Family OXALIDACEA# oi 
2. Erodium. 575. 
1. Erodium cicutarium (L.) L’Her. Alfilaria or Filarie. 
Reported from Lincoln. 
2. OXALIDACEZ. 
1. Oxalis. 575. 
Flowers rose-violet, rarely white. 1. O. violacea. 
Flowers yellow. 
Flowers in small umbels; pedicels reflexed in fruit. 2. O. stricta. 
Flowers in cymes; pedicels remaining erect or spreading. 
3. O. cymosa. 
1. Oxalis violacea L. Purple Sheep-sorrel. 
Ionoxalis violacea (L.) Small. 
Throughout the state, except the extreme western part; common in 
prairies in the eastern part. Bassett; Buffalo county; Crete; Ewing; 
Fairbury; Lincoln; Long Pine; Peru; Valentine. 
2. Oxalis stricta L. Yellow Sheep-sorrel. 
Xanthoxalis stricta (L.) Small. 
Common over most of the state. Callaway; Cherry county; Fair- 
bury; Guide Rock; Lincoln; Thedford. 
3. Oxalis cymosa Small. 
Xanthoxalis cymosa Small. 
Lincoln; Newcastle; Red Cloud; Scotia Junction; Valentine. 
3. BALSAMINACEZ. 
1. Impatiens. 611. 
Sac of spurred sepal longer than broad, spur about % as long as 
the sac. 1. I. biflora. 
Sac of spurred sepal broader than long, spur less than ¥% as long as 
the sac. 2. I. pallida. 
1. Impatiens biflora Walt. Spotted Touch-me-not. 
Mostly in open woods along streams. Bellevue; Dismal river; Pad- 
dock; Peru; Richardson county; Valentine; Weeping Water. 
2. Impatiens pallida Nutt. Pale Touch-me-not. 
In woods in the eastern part of the state. Bellevue; Lincoln; Ne- 
maha; Riverton; Weeping Water. 
4, LINACEZ. 
Flax Family. 
1. Linum 578. 
Flowers blue. 
Flowers less than 2 em. broad; annual. 1. L. usitatissimum. 
Flowers over 2 em. broad; _ perennial. 2. L. lewisii. 
Flowers yellow. 
Flowers small, not 15 mm. broad; annual. 3. L. sulcatum. 
Flowers large, over 15 mm. broad. 
Petals less than one em. long, sepals not wing-crested. 
4, L. rigidum. 
