Limnanthes. GERANIACE^. gg 



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

 puted to impart an excellent flavor to milk and butter. 



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

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

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



Los Angeles {Antiscll) ; Santa Inez Valley (Brewer), and nortliwanl, 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. G-rcenc. Introduced from Southern Europe. 



% % Leaves cordate and lohed. All native species. 



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

 ing glanilular liairs 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 H 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. III. ii. 130, t. 151. 



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



3. LIMNANTHES, R. Brown. 

 Flowers regidar, 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 liard 

 and rugose, indehiscent, separating from the short axis. — Annual low diff'use 

 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, E. Brown. Glabrous throughout, diftusely 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. 

 Eeg. XX, t. 1673; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3554. .L. rosea, Hartw. ; Benth. I'l. Hartw. 

 302. Floerkea Douglasii, 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, lialf longer thau 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. 



Flcerkea proserpinacoides, Willd., has been found in "Washington Territory and X. VU\\\, 

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

 pinnate leaves and small flowers, the genus distinguished ]iy having the jiaits of the flower in 

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



