A Flora of North America, Vol. 3: Illustrated by Coloured Figures, Drawn from Nature (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Flora of North America, Vol. 3: Illustrated by Coloured Figures, Drawn From NatureThe whole plant, except the petals, more or less scabrous with short barbed hairs. Biennial, root long, succulent and fusiform. Stem irregularly angular and much branched, two to four feet high. Leaves alternate, sessile, oblong-lanceolate, interruptedly and sinuately pin natifid, six to eight inches long, segments three to six lines in length, incurved, generally with one or two dentures on the lower side, uppermost leaves ovate-lanceolate, or dilated at the base. Calix in separably investing the germ, border five-cleft, superior, segments lanceolate, acuminate, persistent, an inch long. Flowers odorous, yel lowish-white, of uncommon magnitude almost resembling some species of Cactus, solitary and terminal, sessile. Petals ten, lanceolate-ovate.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.