KRAMERIA FAMILY. Krameriaceae. 
KRAMERIA FAMILY. Krameriaceae. 
A small family, distributed from the southern United 
States to Chili; hairy herbs or low shrubs, without stipules; 
leaves alternate; two bracts on the flower-stalk; flowers 
purplish, irregular, perfect; sepals four or five, usually 
large, the outer one commonly wider than the others; 
petals usually five, smaller than the sepals, the three upper 
ones with long claws, often united by their claws, some- 
times the middle one of the three lacking, the two lower 
ones reduced to mere fleshy glands and not resembling 
petals; stamens three or four, united at least at base; 
ovary superior, with a slender style; fruit spiny, seed one. 
. A desert shrub, with a pleasant smell 
Crimson-beak ; ; : 
Krasierin Gas like balsam, two to four feet high, with 
Purplish-pink gray, woody stems, abruptly branching, 
Spring armed with long, brown and gray thorns, 
a and clothed with very small, silvery-gray 
leaves, downy and thickish. The flowers are curious in 
shape and color, with five, large, purplish-pink sepals and 
five, small petals, the two lower ones minute and reduced 
to glands. The pistil is dark red, the three stamens have 
green filaments and red anthers, the ovary is downy and 
prickly, and the downy buds are pale pink. 
CALTROP FAMILY. Zygophyllaceae. 
Not a large family, widely distributed in warm and 
tropical regions; ours are herbs or shrubs, with opposite or 
alternate, compound leaves, with stipules and toothless 
leaflets; flowers complete, usually with five sepals and five 
petals, and usually twice the number of stamens, with 
swinging anthers, alternate stamens sometimes longer, 
filaments often with a small scale near the middle; ovary 
superior, usually surrounded at the base by a disk; style 
one, with a five- to ten-lobed stigma; fruit dry. 
There are several kinds of Covillea. 
A graceful, evergreen shrub, common in 
gas arid regions and a characteristic feature 
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Covillea elutindsa Of the desert landscape, filling the air 
(Larrea Mexicana)With its very strong, peculiar odor. It is 
Creosote-bush, 
Yellow from three to ten feet high, with many 
areas little branches, with blackish knots at the 
joints, clothed with sticky, dull yellowish- 
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