42 COMMON CANADIAN WILD PLANTS. 



2. EKO'DIDI, L'Her. STOBKSBILL. 



E. CiCUta'rium, L'Her. Stem low and spreading, hairy. 

 Leaves pinnate, the leaflets sessile, pinnatifid. Peduncles 

 several-flowered. Styles when they separate from the beak 

 bearded on the inside. Not common. 



3. FL<ERK'EA, Willd. FALSE MERMAID. 



F. proserpinaeoi'des, Willd. A low tender annual with 

 very small solitary flowers on axillary peduncles. Leaves 

 alternate, pinnate, of 3-5 lanceolate leaflets. Marshes and 

 river-banks. 



ORDER XXII. OXALIDA'CE.E. ("WOOD-SORREL F.) 



Low herbs with an acid juice and alternate compound 

 leaves, the 3 leaflets obcordate and drooping in the evening. 

 Flowers very much the same in structure as in the preced- 

 ing Order, but the fruit is a 5-celled pod, each cell opening 

 in the middle of the back (loculicidal), and the valves per- 

 sistent. Styles 5, separate. The only genus is 



O\ VMS, L. WOOD-SORREL. 



1. 0. Aeetosel'la, L. (WHITE WOOD-SORREL.) Scape 1- 

 flowered. Petals white, with reddish veins. Cold woods. 



2. 0. COrnieula'ta, L. (YELLOW W.) Annual, or peren- 

 nial by running underground shoots. Stipules present. 

 Peduncles 2-6-flowered, longer than the leaves. Petals 

 yellow. Pod elongated, erect in fruit. Bare. 



Var. Stricta, Sav. (0. stricta, L.), is less pubescent, has 

 an erect stem, and is without stipules. Common 



ORDER XXIII. BALSAMINA'CE^I. (BALSAM FAMILY.) 



Smooth herbs, with succulent stems and simple exstipu- 

 late leaves. Flowers irregular, the sepals and petals 

 coloured alike, one of the coloured sepals spurred, the spur 

 with a tail. Stamens 5, c herent above. Pod bursting 

 elastically , and discharging its seeds with considerable force. 

 The only genus is 



