42 COMMON CANADIAN WILD PLANTS. 



2. EHO'DIUM, L'Her. Stokksbtll. 



E. eieuta'Pium, 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. FLflERK'EA, Willd False Meemaid. 



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. 



Obdek XXn. OXALIDA'CEiE. (Wood-Sobrbl 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 (looulicidal), and the valves per- 

 sistent. Styles 5, separate. The only genus is 



OX'AMS, L. WOOD-SOEEEL. 



1. 0. Aeetosel'la, L. (White Wood-Soekbl.) Scape 1- 

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



2. 0. eornieula'ta, L. (Yellow W.) Annual, or peren- 

 nial hy running underground shoots. Stipules present. 

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

 yellow. Pod elongated, erect in fruit. — Kare. 



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

 an erect stem, and is without stipules.— 'Common, 



Obdeb XXIII. BALSAMINA'CE^ffi. (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, coherent above. Pod bursting 

 elastioally , and discharging its seeds with considerable force. 

 The only genus is 



