CARYOPHYLLACEAE (PINK FAMILY) 



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shaped leaves on long petioles, and a short-peduncled flower close 

 to the ground in the lower axil. Early spring. 



A. canadense, WILD GINGER. Soft pubescent. Leaves kidney- 

 shaped, more or less pointed. Calyx bell-shaped, brown, purple inside. 

 Common in rich woods. 



POLYGONACEAE (BUCKWHEAT FAMILY) 



Herbs with alternate entire leaves, and stipules in the form of 

 sheaths above the swollen joints of the stem. The flowers mostly 

 perfect, with a more or less persistent calyx. The fruit is usually 

 an achene f compressed or 3-4 angled or winged. 



RUMEX 



Coarse herbs, with small and unattractive flow- 

 ers, mostly green, crowded and commonly 

 whorled in racemes. 



R. acetosella, FIELD SORREL. A common low 

 weed, 1-3 dm. high. The leaves are narrow-lance- 

 olate or linear, halberd-form, at least the lowermost, 

 the narrow lobes entire and widely spreading. The 

 pedicels are jointed at the summit. The sepals are 



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scarcely enlarged in the fruit, and are exceeded in 

 length by the naked achene. Sterile soil, common. 



acetosella, 

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inmate flowers, 



p i st iiiate flowers 

 fruit, and leaf. 



CAKYOPHYLLACEAE (PINK FAMILY) 



Herbs with opposite entire leaves, usually 5 sepals (united or 

 separate}, 5 petals, 10 stamens (sometimes fewer}, 2-5 styles, 

 and a i-celled ovary becoming a pod. 



ARENARIA 



Low, usually tufted herbs, with sessile leaves and small white 

 flowers. Sepals 5. Petals 5, entire, sometimes barely notched, 

 rarely wanting. Stamens 10. Styles 3, opposite the sepals. Pod 

 short, splitting into as many or twice as many valves as there 



