



