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out stipules, lower leaves with large stipules and 

 shorter petioles, upper leaves sessile, simple, similar 

 to the folioles of the lower leaves, which are oval, or 

 oval-Ian ceolate, or lanceolate, base acute, and acumi- 

 nate, border deeply and unequally serrate : stipules 

 large, broad, sessile, ovate or rounded, serrate or near- 

 ly entire* 



Flowers terminal, white, few, on, erect peduncles. 

 Calix spreading, ten cleft, segments lanceolate, acute, 

 five alternate smaller. Five yellowish white petals^ 

 opposite to the short segments, shorter than the longest, 

 and inserted on the base of the calix, oboval, entire, 

 flat. Stamina many, short, unequal, perigynous ; fila- 

 ments filiform, anthers roundish and yellow. Pistils 

 many, conglomerate, oval, styles long, hairy, stigma 

 hooked. Fruit a small burr or round cluster of achenes 

 or single seeds, oval, brown, smooth, having a long 

 tail or awn, formed by the persistent styles, filiform, 



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hairy, twisted and uncinate at the top. ' 



LocAi^iTT — Common from Maine to Carolina and 

 Kentucky, in -woods, groves, thickets, hills, &c. 



HISTORY — An estival plant blossoming in June 

 and July, the flowers resemble those of Strawberries, 

 but are smaller; a variety has them yellowish. The 

 varieties are 1. UnrJlorUy 2, Macrophyllay 3. Lan- 

 ceolata^ 4. Ochroleuca, 5. Hamosa, &c. 



The Geum rivale or water Av,ens, a boreal plant, 

 spread from New England to Canada in damp places, 

 is more commonly employed in the north, and this 

 species in the south; they are both equivalents, 



Geum belongs to the natural order of Senticoses 



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