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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ...New York (Brown) and Camden, N. J. (Parker, 1879; Martindale, 1879, 1880.)--Plate 29. 18. R. Obtusifolius, L.--Two or three feet high, erect; stem usually and sometimes strongly papillate; leaves somewhat undulate, ample or the lowest very large, broadly ovate, cordate, frequently acute, the often purple veins papillate, especially beneath; flowering branches sub-erect, sparingly leafy below; lower whorls loose and rather remote; pedicels slender, about twice as loug as the fruit, tumidly jointed toward the base, valves flexible, not very heavily veined, 2 to 3x4 to 5 mm., ovate-oblong, with 3 to 5 thin triangular teeth on each side, mostly confined to the lower half or two-thirds, the triangular entire apex mostly acute; callosities smooth, ovoid, scarcely reaching the middle of the valve, the largest one about 1 mm. broad, the other two usually very small; achene 1.3x2.2 mm.--Sp. i. (1753), 335; Meisner, DC. Prod. xiv. 53.--Roadsides, pastures, etc., everywhere in the Eixst; introduced from Europe.--Specimens examined from points in Canada, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, District of Columbia, Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Tennessee, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Idaho, Arkansas (Biyelow on Whipple's Exped.), Texas, (Reverchon, 1874), Oregon (Kellogg and Harford, 1869, 869).--Plate 30. Var. Discolor, Wallroth, with the stem purple and the leaves very red veined, like beet leaves, is only an extreme color form often not distinguishable in herbarium specimens. What is probably that, examined from Nova Scotia (Macoun, 1883), Vancouver Island (Macoun, 1887) and California (Kellogg, 1866). This appears to comprise the greater part of the R. sanguineus of American...
