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SAURURACE2E. 



leaves 1 to 2 in. long, ovate, sagittate at base, acuminate at apex; 

 flowers either in axillary clusters or disposed in a raceme: calyx 

 5-cleft, in fruit minute!}- scurfy and closely investing the black 

 achene which is 2 lines long. 



Introduced: region of Mt. Shasta; about Berkeley acc. to Greene. 



22. SAURURACE>E. 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 generally 3 to 6. 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 persistent showy involucre of 5 to 8 bracts; each flower 

 (except the lowest) also subtended by a small white bract. Stamens 

 6 to 8. Ovary sunk in the rachis of the spike, 1-celled, with 3 to 4 

 stigmas. Capsule dehiscent at the apex. (Greek anemone, and opsis, 

 appearance, since the flowers resemble those of Anemone.) 



1. A. Californica Hook. Yerba Maxsa. Stems hollow, J to 

 2 ft. high, with a broadl} T -ovate or elliptic clasping leaf above the 

 middle and a fascicle of 1 to 3 small petioled leaves in the axil; 

 radical leaves elliptic-oblong, rounded above, often somewhat nar- 

 rowed toward the cordate base, 2 to 8 in. long, on petioles 5 to 8 in. 

 long or less; spikes J to 1| in. long; involucral bracts white (or 

 reddish beneath), oblong, h to 1^ in. long; floral bracts obovate, 

 unguieulate, 2J to 3 lines long; ovules 6 to 10 on each placenta. 



Saline and rather wet places: Collinsville (Sacramento Yallej-) and 

 southward; Walnut Creek; Alameda Marshes; San Jose. May- 

 July. Flowers protandrous. 



23. FRAN KEN I AC EAE. Fbankenia Family. 



Ours low perennial herbs or somewhat suffrutescent plants, with 

 opposite entire leaves and no stipules, perfect flowers, a. 1-celled 

 superior ovary with 2 to 4 parietal placenta 1 , and seeds with a straight 

 embryo. 



L FRANKENIA L. 



Leaves small, crowded and fascicled in the axils. Flowers sessile, 

 solitary, or by the reduction of the upper leaves to bracts becoming 

 somewhat cymose. Calyx tubular, furrowed or almost prismatic, 

 4 or 5-toothed. Petals 4 or 5, appendaged at the very base of the 

 blade, the appendage decurrent on the claw. Stamens in ours about 

 6 (4 to 7), hypogynous, exserted from the tube. Style in ours 3-cleft, 

 included. Capsule included in the persistent calyx, 2 to 4-valved, 

 the seeds attached by filiform funiculi to the margins of the valves. 

 (Named for I. Frankenius, Swedish Professor of Medicine.) 



