Pyxie moss flowers
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Item information
- Title:
- Pyxie moss flowers
- Description:
- Pyxie moss flowers; From Natural Gardens (page 380): "Very low, creeping perennials with white flowers solitary and terminating the numerous branchlets; stamens 5, attached to the corolla tube; pistil of 3 united carpels: leaves small, evergreen more or less overlapping. Two species: P. brevifolia (Fig. 83) forms flat compact mats in deep, dry sand; leaves very short, seldom over 1/16 in. long. Rare species only known from vicinity of Spout Springs, Harnett County, North Carolina. Early spring."
- Topics:
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Botany
- Subjects:
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Flowers
Wells' pyxie moss (Pyxidanthera brevifolia)
- Original Format:
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Hand colored lantern slide
- Extent:
- 3.25 x 4 in.
- Item identifier:
- 0021038
- Photographer:
- Wells, B. W. (Bertram Whittier), 1884-1978 more info on Wells, B. W. (Bertram Whittier), 1884-1978
- Created Date:
- circa to
- Genre:
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Close-up views
- Location:
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Spout Springs (N.C.)
- Digital Project:
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B. W. Wells
Source information
- Repository:
- Special Collections Research Center at NC State University Libraries
- Collection:
- B.W. Wells lantern slides (UA023.039) held by Special Collections Research Center at NC State University Libraries
- Note field:
- Not all materials from the physical collection may have been scanned. Images may have been enhanced for web access.
- Rights:
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