88 LIMNANTHACEAE (FALSE MERMAID FAMILY) 



margins; flowers white, in a single close spike. Rocky 

 soil. May to July. 



ETJPHORBIACEAE (Spurge Family) 



Herbs with milky juice, mostly apetalous flowers and 

 ^-celled ovary. The fruit a ^-lobed capsule. 



EUPHORBIA 



Herbs with peduncles terminal, often in umbellate 



clusters. Flowers monoecious, included in a cup- 



PoiygaiaSen- shaped, 4 or 5 lobed involucre resembling a calyx or 



ega, Seneca corolla. Staminate flowers numerous, lining the base 



snakeroot. ^^ ^jjg involucrc. Pistillate flowers solitary, in the 



middle of the involucre, soon protruded on a long pedicel. 



E. Cyparissias, Cypeess Spurge. Stems densely clustered, from 

 running rootstocks, reaching 3 dm. in height, crowded with linear, 

 entire leaves; floral leaves heart-shaped; umbels 

 many-rayed; glands crescent-shaped. Escaped from 

 gardens. 



LIMNANTHACEAE (False Mermaid Family) 



Low herbs with alternate, pinnate leaves, per- 

 fect, regular flowers with 5 to 6 parts. Glands '^'^^''^^^^^^ 

 alternate with the petals. Carpels nearly dis- \ 



tinct, but with a common style, becoming fleshy "^^ ""^ 'c y p^r e s s 

 and separating from the short axis. spurge. 



FLOERKEA 



Small shrubs with minute, solitary flowers on axillary peduncles. 

 Sepals 3. Petals 3, shorter than the calyx. Stamens 6. Ovaries 

 3, united only at base. Fruit composed of 3 roughish achenes. 



F. proserpinacoides, False Mermaid. Leaflets 3 to s, lanceolate, 

 sometimes 2 to 3 cleft. Marshes and river banks. . April to June. 



