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Identifier: nativeflowersfer01meeh (find matches)
Title: The native flowers and ferns of the United States in their botanical, horticultural and popular aspects
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Meehan, Thomas, 1826-1901
Subjects: Wild flowers -- United States Ferns -- United States
Publisher: Boston : L. Prang and Co.
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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nsylvania its southern limit, but it isincluded in old lists of the flora of the District of Columbia,though not in the catalogue of the modern Potomac NaturalistsField Club. It has not been the writers privilege to find it wildanywhere himself, and the specimen from which the accompany-ing drawing was made was gathered in the neighborhood ofBoston by Mr. Jackson Dawson. - The specific name palustris is, of course, in reference to themarshy places in which the plant grows. Its common name inEngland, according to Mr. Robinson, is Bog-Arum. Dr. Graygives the common name in New England as Water-Arum.As we have to choose between the tvvo, and Mr. Robinson saysit grows better in wet land than in water, we have placed Bog-Arum at the head of our description. Explanation of the Plate.— i. Rhizome and complete plant.— 2. Scape, with fruitapproaching maturity. — 3. Single flower, with stamens and ovary magnified. — 4. Crosssection of the ovary, showing portion of the ovules. Vol, Plate
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Euphorbia corollata. L. Ppako & Company, Boston EUPHORBIA COROLLATA. FLOWERING SPURGE. NATURAL ORDER, EUPHORBIACEiE. Euphorbia corollata, L. — Erect; cauline and floral leaves oblong, narrow, obtuse; glandsof the involucre obovate, petaloid; umbel five-rayed, rays two or three times di- or tri-chotomous; stem slender, erect, one to two feet high, generally simple and smooth; leavesone to two inches long, often quite linear, very entire, scattered on the stem, verticillate,and opposite in the umbel; the umbel is generally quite regularly subdivided; corolla-like involucre large, white, showy. (Woods Class-Book of Botaiiv. See also GraysManual of the Botany of the Northern United States, and Chapmans Flora of theSouthern United States.) Mt t URING the wars between Caesar and Pompey, one of

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