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Identifier: illustratedflor03brit (find matches)
Title: An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934 Brown, Addison, 1830-1913
Subjects: Botany
Publisher: New York : Scribner
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto
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lyx ; clusters mostly axillary. i. M. parviflora. Corolla scarcely exceeding the calyx; clusters mostly terminal, dense. 2. M. Moldarica. I. Moldavica parviflora (Nutt.) Brit-ton. American Dragon-head.Fig- 3596. Dracocephalum parvifloriim Nutt. Gen. 2 : 35.1818. Annual or biennial, somewhat pubescent,or glabrous; stem rather stout, usuallybranched, 6-2\° high. Leaves lanceolate,ovate, or oblong, slender-petioled, serrate,or the lower incised, acute or obtuse at theapex, rounded or narrowed at the base,thin, i-3 long; clusters dense, many-flow-ered, crowded in dense terminal spikes,and sometimes also in the upper axils;bracts ovate to oblong, pectinate with awn-pointed teeth, shorter than or equalling thecalyx; pedicels i-2 long; upper tooth ofthe calyx ovate-oblong, longer than thenarrower lower and lateral ones, all acumi-nate ; corolla light blue, scarcely longerthan the calyx. In dry gravelly or rocky soil, Quebec andOntario to Alaska. New York, Iowa, Missouriand Arizona. May-Aug.
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Genus 12. MINT FAMILY
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