cALi^ARDA. ICOSANDRIA. POLYGYNfA. 491 



327. DALIBARDA. Michaux. 

 Calyx inferior, 8-cleft, spreading. Petals 8. Styles 

 5 — 8, long and deciduous. Seeds dry. Mi c h. FL 

 I. p. 299. Xutt. Gen.\.^.^^9. B.xi'Bi spp. L., 

 &c. Lam. III. t. 441. f. 3. Nat Ord. Rosace.e 

 J II s s. 



l.D. reptm Lam.: villous; stolons creeping; leaves 

 oimple, cordate, crenate ; pedancles 1 -flowered. Lam, 

 Enc. VI. p. 250. P ers. S>/n. If. p. 53. Pursk FL I. 

 p. 350. D. vioUzoidc^ Mich. FL I. p. 299. t. 27. Rubus 

 Dalibardd L. W ill d. Spec. il. p. 1090. Smith icon. 

 t, 20. 



i?oor perennial. Siem herbaceous, creeping, rooting and throw- 

 ing out suckers at intervals. Leaves on long petioles, roundish- 

 cordate, about an inch and a half in diameter, hairy on both 

 sides. Scapes l-Howered, filiform, longer than the petioles. 

 Segmentsof the ca/yj7 ovate-lanceolate, 2 or 3 of them toothed 

 towards the summit. Petals white, ovate, obtuse, as long again 

 as the calyx. Stamens very numerous ; JUaments capillary ; 

 antfiers minute. Styles about 7 ; stigmas simple, involute at 

 the summit. 



Hab. In woods and on mountains. New-England, and in the 

 northern and western parts of the State of New-York. June. 



2. D. fragarioides M i c h. : leaves ternate ; leaflets 

 ovate, incisely serrate, cuneate at the base ; peduncles manj- 

 ilowercd. M i c h. FL I. p. 300. t. 28. Pursh FL I. p. 

 360. Elliott Sk. I. p. 571. 



Root perennial, creeping. Leaves on petioles 3 — 4 inches long, 

 ternate or rarely quinate; leaflets dilated-ovate, hairy on both 

 sides, toothed and serrate above, obtusely cuneate below ; the 

 lateral leaflets subsessile. Sca/ies longer than the petioles, 

 slender, with 2 — 3 small leafy bracts, 3 — 5-flowered. Calyx 

 turbinate, smoothish, with spreading acute segments. Petals 

 yellow, obovate. Sla7ner2s very mimeroxit. 



ilAB. In woods ; principally in mountainous regions. Canada 

 "to Carolina. Not found in the Middle States near the sea- 

 coast. May. 



328. DRYAS, L. 

 Calyx 8 — 10-cleft ; segments equaL Petals 5—8. 

 Seeds 5 — 8, with long plumose awns. Gen. pi. 868. 

 .Yutt. GV/2. I. p. 309. Juss.p.338. Lam. III. 

 t 443. f. 2. Nat. Ord. Rosacea Juss. 



Mountain Avens. 



