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1.' G. MACULATUM, L. Sijcc, G81. A foot to a foot and a half high, erect, subsimple, 

 not cespitose, pubescent or canescent with spreading or mostly retrorse hairs, occasion- 

 ally villous; leaves mottled, the radical mostly 2-4, long-petioled, suborbicular, incisely 

 3- or sometimes 5-parted, the divisions cuneate, the lower 2-cleft and all once to thrice 

 3-lobed at apex Avith abruptly acute or subacuminate coarsely acuminate-serrate lobes, 

 basal sinus open, V-shaped ; cauline leaves mostly tAvo and opposite, occasionally alter- 

 nate or sessile, otherwise like the radical ; stipules oblong -elongated-triangular, entire 

 or acutely 1-3-lobed near the apex; peduncles 1-5, mostly 3, umbellately clustered 

 between the stem-leaves, simple or once or twice umbellately branched, the lateral fre- 

 quently bearing single or paired reduced leaves; pedicels mostly paired, at length about 

 au inch long, erect in fruit, retrorse-canescent; bracts linear, similar to the stipules; 

 flowers large, rose-purple; sepals ovate-oblong, abruptly awned, the outer mostly vil- 

 lous and the inner ciliate; petals about 15mm. long, woolly-eiliate at base; filaments 

 somewhat ciliate; beak of fruit 25-35 mm. long, finely pubescent, abruptly narrowed 

 above; styles free for 2-3 mm.; divisions of ovary sparingly close-pubescent and villous, 

 8.5-4mm. long; seed finely reticulate-ridged, as in the rest of this section, 1.5 x 2mm. 

 ■ — Oi)cn groves, Canada and New England to Saskatchewan and Missouri, south to 

 Florida {fide Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. A.) and Alabama (Mohr, Prelim. List PL Ala. ) ; 

 common in the northern states. I have seen no specimens from farther south than 

 Georgia and Kentucky. — PI. 9, figs. 1-2; 10, fig. 4; 12, fig. 5. 



2. G. EKIANTHUM, DC. Prodr., T, 641. G. maculatum, fi. Hook. Similar to the last, 

 but more or less leafy -branched ; leaves with more numerous narrower crowded lobes ; 

 pedicels scarcely over a half-inch long, erect in fruit, unequa]ly canesccnt-pilose; calyx 

 densely villous with long white hairs, many of them gland-tipped; petals purple, gla- 

 brous or minutely pubescent on the inner side ; filaments long-pilose; beak 30-35 ram. 

 long, canescent and somewhat villous, slender-tipped; styles free for 2-3 mm.; seed 

 1.5 X 3mm. — Alaska and northwest British America; also in northeast Asia. — PL 9, fig. 

 3; 10, fig. 8. 



3. G. INCISUM, Nutt., Torrey & Gray, Fl. N. A., i, 206. G. alhiflorum, var. (?) in- 

 cisum, Torr. & Gr. G. Ilookerianum, var. incisum,, Walp. G. viscosissimum, Fisch. 

 & Mey. (r. pe?ito(/^/i«m, Engelm. ! G. Fremontii, M.-agouw, G-At. nos. 325-6. G. eri- 

 anthum, Torrey, Bot. Wilkes' Exped., 251. Habit of G. maculatum but coai-ser, uni- 

 formly leafy-branched above, the branchlets subtended by more or less reduced leaves; 

 pedicels and often petioles or even the entire plant dirty glandular-pubescent and some- 

 what unequally villous; leaves incisely 3- or mostly 5-parted, the lowest divisions 

 again 2-cleft and all rather narrowly cuneate, basal sinus usually narrow, V-shaped or 

 nearly closed; pedicels at last an inch or two long, the longest more or less refracted in 

 fruit; flowers about as large as in G. maculatum and similarly colored; outer sepals 

 glandular and somewhat villous; petals (within) and filaments sparingly white-villous; 

 beak 35^5 mm. long, very glandular, short-pointed; styles free for 4-6 mm. ; divisions of 

 ovary glandular, 3x5mm.; seed 2x3mm. — "Woods and open places, mountains of 

 British America to Dakota and California. — PL 9, figs. 4-5; 10, fig, 11; 12, fig. 1. 



' Only the munbered species belong to our flora as endemic or truly naturalized. 



