166 White to Green and Brown Flowers 



seed-pods are tinged with red, while the smooth seeds are 

 tufted with long hairs at the ends. 



PACIFIC ENCHANTER'S NIGHTSHADE 



Circaa pacifica. Evening Primrose Family 



Stems: glabrous, simple. Leaves: ovate, rounded or cordate at the 

 base, acute, repandly-denticulate. Flowers: calyx with a very short 

 tube. Fruit: capsule obovate, two-valved, with a simple erect seed in 

 each cell. 



This Pacific Coast species of Circsea is a perennial herb, 

 and grows from six, to twelve inches high from a small 

 tuber. It has thin, broad leaves, and the small white flow- 

 ers grow in racemes without bracts. The seeds are hispid 

 with hooked hairs. 



Circcca alpina, or Small Enchanter's Nightshade, has 

 weak, branching stems, and small white or reddish flowers 

 growing in a slender raceme subtended by minute bracts. 

 The leaves are heart-shaped, shining and coarsely toothed, 

 and the bur-like fruit is covered with weak hooked hairs. 

 The names of these plants are somewhat misleading; they 

 neither resemble the Nightshades, nor do they suggest en- 

 chantment. Many hundred years ago Dioscorides de- 

 scribed a plant named after Circe, the enchantress so skilled 

 in the use of poisonous herbs, and that name was accidentally 

 transferred to these rather insignificant little flowers which 

 grow in the dense forests. 



SPIKED WATER MILFOIL 

 Myriophyllum spicatum. Water Milfoil Family 



Submerged leaves: in whorls of fours and fives, dissected into capil- 

 lary divisions. Floral leaves: ovate, entire or serrate, usually shorter 

 than the flowers, or sometimes none. Flowers: white, in spikes; petals 

 four; stamens eight. Fruit: splitting at maturity into four bony, one- 



