GUNNERACEAE 953 
rowly ovoid, puberulent, the body 3-4 mm. long, sharply 4-angled above, nar 
rowed to a pedie s a od than the body. —Dry ig) and fields, vari- 
ous Donne. Fla. , Kans and N. C. (or Va.?).— fall. 
8. G. parviflora Dougl. Stem 6-35 dm. tall, villous-hirsute: leaf-blades lanceo- 
late, ovate-lanceolate or elliptic, 3.5—10 em. ii repand- i softly pubes- 
cent: buds oo or Bares! so: sepals 2-3 mm. long: petals 1.5—4 mm. long: 
fruit fusiform, 6-8 mm. long, 4-nerved, ee between the pes —Dry soil, 
fields, and roadsides, v various provinces, Ala. to Calif., Ore, and S. Dak.— 
(Alex. )-—Spr.- 
14. CIRCAEA [Tourn.] L. Perennial herbs. Leaves Ui blades 
mostly toothed, petioled. Flowers racemose. Sepals 2. Petals white, 
not Stamens 2, alternate with the petals. Ovary 1-2-ce e Fru it 
ched. 
obovoid, usually with hooked hairs—About 8 species, natives of the 
Northern Hemisphe 
en ees "alk blades ovate: bracts obsolete: fruit over 3 mm. long, 2- 
1. C. latifolia. 
Plant ‘succulent: leaf-biades cordate: bracts minute: fruit less than 
3 mm. long, 1-celled. 2. C. alpina. 
1. C. latifolia Hill Plant 3-6 dm. tall: leaf-blades ovate, 5-10 em. long, 
remotely denticulate: qd. 4-8 mm. long: corolla about 3 mm. NEU fruit 
bro oadly adi Ern e ut 4 one with 
stiff hair [C. aba CFL. SE. M 3] 
— (EN TM din NIGHTSHADE.) — "ui ich 
bru and thiekets, various provinces, bii 
to ans., S. D., Ont., 
0—C. o Ehrh. with ‘salienily toothed 
Be blades, ae mas les 
ordate, and nute ee 2 cn re- 
ported from Texas and may occur in our 
ange. 
5-5 e 
tate: pedicels 3—4 mm. long: coro ola about 
2 mm. br ruit narrow iy obovoid, about 
ad: : A ES 
2 mm. long, with soft hairs.—Cold woods, ES 
Blue I Ridge and more lm provinces, Ga. to Ind., S. Dak., Alas., and Lab.— 
(-Eurasia.)—Sum.-fall. 
Famity 9. GUNNERACHAE — ee FAMILY 
Perennial, or rarely annual, aqu r amphibious herbs. Leaves 
seats "to whorled: blades entire to dissected, often a kinds on the 
same plant. Flowers perfect or monoee Calyx 2—4 sepals. 
Corolla of 2-5 small petals, or wanting i of 1-8 relatively 
large stamens. Gynoecium of 1 of 2-4, sometimes united, carpels. 
Ovary inferior. Stigmas 1-4. — Eight genera and about 100 Species, 
widely distributed. 
Gynoecium 3-carpellary : stamens 3: flowers perfect. 1. PROSERPINACA. 
Gynoecium = a ane ey stamens 4 or 8: flowers monoecious or 
polygamo 2. MYRIOPHYLLUM. 
PROSERPINACA L. Herbs with stems decumbent or ereeping at 
base. Eo alternate: blades toothed or pectinate, sometimes both kinds on 
