GENUS i. 



JEWEL-WEED FAMILY. 



2. Impatiens pallida Nutt. Pale Touch- 

 me-not. Fig. 2686. 



Impatiens pallida Nutt. Gen. i : 146. 1818. 



Impatiens aurea S. Wats. Bibl. Ind. 152, as a 

 synonym. 1878. Not /. aurea Muhl. 1813. 



Similar to the preceding species, but larger 

 and stouter. Flowers pale yellow, sparingly 

 dotted with reddish-brown, or sometimes dot- 

 less, I2"-I5" long; saccate sepal dilated-conic, 

 about as broad as long, abruptly contracted 

 into a short scarcely incurved notched spur, 

 less than one-third its length ; bracts of the 

 pedicels lanceolate to ovate, acute. 



In similar situations, most abundant northward. 

 Nova Scotia to Saskatchewan, Georgia and Kansas, 

 July-Sept. Snapweed. Balsam. Wild balsam or 

 celandine. Silverweed. Slippers. Quick-in-the- 

 hand. Jewelweed. 



Family 65. LIMNANTHACEAE Lindl. Nat. Syst. Ed. 2, 142. 1836. 



FALSE MERMAID FAMILY. 



Annual herbs, with alternate petioled exstipulate pinnately divided leaves. 

 Flowers perfect, regular, white, pink or red, axillary, long-peduncled. Sepals 

 2-5, valvate, persistent. Petals the same number as the sepals, alternating with 

 as many small glands, the nearly perigynous stamens twice as many, distinct. 

 Filaments filiform ; anthers 2-celled, the sacs longitudinally dehiscent. Carpels 

 as many as the sepals and opposite them, i-ovuled, nearly distinct, the single 

 slender style arising from the centre as in Geraniaceae, cleft above into as many 

 stigmas as there are carpels ; ovule ascending. Fruit very deeply 2-5-lobed, the 

 carpels indehiscent, rough or tubercled. Embryo straight ; endosperm none ; coty- 

 ledons thick. 



Two North American genera, the following, and Limnanthes, of the Pacific States, with about 

 9 species. The family was placed in the order SAPINDALES in our first edition, but is here brought 

 into its more natural place in the GERANIALES. 



i. FLOERKEA Willd. Neue Schrift. Ges. Nat. Fr. 3: 448. 1801. 



Annual diffuse glabrous herbs with small white solitary flowers. Sepals 3, valvate. 

 Glands 3. Petals 3, oblong, entire. Stamens 4-6. Ovary 2-3-lobed nearly to the base, 

 2-3-celled ; stigmas 2-3. Mature carpels 1-3, rugose, indehiscent, fleshy. Seed erect. [In 

 honor of H. G. Floerke, 1790-1835, a German botanist.] 



Two species, the following typical one, and the closely related F. occidentalis Rydb., of the 

 western United States. 



i. Floerkea proserpinacoides Willd. 

 Fig. 2687. 



False Mermaid. 



Floerkea prosperpinacoides Willd. Neue Schrift. Ges. Nat. Fr. 3 : 

 448. 1 80 1. 



Slender, weak, 4'-is' long, branching. Leaves thin, slender- 

 petioled, '-3' long, the segments 5 or 3, distant, lanceolate, 

 oblong or linear-oblong, acute or obtusish, entire or cleft; 

 peduncles slender, elongating in fruit ; flowers white, about 

 \\" broad; sepals lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acute, at 

 length much exceeding the fruit; stamens about equalling the 

 petals; ripe carpels nearly globular, about ii" in diameter, 

 tuberculate above. 



In marshes and along rivers, Quebec to Ontario, Wisconsin, 

 Delaware, Tennessee and Missouri. April-June. 



