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b. E. moscha'tum L'Her. GREEN-STEMMED FILAREE. This has 

 a faint odor of musk. The root leaves form a cluster, but are larger 

 and coarser than the preceding, and erect, often a foot long. The 

 leaflets are doubly serrate. This always has a greener and more 

 luxuriant appearance than the preceding. Widely distributed. 



c. E. Bo'trys Bert. Stems short, depressed. Leaves in a rosette, 

 reddish and shining, oblong in outline with coarsely-toothed seg- 

 ments. Petals lilac-purple, longer than the calyx, forming a bell- 

 shaped corolla. Carpels with beaks 2-4 in. long. This gives a 

 reddish color to the hills along the seaboard in early spring. The 

 long beaks of the akenes are conspicuous later. It is introduced, 

 and likely to be found everywhere along the coast. 



d. E. macrophyrium H. & A. Stems very short, glandular-hairy 

 above. Leaves kidney-shaped, crenate-serrate. Petals white, as long 

 as the sepals. This is found chiefly in clayey soil, and is widely 

 distributed. 



m. LIMNANTHES, Meadow Foam 



Smooth, succulent annuals with pungent juice. Leaves 

 alternate, without stipules, pinnately cleft. Flowers showy, 

 solitary, on axillary peduncles, white, yellowish, or rose- 

 color. Petals convolute in the bud. Stamens 10. Carpels 

 at first fleshy, becoming hard and wrinkled, separating from 



the short axis. This grows always in wet places. 







a. L. Douglas'ii R. Brown. Stems very smooth, brittle, much 

 branched. Peduncles 2-4 in. long. Sepals lanceolate, petals twice 

 as long, yellow, white, or of both colors, obovate, emarginate. This 

 beautiful plant sometimes covers large areas in wet meadows. 

 Throughout California. 



b. L. ro'sea Hartw. Leaves with narrow linear lobes; flowers 

 white, turning rose-color. This is found in the great valleys of 

 California. 



c. L. al'ba Hartw. Short and stout, with the leaf segments 

 broad, short, 3-lobed. Petals white, not much longer than the 

 densely woolly sepals. Northern California. 



IV, OX'ALIS, Wood Sorrel 



Low herbs with acid juice, often without a stem. Leaves 

 compound with 3 obcordate leaflets, like clover. Stamens 10, 

 with filaments dilated and united at the base. Capsule 

 beaked with the short style, 5-celled with the valves remain- 

 ing attached to the axis by the partitions. 



