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SAURURACEAE. 



1. C. multiflora Nutt. Stems 8 to 13 in. high; raceme 2 to 4 in. long; 

 flowers whitish, tinged or veined with purple; sepals and petals 3-nerved, 



3 or 4 lines long; lateral sepals united at base with the foot of the column 

 forming a short (1 line long) spur which is adnate to the ovary; lip mostly 

 purple, broadly ovate and somewhat convex, 3-lobed by a deep cleft on each 

 side; lateral lobes narrow and acutish ; middle lobe large and rounded or 

 notched, with involute or denticulate margin; raceme loose, 3 to 10 in. long; 

 capsule % in- long- 

 Shade of woods in the outer and middle Coast Eanges. 



2. C. bigelovii Wats. Stems 12 to 15 in. high, with 3 or 4 sheathing leaves; 

 sepals and petals somewhat flesh-colored, striately 3-nerved with purple or 

 reddish brown lines, about 6 lines long; lateral sepals oblique; lip quite entire; 

 base of the column (opposite lip) prominently gibbous over the ovary; capsule 

 6 to 9 lines long. 



Woods: along the coast and in the Sierra Nevada. 



DlCOTS. 



Leaves netted-veined. Stems increasing in diameter by an annual layer of 

 wood inside the bark. Flowers with the parts in 4s or 5s, the perianth com- 

 monly differentiated into calyx and corolla, sometimes absent. Embryo with 

 2 cotyledons. 



CHORIPETALAE. 



Calyx usually present, sometimes petal-like. Corolla present or absent, when 

 present consisting of distinct or nearly distinct petals. 



. SAURURACEAE. Lizard-tail Family. 



Ours perennial astringent herbs, with nodose scape-like stems and alternate 

 entire petioled leaves. Flowers perfect, bracteate, in a dense terminal spike. 

 Perianth none. Stamens in ours 5 to 8. Ovary 1 -celled, with 1 to 5 stigmas. 

 Fruit a capsule or berry. 



1. ANEMOPSIS Hook. 



Stoloniferous herb with aromatic rootstock and astringent somewhat spicy 

 herbage. Leaves mostly radical. Spike conical, surrounded at base by a per- 

 sistent showy involucre of 5 to 8 bracts; each flower (except the lowest) 

 also subtended by a small white bract. Ovary sunk in the rachis of the 

 spike; stigmas 2 or 3. Capsule dehiscent at the apex. (Greek anemone, and 

 opsis, appearance, since the flowers resemble those of Anemone.) 



1. A. californica Hook. Verba Mansa. Stems hollow. L, to 2 ft. high, 

 with a broadly-ovate or elliptic clasping leaf above 1 lie middle and a fascicle 

 of 1 t.» .'! small petioled Leaves in the axil; radical leaves elliptic-oblong, rounded 

 above, often BOmewbal narrowed toward the cordate base, - to 8 in. long, on 

 petioles 5 to B in. long or less; spikes I ._. to 1 ' _. in. long; involucral bracts 

 white (or reddish beneath), oblong. ' •_. to l 1 , in. long; floral bracts obovate, 

 clawed. L'"._. to 3 lines long; stamens 5 or 6; ovnles (1 to 10 on each placenta. 



Saline and rather wet lowlands: lower Sacramento Valley; San Joaquin 



Valley; South ('oast Ranges; Southern California. An infusion of the root 



i- i^ed by Spanish-Califoniians both as a liniment for skin troubles and as a 

 tea for disorders of the blood. 



