Capparidaceae, Caper Family, 
Herbs with alternate, mostly palmate leaves, Flowers perfect, 
commonly racemose, Sepals 4, distinct or lightly united at the base, 
Petals 4, more or less clawed. Stamens commonly 6, all equal, Ovary 
superior, l-chambered. Fruit a pod with 2 parietal placentae and no par=-- 
tition, dehiscent in our species, Seeds kidney-shaped, 
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Tall erect annuals, Leaves palmately trifoliolate, petioled. Flowers 
in terminal racemes, showy. Petals subequal, shortly clawed, Anthers linear, 
becoming coiled, Receptacle produced into an erect appendage between the 
petals and stamens, Ovary shortly stalked, Pods linear-oblong, many-seeded, 
1. C. serrulata Pursh, Stinking Clover, Anmal,50-60 om, tall,wilt Tu 
mostly simple; leaflets narrowly elliptical or elliptical-oblong, about 3 cm, 
long, acute at both ends, entire, both surfages glabrous or minutely puberulent, 
the lower paler; flowers on filiform peduncles 1-2 om, longs sepals broadly ovate, 
2.0 mm, long, shortly aristate, joined below the middle$ petals rose-colored, 
ovate, about 1 cm, long; appendage of the receptacle ligulate, sometimes with 
1 or 2 teeth, about 1/3-1/2 the length of the petals; stamons 6 (sometimes 
with 1 or 2 smaller), filaments filiform, anthers exserted, ovary on a stipe 
about 1 ma, long, elongating rapidly after anthesis; pod 4-6 om, long, 3-3.5 mm, 
wide, flattened, acute at both ends, the stipe subequal to the pedicel; seeds 
5-4 mm, in diameter, (Peritomum serrulatum DC.). 
Scarcely proper to our region, an entrant from the sagebrush plains, ————” 
—» Sandy soil, S. end of Lake Pend Oreille, Sandberg, et al, 
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