MEADOW-FOAM FAMILY. Limnanthaceae. 



MILKWORT FAMILY. Polygalaceae. 



Not a very large family, widely distributed; ours are 

 herbs, sometimes shrubby, with no stipules; flowers perfect, 

 irregular, resembling those of the Pea Family, but not like 

 them in structure; sepals five, the two at the sides large 

 and colored, like "wings," the upper sepal forming a 

 "keel"; petals three, more or less united into a tube; 

 stamens usually eight and united; ovary superior, two- 

 celled, with a broad, curved stigma. 



There are many kinds of Polygala. 



A rather attractive little plant, three to 

 California eight inches tall, with smooth leaves and 



Milkwort many slender, smooth, woody, stems, 



Polygala 



Calijornica springing from slender rootstocks. The 



Pink purplish-pink flowers become deeper in 



Spring, summer color as they fade and are quaint in form, 



Oreg. Qver k a j an nc j 1 i on g f w j t h pmk "wings" 



and yellowish "keel," the petals downy inside and the 

 middle one curving over to form a hood, in which the 

 stamens and style are concealed. This plant has the odd 

 habit of bearing another sort of flower near the root, 

 maturing most of the seed, but without petals, and grows 

 on dry, shady hillsides in the Coast Ranges. 



MEADOW FOAM FAMILY. Limnanthaceae. 



A very small family, all North American, included in , 

 the Geranium Family by some botanists; smooth herbs, of 

 wet places, with bitter juice; leaves alternate, lobed and 

 cut, without stipules; flowers perfect; sepals and petals 

 two to five; stamens twice as many as the petals; ovary 

 superior, the five lobes becoming five nutlets; style one. 



There are several kinds of Floerkea; sepals and petals 

 three to five; five, small glands on the receptacle, alter- 

 nating with the sepals; style two- to five-cleft. 



A charming plant, often covering: the 

 Meadow Foam 



Floerkea Dougldsii meadows with drifts of creamy bloom. 

 (Limnanthes) The stems are smooth, succulent, brittle 

 White, yellow a nd branching, from six to twelve inches 

 Ca[ in <:> tall ; the delicate flowers over an inch across, 



the petals hairy at base, sometimes pinkish r 

 but usually white and yellow. 

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