Bellona Times
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their flowers consist of only two to four almost sessile white or purple anthers borne on the fleshy mucilaginous base of the the pistils are crowded together without calyx or corolla green globus and tipped with a sessile white stigma
occasionally a few stamens may be found above the pistils the fruit cluster when ripe is usually prostrate from one to three inches long and the berries are bright scarlet plucan appears to have been the first to figure this plant
and he described it in his phytographia in sixteen ninety one as arum trifilum minus atro rubente from plants sent to him by bannister from virginia linnaeus in his species plantarum seventeen fifty three quoted this description and called it arum trifilum it resembles some of the european species of arum and belongs to the
a family of plants, most of which are tropical in their distribution, and which includes about 105 genera and over 900 species, many of them being large and showy plants, often climbing on trees and rocks.
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Spring Beauty Reprinted from the Journal of New York Botanical Garden, June 1912.
spring beauty claytonia virginica in wet meadows on grassy banks and even shady woodlands the spring beauty covers the ground in may with quantities of white flowers it blooms consecutively for two or three weeks opening a new blossom every day gradually lengthening out its racemes till sometimes they have borne as many as fifteen flowers
these measure half an inch or more across have white or pale pink petals veined with rose color the stamens are five with pink anthers and the style is three lobed there are two fleshy spreading sepals and the pedicels lengthen gradually from one half to an inch in length and become reflexed as the three angled capsule matures
half way down the stem below the raceme two narrow fleshy leaves three or four inches long clasp the stem and a few basal ones arise from the large tuberous root which is buried rather deeply in the ground
Usually only the flowering stems are picked so that the plant survives, but it will make no seed and stand little chance of spreading.
The seeds are brown, reniform, slightly roughened, and the embryo is curved.
The spring beauty was named by Linnaeus in 1753 in honor of John Clayton, an American botanist and correspondent, who wrote in 1743, A Flora of Virginia.
It was first figured by Plukene in his Photographia in 1691.
there are about twenty-five species of claytonia known to grow in northern north america of which three occur in the eastern united states one of these with broader leaves claytonia caroliniana mitchicks having about the same range as claytonia virginica from nova scotia southward along the alleghanies to georgia and texas
they belong to the purslane family or portulacaceae with which they agree in their fleshy leaves and flowers that bloom for a short time the family is a large one but the plants are usually small few of them with showy flowers like portulaca grandiflora which occasionally escapes from cultivation
Number three, Wild Pink, reprinted from the Journal of the New York Botanical Garden, July 1912.
Wild Pink, Celine Caroliniana Walt.
before the trees cast much shade while their greens are still so exquisitely fresh and varied a bright flash of color will attract the eye to the wild pink growing in hilly places on rocks or often in their cracks and crevices with the saxifrage
the beautiful rose-pink and size of its flowers renders it very conspicuous for it often makes a large patch or cushion with a number of stems about six to ten inches high each bearing from three to five showy flowers more than an inch across
each petal is wedge-shaped with a long pale-white basal claw enclosed in the tubular five-notched calyx and crowned at the summit of each claw by two erect white appendages
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