silky hairs, eglandular ; rootstock a small woody tuber with 
dark-brown bark. Stems one or more from the rootstock, 
suberect, twelve to eighteen inches high, slender, simple, 
flexuous. Leaves all long-petioled, radical petioles four to 
five inches long; uppermost floral only sessile; all orbicular, 
cut nearly to the base into five or seven narrowly obovate 
or cuneate segments, which are again trifid or pinnatifidly 
laciniate and toothed, the teeth acute or obtuse, silky on 
both surfaces, but especially beneath; stipules small, linear- 
oblong. lowers one and a half inch in diameter, in 
terminal 2-flowered peduncles, which, as well as the pedicels 
and calyx, are silky; peduncles and pedicels each about 
an inch long; bracts small, subulate-lanceolate. Sepals 
elliptic, acuminate, with a short awn. Petals three or four 
times as long as the sepals, obcordate, pale purple, with red 
veins; claw small, hairy. Filaments glabrous, except at 
the base. Carpels smooth, minutely pubescent, eglandular. 
Seeds most minutely dotted.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Longitudinal section of flower; 2, claw of petal; 3, stamen ; 4, pistil ; 
5, rootstock and radical leaves :—figs. 3 and 4 enlarged. 
