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lowing varieties, and perhaps should not be kept separate 
from y. Flowers, in some instances, drooping; generally 
erect. Calyx-segments sometimes narrow. Petals on as 
in the last. 
vy. S. platypetala and hirta.—Eng. Fl.—Leaves of the pro- 
cumbent shoots mostly 3-cleft, the lobes usually broad, the 
middle one 3-ribbed at the base. The common base of the 
lobes mostly very broad, and tapering downwards into the 
more or less elongated foot-stalk. Flowering-stem three or 
twelve inches high, the flowers, in some instances, few and 
crowded upon short branches near the top; sometimes there 
are seven or nine flowers; the branches axillary, and often 
placed at distant intervals along the stem. Calya-segments 
variable in breadth and length. Petals variable, as in the 
foregoing; in some instances very long and narrow, with a 
notched extremity. 
The procumbent shoots are frequently furnished with 
axillary buds. By cultivation, the leaves in autumn become 
very large and 5-lobed, the lobes spreading, and in some 
degree spathulate. A root exactly answering to S. platypetala 
of Eng. Fl. brought from Wales, was found not materially 
altered by culture while in a flowering state; but in the 
autumn following, the leaves of the shoots were almost uni- 
versally 5-parted, and the lobes broadly spathulate. 
3. S. leptophylla.—Eng. Fi. v. Vu PES ene 
cumbent shoots deeply 3-cleft; lobes Hinton, cand 
widely 
In this, the iom vary much in breadth and 
length. Petals obovate or elliptical, 3-ribbed; seldom fur- 
nished with lateral veins. Intermediate states occur, in which 
the leaves of the stem have narrow, wide-spreading lobes, 
while those of the pacem ibo: are Saeed as in 
the var. a. i 
* Flowering-stem Pais ae die conan leak 
This can scarcely be termed a variety, yet it is not readily 
altered by culture, though perhaps its habit is not strictly 
permanent. Except in having the flowering-stem at the ends 
of the shoots produced in the spring; there is nothing to 
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