“ia Sree 
6 mean PS 
ascending, young growt rown, sparingly ssebrerve«pubescent, becoming 
2. Pe capitatus { Pexshx) Kuntze. ——-+Shrub 1-3 m. or more tall, stems 
b 
glabrous, tem_banie-neos mired: SS Ad 8 ata Bs ws » Old bark 
papery and very flaky; leaves broadly ovate, 3-4 cm. long, 3-5-lobed, the 
lowermost lobes obscure or wanting, the middle largest¥ lightly rounded@ 
cordate at the base, the margin serrate, the lobes mostly acute » One or both 
surfaces stwirkeve~pubescent, or glabrous the lower pale, petioles about 1 om. 
long, glabrous$ ; . ioe 
bracts 5-4 mm. long, oblanceolate, caducous, pedicels slender, 1-2.5 om. 
long, densely stedbewse=pubescent$ calyx-lobes ovate, acute, 3-4 mn. long, ce 
densely sbeddetespubescent on both surfaces; petals white, orbicular or obovate. 
scarcely 4 mm. long; the stamens somewhat shorter than the petals, filaments 
slender; anthers purple; fruiting carpels 2-5, obovate, giabrate and shining, 
sometimes thinly oe wl | laterally flattened, but somewhat turgid, 7-9 mm. 
long, the styles 5-4 mf. long; seeds 2 in each carpel, straw-color, 2.5 mm. 
long. 7 —>(Opulaster capitatus Kuntze.). 
Occasional in/the broader valleys and at the edge of the grassland, 
growing along smaZ1 streams and roadways, where it apparently forms hybrids 
with P. pauciflorus (Epling and Putnam 10133, ss A Os: cordatus 
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Ghich represent (2)) 
