FRANKENIA FAMILY 565 



stamens usually 6; anther-cells elongate, oblong. Bluffs and plains: w Tex. 

 Colo. — Sonora. Son. Je-Jl. 



Family 85. CISTACEAE. Rock-rose Family. 



Shrubs or undershrubs. Leaves alternate or opposite. Flowers nearly 

 regular, usually perfect, solitary, racemose, clustered, or paniculate. Sepals 

 3-5, persistent. Petals 5 or 3, sometimes wanting, fugaceous. Stamens 8, 

 hypogynous. Gynoecium of several united carpels; ovary sessile, 1-several- 

 celled; ovules orthotropous; styles united; stigma entire or 3-lobed. Fruit 

 a capsule. Seeds several or numerous. Embryo slender; endosperm starchy 

 or fleshy. 



1. CROCANTHEMUM Spach. Frost-weed. 



Undershrubs. Leaves more or less coriaceous, entire, flat or revolute-margined. 

 Flowers of two kind, viz., some with large fugaceous petals and many stamens, 

 the others cleistogamous, apetalous or with small petals, and 3-10 stamens. 

 Styles obsolete or short; stigmas capitate or 3-lobed. Fruit a capsule. Embryo 

 curved. 



1. C. majus (L.) Britton. Hoary canescent herbs, slightly woody at the base, 

 3-6 dm. high; leaves oblanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 1.5-3.5 cm. long, stellate 

 on both sides, canescent beneath, greener above; petaliferous flowers 5-12, in 

 terminal cymes; sepals densely canescent, the outer nearly as long as the inner, 



{)etals yeUow, 7-9 mm. long, oval; apetalous flowers clustered in the axils of the 

 eaves, nearly sessile. H elianihemum majiis (L.) B.S.P. H. canadense Walkerae 

 W. H. Evans. Dry soil: Me.— Va— Tex.— €olo.— S.D. Plain^SubuwnL 



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Family 86. VIOLACEAE. Violet Faotly. 



Low herbs, or in the tropics woody. Leaves simple, alternate or basal, 

 with stipules. Flowers perfect, irregular. Sepals and petals 5; the latter 

 imbricate in bud, the lowermost spurred or saccate at the base. Stamens 

 5; anthers united or connivent. Gynoecium of 3 united carpels. Ovary 

 1-celled, with 3 parietal placentae. Capsule loculicidal; seeds anatropous. 



Sepals auricled at the base; corolla spurred. - 1. Viol.^. 



Sepals not auricled at the base; lowest petal merely saccate at the base. 2. C alceol,\ria . 



1. VIOLA (Tourn.) L. Violet, Hearts-ease, Paxsy.* 



Usually perennial herbs, either bearing leaves and l-fiowered scapes from the 

 crowTi of the rootstock, or stemmed, with manifest internodes between the leaves, 

 and with axillary 1-flowered peduncles. Flowers usually of two kinds, those of 

 spring with showy petals and those of siunmer with petals rudimentary or lack- 

 ing, the latter never opening, but self-fertihzed within the closed calyx; petalifer- 

 ous flowers nodding, pentamerous and irregular as to calj-x, corolla and stamens. 

 Sepals 5, persistent in fruit, aiu'icled at the base. Petals 5, the lowest one 

 spurred. Stamens distinct, but more or less coherent, the two lower furnished 

 w^th nectar-bearing appendages projecting into the spur. Capsule ovoid to 

 cylindric, 3-valved, bearing 20-60 obovate seeds 1-3 mm. long. 



Plants acaulescent, or without manifest stems. 

 Plants without stolons. 

 Flowers violet-puiple. 

 Rootstock thick. 



Leaves not lobed nor parted. 

 Leaves and scapes glabrous. 



Spurred petal glabrous, rounded at the apex. 



Peduncles of cleistogamous flowers usually 1-3 cm. long, pros- 

 trate under the soil or dead leaves. 1. V, papilionacea. 



* Contributed by Prof. Ezra Brainerd. 



