radually ——. smaller towards the base: Petiole 
ilated, grooved. Scape from eight or ten inches to a foot 
high, terete, purplish, clothed with soft hairs, bearing two 
deeply-pinnatifid and laciniated leaves or large bractee 
above the middle, which are connate at the base, and ter- 
minate in a three-flowered umbel. There are again two 
large, laciniated bractee, similar to those just mentioned, at 
the base of the pedicels ; and the two lateral ones have simi- 
Jar bractee near their middle, while the central flower is 
destitute ofthem. These pedicels are from three to four inches 
long, each terminated with a solitary, ~—s flower. 
Cal. dark purple, with five, erect, large inner laciniz, and 
five external, smaller, patent ones. Petals oblong, not 
longer than the calyx, white, purplish-red at the extremity 
and at the margins, never spreading. In the centre of the 
flower is a short, five-lobed, fleshy cup, around which, and 
beneath it, are the hairy stamens: and in the centre of 
which is an elongated, conical receptacle, with many elon- 
gated tubercles, upon which the Pistils are jointed. Ger- 
men hairy, tapering gradually into the arista-like style : 
_ Stigma obtuse. 
A very little known inhabitant of North America, having 
been first detected by Mr. Brapsury (some of whose 
specimens are in my Herbarium) in Upper Louisiana, 
and described by Pursn in the Supplement to his Flora. 
Mr. Goxpte found it on the banks of Ohio ; Dr. Ricuarp- 
son during his and Captain Franxuin’s first expedition ; 
Dr. Morison gathered it in Labrador ; and Mr. Cormack in 
Newfoundland ; and at length Mr. Bram brought living 
ons from North America, phe White Mountains) which 
owered in the collection of Mr. Cunnineuam near Edin- 
burgh. But the finest specimens I have ever seen are 
amongst Mr. Drummonn’s plants, gathered on the alpine 
prairies of the Saskatchawan. 
It is quite hardy and has the same graceful appearances, 
and subdued, but agreeable colour, as our Geum rivale, and 
which caused that plant to be so great a favourite with the 
late Sir James Smitu. Indeed, the habit of the two is so 
very similar, that it seems almost unnatural to separate 
them into different genera, on account of the slight differ- 
ence in the style. 
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Fig. 1. Petal. 2. Cup-shaped body in the centre of the Flower, from 
around which, all but one Stamen is removed. 3. Receptacle of the Pistils, 
with a single Pistil remaining upon it.—Magnified. 
