20 PAPAVERACEE. (POPPY FAMILY.) 
2. VANCOUVERIA, Morren & Decaisne. 
Sepals and petals 6 each, reflexed, with 6 to 9 bractlets. Stamens 6. Carpel 1; the 
stigma cup-shaped. A slender perennial herb, with radical 2-3-ternately compound 
leaves, and the open paniculate raceme upon a naked scape. ; 
V. hexandra, Morr. & Dec. The long petioled leaves rising like the fronds of « 
fern, leaflets 1 to 2 inches broad, petiolulate, obtusely 3-lobed, the margin thickened; 
the minute flowers on a scape exceeding the leaves. 
Orvez 8. NYMPHAACEAZ:. 
Aquatic perennial herbs, with peltate or deeply cordate leaves; solitary axillary perfect 
flowers on long peduncles. Stamens numerous. 
Water-Shield. (Brasenia peltata, Pursh.) May be found in ponds. Its elliptical, pel- 
tate, floating leaves (green above and brownish-red beneath) and its jelly-coated stems 
characterize it quite well enough. 
The Yellow Pond-Lily (Nuphar polysepalum, Engl.) is more common. 
The Order Sarraceniacez is represented by the remarkable Darlingtonia Californica, 
or California Pitcher Plant, which grows in cold swamps in the northern part of the 
State, from Mount Shasta to near the coast. 
Frankenia grandifolia grows in saline soils, and may be known by its opposite sessile, 
obovate, or linear oblanceolate, small leaves, with revolute margins; and by its small, 
pink flowers. It may be distinguished from a Silene, which at first it seems to be, by its 
fewer (4 to 7) stamens and sessile flowers. 
The Order Frankeniacez should come next to Caryophyllacee. Fremontia Califor- 
nica, belonging to the Order Sterculiacez, which is allied to the Malvaceae, is most 
conveniently described here also. It is a small tree, bearing conspicuous yellow flowers 
in the axils of usually broadly cordate, lobed leaves. The apetalous flowers are some- 
times 2 or 3 inches across. 
The Order Capparidacez is represented in Santa Barbara County, and southward, by 
Isomeris arborea, » low shrub, bearing bracteate racemes of yellow flowers, the pistils 
conspicuous on account of their long stipes. The flowers of this plant are apparently 
like those of the Cruciferw, and its proper place is next tc that order. Capers are ob- 
tained from a cultivated plant of this order. 
The Order Styracacee is represented by Styrax Californica, a pretty shrub, bearing 
clusters of nearly rotate white flowers, in which the gamopetalous corolla is cut down to 
the short tube which is adnate to the tube formed by the stamens: Calyx truncate. 
