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Spring Flora of Oklahoma 
FAMILY 38. KRAMERIACEiE. Krameria Family. 
Low, herbaceous, or woody perennials, with prostrate 
or widely spreading stems and silky, pubescent leaves. 
Leaves alternate, without stipules, entire. Flowers per¬ 
fect, crimson, irregular. Calyx of 4 or 5 unequal, petaloid 
sepals, deciduous. Corolla of 4 or 5 petals shorter than 
the sepals, irregular, the posterior petal clawed, some¬ 
times adnate, the anterior thick, sessile. Stamens 3 or 4, 
the filaments united at the base. Fruit an indehiscent, 
spiny, globose 1-seeded pod. 
I. KREMARIA Loefl. 
Characters of the family. 
1. Krameria lanceolata Torr. Lineak-leaved Krameria. Per¬ 
ennial herb from a thick, woody root, the stems prostrate or as¬ 
cending. Leaves linear, linear-lanceolate or linear-oblong, sessile, 
simple, entire, about 1' long, tipped with a minute prickle. Peduncles 
axillary, solitary, 1-flowered. Fruit globose, pubescent, very spiny. 
Dry rocky soil. April-June. Common. 
FAMILY 39. FABIACE^E. Pea Family. 
Herbs, shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, usually com¬ 
pound, with stipules, the leaflets usually entire. Calyx 
of 5 sepals, more or less united, often somewhat irregu¬ 
lar. Petals 5 or fewer, irregular, the upper petal (stan¬ 
dard) larger than the others and inclosing them in the 
bud, the two lateral ones (wings) oblique, the lower two 
more or less coherent by their interior edges forming the 
keel. Stamens mostly 10, monodelpous, diadelphous, or 
distinct. Fruit a legume, 1-celled or 2-several-celled by 
cross partitions. 
