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eenta rising from the base and bearing several or many 
seeds. 
ANDROSACE, Tourn. 
Small annuals (ours), flowers white, umbellate, 5- 
merous; stamens included, distinct; corolla salverform 
or funnelform, tube shorter than the calyx, the threat 
constricted. 
A. SEPTENTRIONALIS, L. Almost glabrous; leaves 
lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, irregularly denticulate 
to laciniate toothed, scapes erect, 2 to 10 in. high; 
bracts of the small involucre subulate, lobes of calyx 
shorter than the tube; lobes of the corolla shorter than 
the calyx. Acaulescent, with slender root and an open 
rosulate circle of leaves and naked scapes. Sandia 
Mts. at about the 9000 ft. level. 
23. UMBELLIFERAE. parstry Famity. 
Herbs with alternate, mostly compound leaves, whose 
petioles are expanded or sheathing at base; small flow- 
ers, the calyx with its tube grown to the ovary and limb 
obsolete or minute so that there seems to be no calyx. 
A difficult order and fruit is necessary. Stamens 
and 5 petals fastened to a disk which covers the ovary. 
osmMorRHIzA, Raf. Sweet Cicely. 
Perennials with thick aromatic roots; more or less 
hirsute; leaves large, 2 to 3. ternately compound, in- 
volucre small or none; fruit linear oblong, flowers 
white. (Washingtonia. ) 
o. NupDA, Torr. Rather slender,2 to3 ft. high; 
umbell long-peduncled, 3 to 5-rayed, style short. In 
the Aspen Society of the Sandia Mts. 
24. ONAGRARIEAE. r&venINnG PRIMROSE FAMILY. 
Herbs with usually 4-merous, perfect and symmet- 
rical flowers; no stipules; ovary 2 to 4-celled; stamens 
inserted on the summit of the calyx-tube, a single 
slender style and a 2 to 4 lobel or capitatestigma. 
Fruit a many-seeded usually loculicidal pod. 
Seeds suky-tufted; flowers small, rose or pur 
plish; lower le aves often alternate 
- - - - - (1) EPILoBIUM. 
Seeds naked ; ier rose or yellow, leaves alter- 
nate, - (2) OENOTHERA. 
Fruit dry and LER HUEY, a to 4 seeded, leave alter- 
nate - - (3) @uARA. 
1. EPHILOBIUM, L. Willow-herb. 
Mostly perennials with nearly sessile leaves, violet 
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