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these last are oblique, ovate, irregularly jagged, acute. 

 Folioles smooth, lanceolate, acute at both ends, with 

 a large nerve, border unequally serrate or jagged, and 

 in the lower leaves often pinnatif. — Flowers in loose 

 thin terminal corymbs, peduncles clingated, calix 

 campanulate with five teeth; petals white, three times 

 as long, linear lanceolate, a little unequal, base cunei- 

 form, and nearly obtuse. Stamina short, inclosed, 

 anthers round yellow. Pistil central free, five parted, 

 five filiform Styles, five obtuse stigmas, five connected 



Capsuls, &c. &c. . 



LocALiTY-^Found only West of the Allegheny 



mountains, from Ohio and West Virginia to Missouri 

 and Louisiana ; rare in. the limestone and alluvial re- 

 gTons, very common in the hilly and sand-stone re- 

 gions, growing always in poor or grltvelly soils, both 



in woods antlr^laiJeS' 



HISTORY — This genus contains two species, this 

 and G. tnfoliata^ which has similar properties, and 

 will be known by rts locality, growing on the moun- 

 tains Alleghany, or north, east and south of them from 

 Canada to Florida, but never west of them. It is a 

 larger plant, with broader folioles, small linear sti- 

 pules and fewer flowers, but larger. It has been figur* 

 ed by Barton and Bigelow, but resembles this so 



much as not to need it. 



Both blossom in June and July, and are pretty 

 plants, worth cultivation. They had formerly been 

 united to Spirca^ FilipenduUi^ and Uhnaria, Moench 

 proposed long ago the genus Giileniay but it was only 

 lately adopted. It belongs to the Natural Order of 



