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HorRKELIA CONGESTA. 'TUFTED-FLOWERED 
HorKELIA. 
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Class and Order. 
Decanpria Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Rosacez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Cal. campanulatus, semidecemfidus, laciniis alternis ac- 
cessoriis. Pet. 5, (parva, Schlecht.) Stam. 10, biseriata, 
calycis parietibus inserta. Receptaculum conicum, siccum, 
villosum. Ovaria, indefinite numerose. Styli simplices 
cum ovario articulati, subterminales. Achenia calyce in- 
clusa. Schlecht. in Linnea. a: ie 
Specific Character and Synonym. 
Horkewia* congesta; foliis radicalibus pinnatis laciniis 
cuneato-oblongis apice incisis, calycis laciniis exte- 
rioribus integerrimis, petalis calyce longioribus. 
Horkexia congesta. Douglas MSS. . 
Descr. Plant more or less hairy and pubescent in every 
part. Froma perennial root rises a rounded stem, branched 
upwards, and bearing but few leaves. Root-leaves several, 
prostrate, pinnate with from three to seven, sometimes op- 
posite, sometimes alternate pairs of cuneato-oblong leaflets, 
and an odd terminal one, more or less decurrent at the base ; 
the apex cut into from three to five longer teeth or laciniz : 
slem-leaves alternate, pinnatifid, with the segments linear, 
acute, entire. Stipules adnate to the base of the leafstalk, 
deeply laciniated, broader upon the stem, and at the forking 
of the upper branches, where the leaf seems to be elccoe 
Saeee an 
* In compliment to Jonn Horxen, Professor of Physiology, in Berlin. 
