WOOTON AND STANDLEY FLORA OF NEW MEXICO. 405 



2. Stillingia smallii Woot. & Standi. » 



Stillingia sylvatica salicifolia Torr. ; Small, Fl. Southeast. U. S. 704. 1903. 



Stillingia salicifolia Small, loc. cit., not Baill. 1865. 



Type locality: "In sandy soil, Kansas to Arkansas and Texas." 



Range: Kansas and Arkansas to eastern New Mexico. 



New Mexico: Nara Visa; Roswell. Plains and low hills, in the Upper Sonoran 

 Zone. 



15. BERNARD IA P. Br. 



Low, much branched shrub with alternate stipulate stellate-pubescent ovate-oblong 

 repand-dentate short-petiolate leaves and small dioecious flowers in axillary racemes; 

 staminate calyx 3-parted; stamens 3 to 20; ovary 3-celled, 3-ovuled; seeds not carun- 

 culate. 



1. Bernardia myricaefolia (Scheele) Benth. & Hook. Gen. PI. 3: 308. 1883. 



Tyria myricaefolia Scheele, Linnaea 25: 581. 1852. 



Type locality: New Braunfels, Texas. 



Range: Western Texas and southeastern New Mexico to Mexico. 



New Mexico: Queen; San Andreas Mountains. Dry hills, in the Lower Sonoran 

 Zone. 



82. CALLITRICHACEAE. Water starwort Family. 



1. CALLITRICHE L. Water starwort. 



Small aquatic herbs with opposite entire leaves and minute solitary polygamous 

 flowers in the axils; flowers without calyx or corolla, the staminate ones with a single 

 stamen subtended by 2 bracts, the pistillate ones bearing a single pistil with a 4-celled 

 ovary; styles united in pairs; fruit in ours globose, sessile, 1.5 mm. in diameter. 



With us a single species with linear, sessile, submersed leaves and spatulate, rounded 

 or refuse emersed ones. 



1. Callitriche palustris L. Sp. PI. 969. 1753. 

 Callitriche autumnalis L. Fl. Suec. ed. 2. 2. 1755. 

 Type locality: "Habitat in Europae fossis paludibus." 

 Range: British America to New Mexico; also in Europe. 

 New Mexico: Horsethief Canyon; Taos; Costilla Valley; Brazos Canyon. In water. 



Order 81. SAPINDALES. 



KEY TO THE FAMILIES. 



Fruit a double samara; stamens alternate with the 



sepals; leaves opposite 85. ACERACEAE (p HO 



Fruit not a double samara; stamens opposite the 

 sfp.ils; leaves opposite i >r alternate. 

 Planfs with resiniferous tis>m- ; leave com- 

 pound 83. ANACARDIACEAE (p (06). 



Plants without resiniferous tissue; leaves com- 

 pound or simple. 



Leaf blades simple 84. CELASTRACEAE (p K) 



Leaf blades pinnate 86. SAPINDACEAE (p 41 



83. ANACARDIACEAE. Cashew Family. 



Shrubs, sometimes small, usually large with acrid, sometimes ; 

 polygamous or dioecious flow pinnately :'. to man] foliolate, exstipulate; 



flowers small, usually incon picuous, in crowded clu ten, th< e imetii 

 i 3 i" 7 ■ I'M . pel da of the ime oumbei as the • al 



