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  KEY 
  AND 
  FLORA 
  

  

  stem 
  leaves 
  palmately 
  divided. 
  Tnvolucel 
  none. 
  Flowers 
  pink 
  or 
  

   white, 
  about 
  1 
  in. 
  in 
  diameter. 
  Carpels 
  strongly 
  wrinkled. 
  In 
  dry 
  

   soil 
  W. 
  and 
  S.W. 
  

  

  2. 
  C. 
  digitata 
  Xutt. 
  FRINCKD 
  POPPY 
  MALLOW. 
  Resembling 
  

   C. 
  alcceoides. 
  Flowers 
  \\-"2 
  in. 
  in 
  diameter. 
  Petals 
  reddish-purple 
  

   to 
  white, 
  fringed. 
  In 
  dry 
  soil 
  S.W. 
  

  

  3. 
  C. 
  involucrata 
  Gray. 
  PURPLE 
  POPPY 
  MALLOW'. 
  Perennial. 
  

   Stems 
  1-2 
  ft. 
  high, 
  procumbent 
  or 
  ascending. 
  Leaves 
  round-heart- 
  

   shaped, 
  palmately 
  lobed 
  or 
  cut. 
  Involucel 
  3-leaved. 
  Peduncles 
  long, 
  

   slender, 
  and 
  1-flowered. 
  Flowers 
  reddish-purple, 
  1-2^ 
  in. 
  in 
  diameter. 
  

   Carpels 
  with 
  a 
  wrinkled 
  network. 
  In 
  dry 
  soil 
  W. 
  and 
  S.W. 
  

  

  66. 
  HYPERICACEJE. 
  ST. 
  JOHN'S-WORT 
  FAMILY 
  

  

  Herbs, 
  shrubs, 
  or 
  trees. 
  Leaves 
  opposite, 
  often 
  covered 
  

   with 
  translucent 
  or 
  dark 
  dots, 
  entire 
  or 
  with 
  glandular 
  teeth, 
  

   without 
  stipules. 
  Flowers 
  usually 
  in 
  terminal 
  cymes. 
  Sepals 
  

   5, 
  rarely 
  4. 
  Petals 
  as 
  many 
  as 
  the 
  sepals, 
  hypogynous. 
  

   Stamens 
  usually 
  many, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  grouped 
  in 
  bundles; 
  

   anthers 
  versatile. 
  Pod 
  1-celled, 
  with 
  2-5 
  parietal 
  placentae 
  

   and 
  the 
  same 
  number 
  of 
  styles, 
  or 
  else 
  3-7-celled, 
  split- 
  

   ting 
  along 
  the 
  partitions. 
  

  

  HYPERICUM 
  L. 
  

  

  Herbs, 
  shrubs, 
  or 
  small 
  trees. 
  Leaves 
  sessile, 
  often 
  dotted. 
  

   Flowers 
  yellow, 
  bisexual. 
  

   B. 
  Fl. 
  species 
  2 
  (Sarothra). 
  

  

  1. 
  H. 
  perforatum 
  L. 
  COMMON 
  ST. 
  JOHN'S-WORT. 
  Perennial. 
  Stem 
  

   erect, 
  1-3 
  ft. 
  high, 
  2-ridged, 
  much 
  branched. 
  Leaves 
  linear 
  or 
  oblong, 
  

   obtuse, 
  with 
  translucent 
  veins 
  and 
  dots. 
  Cymes 
  grouped 
  in 
  corymbs, 
  

   many-flowered. 
  Flowers 
  1 
  in. 
  in 
  diameter. 
  Sepals 
  acute. 
  Petals 
  

   much 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  sepals, 
  oblique 
  at 
  the 
  tip 
  and 
  irregularly 
  

   fringed. 
  A 
  common 
  weed 
  in 
  meadows 
  and 
  pastures 
  E. 
  and 
  N. 
  

   Naturali/.cil 
  from 
  Europe. 
  

  

  2. 
  H. 
  gentianoides 
  BSP. 
  ORANGE 
  GRASS, 
  PINEWEED. 
  Low 
  (4-9 
  

   in. 
  high), 
  slender 
  annual, 
  with 
  erect, 
  angled 
  or 
  almost 
  winged, 
  wiry 
  

   stem 
  and 
  branches. 
  Leaves 
  minute 
  awl-shaped 
  scales. 
  Corolla 
  about 
  

   } 
  in. 
  in 
  diameter, 
  usually 
  closing 
  by 
  or 
  before 
  midday. 
  Sandy 
  banks 
  

   and 
  roadsides. 
  

  

  