Limnanthes. GERANIACE^E. 95 



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

 puted to impart an excellent flavor to milk and butter. • 



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

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

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



Los Angeles (Anliscll) ; Santa Inez Valley (Bracer), and northward, 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. Greene. Introduced from Southern Europe. 



* * Leaves cordate and lobed. All native species. 



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

 ing glandular hairs 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 1£ 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, < Iray. 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 

 1£ to 3 inches long. —PI. Lindh. 157; Gen. 111. ii. 130, t. 151. 



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



3. LIMNANTHES, Ii. Brown. 



Flowers regular, 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 hard 

 and rugose, indehiseent, separating from the short axis. — Annual low diffuse 

 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, It. ttrown. Glabrous throughout, diffusely bram-hed 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: stylo very slender, •"> or I lines long. — Lindl. Bot 

 Reg. xx, t. 1673; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3554. L. rosea, Hartw.j LVnth. PL llaitw. 

 302. Flnrtn, /),„i : //<isii, Iiaill. Hist PL v. 20, fig. 50-54. 



Mendocino County to Los Angeles and the foot-hills of the Sierra Nevada, The sterna and 

 foliage hit yellowish-green and Bucculent, the plant sometimes forming dense patches, much fre- 

 quented by I B. 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, half longer than the 

 calyx: otherwise like the last — Benth. PL Hartw. 301. 



Sacramento Valley and foot-hills of the Sierra Nevada; usually Bomewhal smaller than the 

 last, but perhaps only a form i>f it. 



I i a i:ki \ ixosixi-in \ us, Willd., Iims been found iii Washington Territoiy and N. Utah, 



and may be looked for in Northern California. It is a slender annual ol lilies, with 



pinnate leaves and small flowers, the genus distinguished by having the part-. >■! the flower in 

 threes. This is tin ly species, and is common in the Northern Atlantic S 



