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ORDER 51. SAURURACE-ffi. 



Herbs with jointed stems, alternate entire leaves and perfect flowers in spikes, entirely 

 destitute of floral envelopes. 



1. ANEMOPSIS, Hook. 



Flowers in a simple conical spadix, which is surrounded by a 5-8-leaved persistent col- 

 ored involucre, each flower subtended by a free colored bract. Stamens 6 to 8, free, 

 growing upon the immersed ovary. 



1. A. Californica, Hook. Stem simple, erect, 3 to 15 inches high, with a single 

 broad clasping leaf in the middle, and an axillary branchlet reduced to 1 or more petioled 

 leaves; radical leaves oblong-oval, cordate at base, 2 to 6 inches long; involucre 1 to 1 

 inches broad, wliite, becoming brown. 



