LIMNANTHACEJE. (FALSE-MERMAID FAMILY.) 77 
and petals convolute in the hud: stamens twice their number: 
the one-seeded little fleshy fruits entire, hut their styles 
united. — Consists of one 5-merous Californian plant (Lim- 
nanthes), with handsome flowers, sometimes cultivated in 
gardens, and the 
1* FLQilRKEA, Willd. False Mermaid. 
Flower 3-merous (rarely 4-merous): the 3 petals shorter 
than the calyx, lanceolate. Stamens 6, nearly hypogynous. 
Ovaries 3, opposite the sepals, united only at the base ; the style 
rising in the centre : stigmas 3. Fruit of 3 (or 1-2) fleshy ache- 
nia. Seed large, anatropous, erect, filled by the large embryo 
with its hemispherical fleshy cotyledons. — A small and incon¬ 
spicuous annual, with minute solitary flowers on axillary pedun¬ 
cles. (Named after Floerke, a German botanist.) 
1. F. proscrptnacoidcs, Willd. — Marshes and river- 
banks, W. N. Engl, to Ohio. April-June. —The rather succulent 
stems and foliage slightly pungent. Leaflets 3-5, lanceolate. 
Order 29. ZANTHOXYEACEAE. 
Trees or shrubs , pungent and hitter-aromatic , with pellu¬ 
cid-dotted leaves , and dioecious or polygamous regular small 
flowers : ovaries separate or 2-celled. — Sepals 3-5. Pe¬ 
tals as many, or wanting. Stamens equalling or double the 
sepals in number. Pistils 2-5, distinct or united, 1-2- 
seeded (ovules 2, collateral). Seed-coat crustaceous. Em¬ 
bryo in fleshy albumen. — Leaves alternate or opposite. 
Stipules none. 
1* ZAKTHOXYLUM, L. (Prickly Ash.) 
Flowers dioecious. Sepals 5, petal-like when there are no pe¬ 
tals. Stamens 5. Pistils 3-5, raised on a short base or stalk, 
distinct, the styles connivent. Pods thickish, 2-valved when ripe. 
Seeds black and shining. — Stems and often the leaf-stalks prick¬ 
ly. Leaves mostly pinnate. (Name from £av66s, yellow , and £v- 
\ov , wood.) 
1- Z. A meric sum m, Mill. (Northern Prickly Ash ) 
Leaves and flowers in axillary clusters ) leaflets 4—5 pairs and an odd 
