The Genera of North American Plants: And a Catalogue of the Species, to the Year 1817, Τόμος 2

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Σελίδα 53 - Hab. On the plains of the Missouri, common, from the confluence of the River Platte to the Mountains.
Σελίδα 251 - In the western parts of the State of New York, in the crevices of calcareous rocks...
Σελίδα 242 - ... dioecious, the staminate flowers with nine stamens in two series, the inner of which has three stamens, and the pistillate flowers with three sterile filaments and three ligulate bifid stigmas. He added further : " flowers very small and evanescent, the female emerging ; the male migratory, breaking off connection usually with the parent plant, it instantly expands to the light, the anthers also burst with elasticity and the granular pollen vaguely floats upon the surface of the water.
Σελίδα 72 - Commencing near the confluence of Paint Creek and the Missouri, growing on the talus of broken calcareous cliffs, from hence it occurs locally for 200 or 300 miles further up the river.
Σελίδα 51 - Carol bilabiate, ventricose. The fifth sterile filament longer than the rest and bearded on the upper side. Anthers smooth. Capsule ovate, 2-celled, 2-valved.
Σελίδα 234 - ... fruit consists of radiating, somewhat woody fibres, terminating in a tuberculated and slightly papillose surface. In this fibrous mass the seeds, which are nearly as large as those of a quince, are disseminated. We cannot pretend to say what part of the fruit has been described as the ' ' pulp which is nearly as succulent as that of an orange; sweetish, and perhaps agreeable when fully ripe.

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