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shaped, and deeply lobed. The number of lobes is mosily five or 
seven, and their edges have many small unequal indentations. On 
each lobe, one large fibre of a bright yellow colour may be seen, run- 
ning from the leaf-stalk, and sending off many smaller ones. The 
flowers are white and spreading; and have two deciduous calix 
leaves. _ Michaux says there are three, which I believe is an error. 
The calix is so exceedingly fugacious, that it is common for them to 
fall off before the flower is expanded; hence they are rarely seen: 
The petals, which for the most part are pure white, are often tinged 
on their under side, and sometimes on their upper, with a delicate 
rose colour. The flower-bud is generally faint rose-coloured. The 
petals vary exceedingly both in size and number. I have in many 
flowers counted from seven to fourteen; the common number is 
about eight. The stamens are numerous, the anthers simple, and 
orange-coloured. The filaments are simple, shorter than the corolla. 
and of a yellow colour. The pistil is reddish green; the germ 
oblong and compressed. Style none. Stigma thich, two furrow- 
ed, with a stria the height of the stamens, and permanent. The cap- 
sule, or as Willdenow designates it, the siliqua, is oblong, swelling 
in the middle, acute at both ends, and two-valyed. The seeds are 
numerous, round, and pointed. 
‘The variety described by Mr. Pursh, as having linear petals, I 
have never seen. Mr. Nuttall informed me, thas ‘ yas also collected in 
Georgia by Mr. Lyon.» The medicinal —_ 6 are in all proba- 
bility the same, as the variety does not differ except in the flower. 
