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.

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by Mr. J. Williamson. Inthe dells of the Wisconsin it is very common, according to Mr.Copeland. This wide distribution of our species shows that themethods adopted for its propagation by Nature have given verysatisfactory results. The plant loves rocks and trees, and isfound more frequently on the latter, and on old stumps andlogs, as we go northward. Our drawing was made from a specimen gathered from atree in Massachusetts. In rocky situations in Pennsylvania thefronds are shorter, and their upper surfaces are of a deepergreen. Our artist has made a very pretty picture of the plant,while at the same time he has kept in view the presentation ofevery important botanical character. This species is very generally known as the Common Poly-pody, and in our large cities, to which the fronds are broughtin large quantities in winter, for use in cut-flower work, it isalso frequently called Evergreen Fern, although there areseveral other ferns to which this name is also given. /oL. n. Plate 42.
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CoLLiNSONiA Canadensis L.PRflNG Sc Company, Boston COLLINSONIA CANADENSIS. COLLINSONS FLOWER. NATURAL ORDER, LABIAT^E. (LAMIACE/E OF LIXDLEY.) CoLLiNsoNiA Canadensis, Linnaeus. — Leaves ovate, acuminate, coarsely serrate, petiolate,thin and smoothish; racemes elongated, many-flowered; flowers pedicellate, axillary, andopposite ; stem two to three feet high, somewhat branched, smoothish below, pubescentabove; leaves four or five to eight or ten inches long, and three to five inches wide,resinous dotted beneath; petioles one to three or four inches long, the leaves at the baseof the panicle smaller and subsessile; flowers loosely racemose; pedicels one third to oneinch long, with minute, lance-ovate, acuminate bracts at the base; corolla greenish-yellow,the lower lip fringed. (Darlingtons Flora CistrUa. See also Grays Manual of theBolaiiv of the Northern United States, Chapmans Flora of the Southern United States, andWoods Class-Book of Botany.) HE genus Collinsonia is truly American,

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