late on a white ground,) the corolla is smaller, more 
rotate, and densely hairy at the bottom within. The leaves 
too are less deeply pinnatifid, and the lobes more entire. 
Descr. A straggling, much branched, annual plant, 
with succulent, brittle stems. Leaves petiolate, pinnatifid, 
the lobes ovate, nearly entire, slightly hairy, smaller up- 
wards. Peduncles solitary, single-flowered, hairy. Calyx 
hairy, the sinuses prolonged into deflexed spurs. Corolla 
rotate, white, very hairy at the base within, the lobes 
marked with dark brown, oblong spots, indistinct on the 
underside. Anthers sagittate, dark purple-brown, on fila- 
ments which are much shorter than the corolla. Germen 
ovate, hairy, with a five lobed, hypogynous, fleshy ring at 
the base. Style deeply bifid. Stigmas obtuse. 
Fig. 1. Calyx, including the Pistil. 2. Portion of the Corolla. 3. Pistil: 
magnified. 
