88 SAURURACEAE. 



4. EPIPACTUS R. Br. 



Leafy caulescent herbs from creeping rootstocks. 

 Flowers few, in a terminal leafy-bracted raceme. Peri- 

 anth spreading; sepals and petals similar; lip free, con- 

 cave at base, constricted at the middle, dilated and 

 petaloid above. Anther 1, sessile, back of the broad 

 truncate stigma, 2-celled; pollen masses becoming 

 attached to the gland on the small rounded beak of the 

 stigma. 



1. E. giganteum Dougl. Stems erect, 3-10 dm. high, sparsely 

 pubescent; lower leaves ovate, the upper lanceolate, 8-16 cm. long, 

 acute; flowers on short pedicels, greenish, veined with purple; sepals 

 ovate-lanceolate, 12-16 mm. long. 



Springy places in the foothills and mountains. 



Family 16. SAURURACEAE. Lizard-tail Family. 



Perennial herbs with broad entire alternate petioled 

 leaves and small perfect bracteolate flowers in peduncled 

 spikes. Perianth none. Stamens 6-8 or sometimes 

 fewer, hypogynous; anthers 2-celled, the sacs longitudi- 

 nally dehiscent. Ovary 3-4-carpelled ; the carpels dis- 

 tinct or united, 1-2-ovuled; ovules orthotropus. Fruit 

 capsular or berry-like, composed of 3-4 mostly indehis- 

 cent carpels. Seeds globose or ovoid; endosperm copi- 

 ous, mealy; embryo minute, cordate. 



1. ANEMOPSIS Hook. Yerba Manse. 



Stems nodose, scape-like, stoloniferous from aromatic 

 creeping rootstocks. Leaves mostly radical, minutely 

 punctate. Flowers in a compact spike surrounded at 

 the base by a persistent colored involucre of 5-8 bracts; 

 each flower except the lowest also surrounded by a small 

 colored bract. Stamens 6-8. Ovary sunk in the rachis 

 of the spike, 1 -celled; stigmas 3-4. Capsule dehiscent 

 at the apex. 



1. A. calif omica H. & A. Stem 15-50 cm. long, with a broadly- 

 ovate clasping leaf above the middle and a fascicle of 1-3 small 

 petioled leaves in the axil; basal leaves elliptic-oblong, rounded 

 above, more or less narrowed toward the cordate base, 5-15 cm. 

 long, on petioles 10-20 cm. long; spikes 1.5-4 cm. long; involucral 

 bracts white, often reddish beneath, oblong, 1-3 cm. long; floral 



