5^0 ©BUM. No. « 



IVo. 43. 



GEUM VIRGINIAN UM 



English Name— WHITE AVENS. 



French Name — ^BE^-oITE de ViRaiNiE. 



German Name — Bennet- 



Officinai. Name — Geum radix. 



Vulgar Names — Evan root, Avens, Chocolate 

 root, Bennet, Cure-all, Throatroot. 



Authorities — Lin, Mich. Pursh, Kalm, Schoepf, 

 Cutler, A. Ives, Buckhaven, Melandri, Zollickoffer, 

 Bigelow seq. Coxe, &c. 



Genus Geum- — Calix ten cleft, spreading, the alter- 



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natesegments^snaaUeFw Petals five on the calix. Many 

 stamina inserted on the base of the calix. Many cen^ 

 tral pistils, each with a long persistent style and ob- 

 tuse stigma, and becoming a seed. Seeds forming a 

 cluster, awned by the styles. 



Species G. Virginianum — Pubescent, stem erect, 

 radical and lower leaves ternate, petiolate, upper ses- 

 »ile and simple, folioles ovate, lanceolate, acute, un- 

 equally serrate, stipules ovate, serrate or entire; 

 flowers few, erect, petals oboval, shorter than the calixj 

 awns uncinate, hairy, twisted. 



DESCRIPTION—Roots perennial, small, brittle, 



Wown, crooked, tuberculated, oblong, horizontal. 

 Stem simple, erect, about two feet high, pubescent, 

 few flowered. Radical leaves on long petioles, with- 



