560 BALSAMINACEAB (TOUCH-MB-NOT PAMILY) 



Var. arguta (Buckley) Robinson. Leaflets mostly 6 or 7, lanceolate, attenu. 

 ate, sharply serrate. (_A. arguta Buckley.) — la, (Mills), Mo. (Bush), to Kan. 

 and Tex. 



§ 2. PAVIA [Boerh.] Pers. Fruit smooth ; petals 4, conniving ; the 2 upper 

 smaller and longer than the others, with a small rounded blade on a very 

 long claw. 



3. A. octdndra Marsh. (Sweet B.) Stamens incladed.m ^T^e yeWovf coTolla. ; 

 calyx ohlong-campanulate ; leaflets 5, sometimes 7, glabrous, or often minutely 

 downy underneath. (A. flava Ait.) — Rich woods, Pa. to Wise. , la., and southw. 

 May. — A large tree or a shrub. 



Var. hybrida (T^C.) Sarg. Calyx and corolla tinged with flesh-color or dull 

 purple ; leaflets commonly downy beneath. {A. flava, var. purpurascens Gray. ) 



— W. Va., southw. and westw. 



4. A. Pivia L. (Bed B.) Stamens not longer than the corolla, which is 

 bright red, as well as the tubular calyx; leaflets glabrous or soft-downy beneath 



— Fertile valleys, Va., Ky., Mo., and southw. May. — A shrub or small tree. 



BALSAMINACEAE. (Touch-me-not Family) 



Herbs or undershrubs with bland watery juice, alternate simple exstipulate 

 lejves, irregular flowers, and petaloid imbricated spurred calyx. Stamens 5, 

 loith short flat fllaments and introrse more or less connivent anthers. Ovary 

 6-celled. Seeds vnthout albumen; embryo straight. — Ours glaucous succulent 

 annuals. 



1. IMPAtIENS [Rivinlus] L. Balsam. Jewelweed 



Sepals apparently only 4 ; the anterior one notched at the apex (probably 

 two combined) ; the posterior one (appearing anterior as the flower hangs on its 

 stalk) largest, and forming a usually spurred sac. Petals 2, 2-lobed (each a pair 

 united). Filaments appendaged with a scale on the inner side, the 5 scales con- 

 nivent over the stigma ; anthers introrse. Pod with evanescent partitions, and 

 a thick axis bearing several anatropous seeds ; valves 5, coiling elastically and 

 projecting the seeds in dehiscence. — Leaves in ours ovate or oval, coarsely 

 loothed, petioled. Flowers axillary or panicled, often of two sorts, viz., the 

 larger ones which seldom ripen seeds ; and very small ones which are fertilized 

 early in the bud, their floral envelopes never expanding but forced off by the 

 growing pod and carried upward on its apex. (Name from the sudden bursting 

 of the pods when touched, whence also the popular appellation.) 



1. I. pAllida Nutt. (Pale Totjch-me-not.) Flowers pale-yellow, sparingly 

 dotted with brownish-red ; sac dilated and very obtuse, broader than long, tipped 

 with a short incurved spur. (Z aurea Muhl. ?) — Moist shady places and along 

 rills, in rich soil, n. Me. and w. N. E., westw. and southw. July-Sept. — Larger 

 and greener than the next, with larger flowers. A form with unspotted flowers 

 occurs. 



2. L biflbra Walt. (Spotted Touch-me-not.) Flowers orange-color, thicl-ly 

 spotted with reddish brovm ; sac longer than broad, acutely conical, tapering into 

 a, strongly inflexed spur half as long as the sac. (I. fulva Nutt.) — Rills and 

 shady moist places. June-Sept. — Plant 6-8 dm. high. Forms with spotless, 

 whitish, or roseate flowers have been found. 



I. n6li-tAngere L., of Eurasia and n. w. Am., vyith pale yellow flowers and 

 the sac much longer than broad, is reported from Ottawa, Ont. {Macoun). 



RHAMNACEAE (Buckthorn Family) 



Shrubs or small trees, with simple leaves, small and regular flowers (some- 

 times apetalous), loith the 4 or 5 perigynous stamens as many as the valvate 

 sepals and alternate with them, accordingly opposite the petals ! Drupe or pod 



