MEADOW-FOAM FAMILY. Umnanthaceae. 



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 tc 

 California eight inches tall, with smooth leaves and 



many slender, smooth, woody, stems 

 Calijdrnica springing from slender rootstocks. Th< 



Pink purplish-pink flowers become deeper ii 



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

 Cal., Oreg. oyer k a if an i nc h long, with pink "wings 



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

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

 stamens and style are concealed. This plant has the od 

 habit of bearing another sort of flower near the r 

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

 on dry, shady hillsides in the Coast Ranges. 



MEADOW FOAM FAMILY. Limnanthaceae. 



