ICOSANDRIA—POLYGYNIA. Geum. 42J> 



Root perennial, woody, astringent. Stem herbaceous, not 

 much branched. Leaves green on both sides, hairy, in- 

 terruptedly pinnate, lyrate, rarely simple, variously cut. 

 Ft. terminal, one or many, yellow, seldom reddish or 

 brownish, inodorous, often handsome. Natives of Europe 

 or America, in cold or temperate climates, or on mountains. 



1. G. urbanuni. Common Avens. Herb Bennet. 



Leaves ternate; radical ones somewhat lyrate. Stipulas 



rounded, cut. Flowers nearly upright. Styles naked. 

 G. urbanum. Linn. Sp. PL 716. Willd. v.2.\\\3. Fl. Br. 554. 



Engl.Bot.v.20.t.\'\0{). Curt.Lo7id.fasc.2. t.3G. IVoodv.suppL 



t. 259. Hook. Scot. 165. FL Dan. t. 672. 

 G. n. 1 130. HaU. Hist. v. 2. 52. 

 Caryophyllata. Raii Syn.2r)3. Ger.Em.094.f. Dod.Pempt. \37.f. 



Mutth. Valgr. v. 2. 333. f. Camer. Epit. 725./. Brunf. Herb. 



v.2.42.f. TilUindsIc. 34./. 

 C.hortensis. Fiichs. Hist. 3S4./. 

 C. vulgaris. Bauh. Pin. 32 1 . 

 Avens, Herb Bennet. Pet. H. Brit. t. 40/ 1 . 

 /3. Willd. V. 2. 1114. FL Br. 554. 



Geum intermedium. Ehrh. Beitr. v. 6. 143. Herb. 106, 

 G. rivale /3. Fl. Br. 555. 



Caryophyllata vulgaris, majore flore. Bauh. Pin. 32 1 . Raii Syn. 253. 

 C. sylvestris. Fiiclis. Hist. 385./. 

 Great-flowered Avens. Pet. H Brit. t. 40./. 2. 



In woods, shady dry hedges and thickets, frequent. 



/3. Near St. Helen's well, by Darlington. Mr. Robson. In a low 

 sliady grove, by the river, at Matlock bath, Derbyshire. 



Perennial. Maij — August. 



Root of many stout brown fibres, astringent, and in some degree 

 aromatic, said to give an agreeable clove-like flavour to beer, 

 and even to wine. Stem 2 feet high, erect, round, rough and 

 finely hairy ; branched at the upper part, bearing several flowers. 

 Radical leaves on long stalks, interruptedly ])innate, somewhat 

 lyrate, the odd leaflet rounded, often deeply 3-lobed ; stem- 

 leaves ternate, stalked ; upper simple, 3-l()bed, wedge-shaped j 

 all variously notched and serrated, grass-green, veiny, hairy. 

 Stipulas of the stem-leaves very large, rouniled, lobed, serrated, 

 leafy. Fl. terminal, solitary, stalked ; commonlv small, bright 

 yellow, erect ; in /3 larger and more tawny, somewhat droop- 

 ing, (jil. spreading, reflexed as the fruit advances. Seeds in an 

 ovate head, numerous, ovate, downy, besides a few long coarse 

 hairs about the summit, each tii)ped with a rigid, purplish, de- 

 flexed awn or tail, whicii is (piite smooth, ending in a small sharp 

 hook In an early state tiiis hook forms the curved part of the 

 shjle, but the sm.ill portion above tliat part, a^v;ly.^ likewise, in 



