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Southcott's* Polymoniaceae


Polymoniaceae

Herbs with alternate leaves, and regular flowers. Seeds sticky when moistened and emitting spiral threads.

Diapensia Lapponica.---Corolla bell-shaped. A dwarf growing in very dense turfs. Stem terminated by a one-flowered peduncle. Corolla white.

Botany

*Mary Southcott. Some Newfoundland Wild Flowers.
St. John's, Newfoundland : Robinson and Company , 1915, p. 23-24