96 Juglandaceae 



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. Californica H. & A. Stem 15-50 cm. long, with a broad- 

 ly ovate clapping 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; involu- 

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

 floral bracts white, obovate, unguiculate, 5-6 mm. long ; ovules 

 6-10 on each placentia. 



Frequent in wet saline places throughout our range. March-August. 



Family 14. JUGLANDACEAE. Walnut Family. 



Trees or shrubs, with alternate pinnately compound 

 leaves and monoecious hraeteolate flowers, the staminate 

 in long drooping aments, the pistillate solitary or sev- 

 eral together. Staminate flower consisting of 3-numer- 

 ous stamens, with or without an irregularly Lobed peri- 

 anth adnate to the hractlet. Anthers erect, 2-celled, 

 dehiscent by a longitudinal slit ; filaments short. Pis- 

 tillate flowers bracted and usually 2-bracteolate, with a 

 3-5-lobed (usually 4-lobed) calyx, or without both calyx 

 and petals. Ovary inferior, 1-cellcd or incompletely 



