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A herb plant.

Spring Beauty

A herb plant.

The two-cleft calyx and pod of Claytonia or Spring Beauty, (Gray, 1858).

Claytonia Calyx

The two-cleft calyx and pod of Claytonia or Spring Beauty, (Gray, 1858).

Claytonia or Spring Beauty, (Gray, 1858).

Claytonia

Claytonia or Spring Beauty, (Gray, 1858).

This illustration shows cluster cups in a section of a leaf of spring beauty. At right one of the cups is ruptured, exposing the aeciospores. Below a small cup, pycnium, is discharging pycniospores that are possibly fuunctionless male gametes.

Claytonia

This illustration shows cluster cups in a section of a leaf of spring beauty. At right one of the cups…

Ripe pod of Claytonia or Spring Beauty, cut across, and splitting into three valves (Gray, 1858).

Claytonia Pod

Ripe pod of Claytonia or Spring Beauty, cut across, and splitting into three valves (Gray, 1858).