Limnanthes. GERANIACE^E. 95 



or less commonly as Pin-clover and Pit-grass, and is a valuable and nutritious forage-plant, re- 

 puted to impart an excellent flavor to milk and butter. 



2. E. moschatum, L'Her. Leaves pinnate ; the oblong-ovate leaflets unequally 

 and doubly serrate ; stipules conspicuous : pedicels mostly shorter and stouter : 

 sepals larger, 3 or 4 lines long : odor musky. 



Los Angeles (Antisell) ; Santa Inez Valley (Brewer), and northward, as well as southward in 

 Mexico. Doubtless introduced from Europe. 



3. E. Botrys, Bertoloni. Leaves oblong, pinnatifid ; the lobes dentate, obtuse ; 

 stipules small : sepals 4 lines long : beaks of the carpels 2 or 3 inches long. 



Sacramento Valley, E. L, Greene. Introduced from Southern Europe. 



* * Leaves cordate and lobed. All native species. 



4. E. macrophyllum, Hook. & Arn. Pubescence with more or less of spread- 

 ing glandular hairs especially above : leaves reniform-cordate, 1 to 3 inches broad : 

 stipules small : peduncles elongated : sepals broad, 5 to 6 lines long : carpels 

 oblong, with the stout beak 1^ inches long. Bot. Beechey, 327 ; Torr. & Gray, 

 Fl. i. 679. 



Common in valleys and on the lower hills west of the Sierra Nevada, from San Diego north- 

 ward to the Sacramento Valley. Next to E. cicutarium this is the most abundant species. 



5. E. Texanum, Gray. Pubescence appressed, not glandular : leaves ovate- 

 cordate, smaller and more deeply lobed, usually about an inch long : peduncles 

 shorter : sepals narrower, 3 to 5 lines long : carpels narrow, with the slender beak 

 11 to 3 inches long. PI. Lindh. 157 ; Gen. 111. ii. 130, t. 151. 



Colorado bottom (Newberry) ; sandy plains near Fort Mohave (Cooper), and eastward to Texas. 



3. LIMNANTHES, R. Brown. 



Flowers regular, the parts in fives : sepals valvate in the bud. Glands 5, alter- 

 nating with the petals. Stamens 10. Style 5-cleft at the apex. Ovary with soli- 

 tary ascending ovules. Carpels distinct, subglobose, at first fleshy, at length hard 

 and rugose, indehiscent, separating from the short axis. Annual low diffuse 

 herbs, growing near water ; leaves pinnate, without stipules ; flowers showy, white, 

 yellowish, or rose-colored, solitary on axillary peduncles. The following are the 

 only species ; possibly not distinct. 



1. L. Douglasii, R. Brown. Glabrous throughout, diffusely branched from the 

 base, the weak and succulent stems 6 to 18 inches long : leaves pinnate, the leaflets 

 incisely lobed or parted, with linear acute lobes : peduncles at length 2 to 4 inches 

 long : sepals lanceolate, 3 or 4 lines long, half the length of the oblong or obovate, 

 emarginate or truncate petals : style very slender, 3 or 4 lines long. Lindl. Bot. 

 Reg. xx, t. 1673 ; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3554. L. rosea, Hartw. ; Benth. PL Hartw. 

 302. Floerkea Donglasii, Baill. Hist. PI. v. 20, fig. 50 - 54. 



Mendocino County to Los Angeles and the foot-hills of the Sierra Nevada. The stems and 

 foliage are yellowish-green and succulent, the plant sometimes forming dense patches, much fre- 

 quented by bees. Flowers pale-yellow to nearly white, or tinged with rose-color. Carpels about 

 2 lines in diameter. 



2. L. alba, Hartweg. Sepals villous : petals usually white, half longer than the 

 calyx : otherwise like the last. Benth. PI. Hartw. 301. 



Sacramento Valley and foot-hills of the Sierra Nevada ; usually somewhat smaller than the 

 last, but perhaps only a form of it. 



Fr.(EUKKA VKOSKRPINACOIDE.S, Willd., has been found in Washington Territory and N. Utah, 

 and may be looked for in Northern California, It is a slender annual of moist localities, with 

 pinnate leaves and small flowers, the genus distinguished by having the parts of the flo\ver ill 

 threes. This ii the only species, and is common in the Northern Atlantic States. 



