RUE FAMILY 119 



5, petals 5, stamens 5, sensitive. Capsule tiny, roundish. 

 Stems slender, 1-2 ft. tall. Leaves chiefly alternate, narrow, 

 short, erect. Low grounds. Blooming from midwinter to 

 fall. Fla. 



WOOD-SORREL FAMILY (OxaUdaceae) 



Our species of wood-sorrel are found chiefly on road- 

 sides and in waste grounds. They are low plants, with 

 acid juice, small three-foliate leaves, and small yellow 

 flowers of five sepals, five petals, and ten stamens, five of 

 which are shorter than the others. 



Oxalis stricta, sl common weed, has fruiting-pedicels 

 that are sharply bent down, so that the top of the flower- 

 ing-stem, the pedicel, and the erect capsule form a capital 

 N. The pedicels are minutely hairy with appressed hairs. 

 0. corniculata has ascending fruiting pedicels, which are 

 hairy with spreading hairs. 



MALPIGHIA FAMILY (Malpiffhmceae) 



Byrsonima lucida. Locust-berry. Evergreen shrub or tree. 

 Leaves opposite, entire, short-stalked, leathery, shining, 

 broadened upward, about 1 in. long. Flowers white, chang- 

 ing to yellow and rose, in short terminal racemes. Sepals 5, 

 petals 5, less than ^/^ in. long, broadly fan-shaped, on slender 

 claws, stamens 10, united below. Fruit a small drupe. Sandy 

 soil. Blooming in spring and summer. Southern peninsula 

 Fla. 



RUE FAMILY (Rutaceae) 



Trees. Leaves alternate, aromatic, of several or many leaflets. 

 Flowers minute, in panicles. 



This family, to which the citrus trees and the white 

 sapote (Casimiroa) belong, is represented in the native 

 flora of the peninsula chiefly by the prickly ash and the 



