88 LIMNANTHACEAE (FALSE MERMAID FAMILY) 



margins ; flowers white, in a single close spike. Rocky 

 soil. May to July. 



ETJPHORBIACEAE (SPURGE FAMILY) 



Herbs with milky juice, mostly apetaloits flowers and 

 ^-celled ovary. The fruit a $-lobed capsule. 



EUPHORBIA 



Herbs with peduncles terminal, often in umbellate 

 clusters. Flowers monoecious, included in a cup- 

 PoiygaiaSen- shaped, 4 or 5 lobed involucre resembling a calyx or 

 ega, Seneca corolla. Staminate flowers numerous, lining the base 

 snakeroot. Q f the mvo i ucre> Pistillate flowers solitary, in the 

 middle of the involucre, soon -protruded on a long pedicel. 



E. Cyparissias, CYPRESS SPURGE. Stems densely clustered, from 

 running rootstocks, reaching 3 dm. in height, crowded with linear, 

 entire leaves ; floral leaves heart-shaped ; umbels 

 many-rayed ; glands crescent-shaped. Escaped from 

 gardens. 



LIMNANTHACEAE (FALSE MERMAID FAMILY) 



Low herbs with alternate, pinnate leaves, per- 

 fect, regular flowers with 3 to 6 parts. Glands 

 alternate with the petals. Carpels nearly dis- 



. , . , , , a i Euphorbia Cyparis- 



tinct, but with a common style, becoming fleshy sias cy press 

 and separating from the short axis. spurge. 



FLOERKEA 



Small shrubs with minute, solitary flowers on axillary peduncles. 

 Sepals 3. Petals 3, shorter than the calyx. Stamens 6. Ovaries 

 3, united only at base. Fruit composed of 3 roughish achenes. 



F. proserpinacoides, FALSE MERMAID. Leaflets 3 to 5, lanceolate, 

 sometimes 2 to 3 cleft. Marshes and river banks. April to June. 



