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p. 954: A. Gray in ?( ri y's Ex)>(>(1. Jaji. (IS.IG) p. noc, et But. Jap. in 

 Mem. AiJi'T. Aca.1. Art ct Sc. n. s. VT. (1S:)9) p. 37;». 



Root tuberous, ovoiil t(i ol)loni>', vcrt-'u"il ox ulilirpie, often lengthonotl ami 

 snbflexnous and SMtnetiinrs f.n'kcd cr nunnse aLuvr, smooth, or uneven with 

 annular wrincles or small protuberances, brownish-blaek, thick, solid, white 

 internally, attaining- alvmt J.lmni. in diameter, with ti()rons roots towards 

 the end: tilirou:- roots delicate, many, often dense, dark-brown, with very fine 

 rootlets, lladical leaves tufted, numerous, long-netiohxl, simply trisected, 

 reniform-orbicnlar in outline, [-31 cm. long, 2-4 J cm. broad ; segments shortly 

 petiolulate, llabellatcly ;l-parted with closed 'minuses, sulirhonibeo- rounded. 

 0-2(1 mm. long, very broadly cuueate at the base in the middle segment, 

 but truncato-cuneate in the latcr.il ones, !■ bes obovato-euneate, connnonly 

 tri-bi-lobulati' into munded ovato-roundi'<l or elliptical and very niiinitely 

 mucronate teeth, green and often albo-variegated above, glaucous and often 

 shaded with purple ; main-nerves tlabel]at(\ delicate ; veinlets l(X)sely anas- 

 tomosing ; pedicel 3-12 nun. long, gracile, thinly pubescent with delicat 

 patent hairs as is tire petiole; petiole slender, graciie, terete, 4-13 cm. knig 

 vagina ovate, oval ovate, ovate-deltoid, thinly membranaceous, entire, witl 

 .3 main nerves in the middle i)ortion, about .■)-10 mm. long. Caulin 

 leaves distantly alternat(>, shortly i)etiojate in tlie lower ones, but sessile 

 in the upper ones, similar to the radical one in their forms, divisions and 

 venations, but the upper ones simpler and smaller, green, often shatled with 

 jiurple, glaucous beneath ; vagina short, i— 1 mm. long, ovato-square or 

 transversely obovate, obovate, membranaceous towards th(! margin, the 

 upper edges often minutely erosulate. Sterars 8 -40 cm. lilgh, one to .ooveral, 

 erect, much exceedinsr the radical leaves in iieis-ht, gracile, sn])fistulose, very 

 laxly ramose with erect-patent branches, terete, often subangular, thinly pubes- 

 cent with delicate patent subglandular v/liite hairs (which are enlarged towards 

 the base), the lower portion free i'rom the leaves, green, often [.urpurascent, 

 herbaceous. Flowers minute, terminating tlie elongated filiform tliin-pub(\s- 

 cent pedicel, nodding, 4:-Gi mm. long ; receptacle thick, depressed. Sepals 

 '), campanulately scmipatent, imbricated in bud, petaloid, olilong-lanceolate, 

 obtuse, sometimes acutish, entire, shortly attenuated as to form a broad 

 imguis at the base, membranaceous, laxly nervate, white, sluuh^l with 

 ])urple externally, 4-61 mm. long. Petals .";, alternate with and shorter 

 than sepals, sessile, imbricated erect, s])athulately ob-ivato-cimeate, truncate 

 at the apex, membranaceous, yellowish above, IcMsely nerved, .3-31 mm. 

 long, 11. mm. wide, suddenly incurved and thicker in textiu-e at the liasc, 

 compresscd-infundibuliforni below, with the bitid inner edge about one- 



