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gynous; sepals persistent; glands alternating with the petals; 

 stamens distinct; style one; carpels nearly distinct, 1-ovuled, in 

 fruit fleshy and indehiscent, not beaked, separating from a very 

 short axis. 



Flower parts in fours, fives or sixes; stigmas capitate. 307. Limnanthes, 233. 

 Flower parts in threes; stigmas not capitate. 308. Floerkea, 233. 



307. LIMNANTHES. 



Tender annual herbs; leaves alternate, pinnately dissected, 

 without stipules; flowers solitary, regular, symmetrical, on naked 

 axillary straight peduncles; petals longer than the sepals, per- 

 sistent, stamens twice as many as the petals; carpels nearly 

 distinct, each 1-ovuled, becoming a half-fleshy nutlet in fruit; 

 stigmas capitate. 



Limnanthes macounii Trelease. Glabrous; stems much branched, de- 

 cumbent, 5-10 cm. high; leaves pinnately 5-9-parted, the ovate, entire or 

 3-cleft divisions remote; sepals mostly 4, lanceolate, acute; petals cuncate- 

 oblong, 3-4 mm. long, cream-colored; carpels obovoid, tuberculate. 



Victoria, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Macoun; not known from 

 any other locality. 



308. FLOERKEA. 



Tender low annuals, with alternate leaves lacking stipules; 

 flowers regular, symmetrical, the parts in threes, solitary axillary, 

 on curved peduncles; petals small, shorter than the sepals; 

 stamens 6; carpels 3, united at base; style 1 ; stigmas 3, not capi- 

 tate; fruit of 3 akenes with half-fleshy walls. 



Floerkea proserpinacoides Willd. {F. occidentalis Rydb.) Small glabrous 

 herb, branched from the base, the branches 5-20 cm. long; leaves pinnate 

 with 3-5 leaflets, these lanceolate or the upper ones linear, sometimes 2-3- 

 cleft; sepals ovate, acute; petals white, about 2 mm. long; carpels tuberculate. 



In moist places, rare in our limits. 



Family 57. ANACARDIACEAE. Cashew Family. 



Trees or shrubs with resinous or milky acrid juice; leaves 

 alternate, usually compound, without stipules, not punctate; 

 flowers regular, small, polygamo-dioecious or perfect; calyx 5- 

 lobed; petals 5; stamens as many or twice as many as the petals, 

 rarely fewer or more; styles 3; ovary 1-celled, 1-ovuled; fruit 

 generally a small drupe; endosperm scanty or none. 



309. RHUS. 



Trees or shrubs, some of them poisonous to the skin; flowers 

 polygamous or dioecious, seldom truly perfect, small, greenish or 



