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1. E. cieutarium, L'Her. Hairy, much branched from the base : leaf- 

 lets laciuiately piunatifid with narrow acute lobes : peduncles exceeding the 

 leaves : petals bright rose-color : pedicels at length reflexed, the fruit still 

 erect. E. Utah and throughout the whole region west of the Kocky Moun- 

 tains. Known as " Alfilaria," " Pin-clover," and " Pin-grass." 



3. OXALIS, L. WOOD-SORREL. 



Low, often acaulescent, with obcordate leaflets and peduncles umbellately 

 or cymosely few to many-floAvered. 



1. O. violacea, L. Acaufescent, nearly smooth, leaves and scapes from a 

 scaly bulb : scapes longer than the leaves, umbellately flowered : petals violet : 

 capsule few-seeded. Colorado, and common eastward. 



2. O. COrniculata, L. Caulescent, more or less villous, from running root- 

 stocks : stems sometimes 2 or 3 feet high : petals yellow : capsule many-seeded. 



Var. stricta, Sav. Without stipules. 0. stricta, L. Colorado and east- 

 ward across the continent. 



ORDER 19. RUTACEJE. (RUE FAMILY.) 



Shrubs or small trees, with pellucid or glandular-dotted aromatic 

 leaves, definite hypogynous stamens, and few seeds. Sepals and petals 

 4 or 5, imbricated in the bud. Stamens as many or twice as many as the 

 petals, inserted outside of a hypogynous disk. Stipules none. 



1. Ptelea. Leaves 3-foliolate. Fruit orbicular, indeluscent, broadly winged. Stamens 4 



or 5. 



2. Thamnosma. Leaves simple, alternate. Fruit a 2-lobed coriaceous capsule. Sta- 



mens 8. 



1. PTELEA, L. SHRUBBY TREFOIL. HOP-TREE. 



Flowers polygamous. Ovary with a short thick stipe, 2-celled ; cells 2-ovuled, 

 the lower ovule abortive : style short. Shrubs or small trees ; flowers small, 

 greenish-white, in terminal cymes or compound corymbs. 



1. P. angUStifolia, Benth. A shrub 5 to 25 feet high, with chestnut- 

 colored punctate bark : leaflets oblong-lanceolate, entire, becoming smooth 

 and shining with age : fruit emarginate at base and often above ; the stipe 

 narrow. S. Colorado to California and Texas. 



2. THAMNOSMA, Torr. 



Disk cup-shaped, crenate or lobed. Ovary stipitate, 2-celled ; cells 5 or 

 6-ovuled: style elongated. Low glandular desert shrubs, strongly scented ; 

 leaves linear ; flowers solitary. 



1. T. Texana, Torr. Woody only at base, the slender stems 3 to 15 

 inches high : flowers on short naked pedicels : petals yellow tinged with 

 purple. Rutosma Texanum, Gray. S. W. Colorado and southward. 



