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rOLFAKDRIA POLTGYNIA. 



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3. VlRGIxiANA, 



A.cauie diclioto 

 foliis ternatis, superio 



ribus o})pt 



inciso labatis serratis 



St 



e 



n dichotomoiTS 

 temate^ the up 



7 



Sit 



? 



foliolis per opposite 



? 



a. 



flets 



iobcd 



ate 



que, acutis; pedun 



lis solit 

 elongatis 



■^ 



? 



floris 

 i nib us 



f 



mucroiicitis, in reccp 

 taculo oblongOjlanatc 

 aggreeatis 



cute; peduncles solita 



ry, one 

 seeds niu 

 lected on 



flowered, lo 



^1 



onate, col 

 an oblong 



> 



Uy receptacle 



5SS. 



Sp. pi. 2. p, 1279. Walt. p. 157 



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Pursh:, 2. P-! 



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4,1- 



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Hoof tubcrpus, small, Stem herbaccou§, slmpie? pubescent, almost vil- 

 lous, 2—3 feet high, tlividecj; ?it the first involucvum producing 1- 

 jBowered peduncles. XjC^tes of the involucrum similvir to thos.e of the root^ 

 all rugose, hairy. Petals generally 5^ of an obscure white colour, the two 

 exterior green and pubescent on the outer surface, lanceolate, acute, 

 (hree interior ohoyate, ob.tusc and also pubescent on the outer surface. 

 Stamens very numerous, much shorter than the corolla. Germs very nu- 

 merous eollcoted into f^n qblong ovate capitulum; receptacle woolly . Seeds^ 

 compressed mucronate. 



Grows in shaded fertile soils, fouud within three miles of Charleslont 

 jFlowers July — August. 



4. Walter!. Pursh. 



A. foliis radicali 



bus palmatis, longius 



petiolatis ^ pedunculo 



Root leaves paliuate 



pe 



on long petioles ; 



9. 



duHcle from the root 

 radicali, longo, erecto, [ long, erect, one flow 

 unifloro; petalis 5; ra 

 dice tuberosa. 



y 



ered 

 tuberous. 



5 



petals 3 5 root 



Pnrsh 2. p. 387. 



Thalictruin Carolinianum. Walter. 



Following Pursh and De CandoUe, T add this plant of Walter, as pro 

 Ibably a species of Anemone, without Jiaving jt in my power to add «iny 

 information on the subjeel, or to ascertain what plant was really described 

 nnder this name. 



