42 COMMON CANADIAN WILD PLANTS. 



•i. ERO'DIVIM, L'Her. Storksbill. 



E. CiCUta'rium, 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. FLtEKK'EA, Willd. False Mermaid. 



F. proserpinacoi'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. 



Order XXII. OXALIDA'CE^. (Wood-Sorrel ¥.) 



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, biit the fruit is a 5-oelled pod, each cell opening 

 in the middle of the back (looulicidal), and the valves per- 

 sistent. Styles 5, separate. The only genus is 



OX'AUS, L. WOOD-SOEREL. 



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

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



2. 0. COrniCUla'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. — Bare. 



Var.etricta, Sav. (0. strict(f, L.), is less pubescent, has 

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



Order XXIII. BALSAMINA'CE.^;, (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 

 elastically , and discharging its seeds with considerable foroe. 

 The only genus is 



