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Identifier: nativeflowersfer02meeh (find matches)
Title: The native flowers and ferns of the United States in their botanical, horticultural and popular aspects
Year: 1879 (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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s made grew inMassachusetts, and was furnished to us by Mr. Jackson Dawson.The flowers on it are not half the size of those from NorthCarolina, figured in the Botanical Magazine. The Grass-Pink is not only beautiful, as its botanical nameimplies, but it is also sweet, and may serve as a text to thosewho believe that beauty sometimes is more than skin-deep.It flowers in June and July, and is found in cold, peaty bogs allthe way across from Maine to Minnesota, southward throughNebraska to Arkansas, but avoiding Kansas, and thence in asoutheasterly direction to Florida. It is very rare indeed inCentral and Western New York, and in many other placeswithin the limits named. Explanation of the Plate. — i. Root, showing old tuber of last year, which decays assoon as the new one of the present year is fully formed. — 2. Outline plan of a flower,enlarged. — 3. Side view of a flower. — 4. The incurved column, showing liow it iswinged at the ape.x. — 5. Scape, with flowers. )L ,n Plate
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Orontium AQUATICUM. L Prang & Company. Boston. ORONTIUM AQUATICUM. GOLDEN CLUB. NATURAI. OKDEK. ARACE/lv Orontium AQUATtCUM, Linnaius. — Leaves lanceolate, six to nine inches by two to threeinches, smooth, o£ a deep green, velvet-like surface above, paler beneath, on long, radicalpetioles. Scape thick and terete, about a foot in length, closely invested by a short sheathat base, and ending in a spadi.c of a rich yellow color, covered with small, perfect, yellowflowers of an offensive odor, — the upper ones often tetramerous. (Woods Class-Boo/; ofBotany. See also Grays MitJiiuil of the Botany of the Northern Umtcd States, and Chai)-mans /^/oni of the Southern United States.)
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