POLYANDRIA POLYGYRIA, 



B1 



ceo mitltifidis 



5 



pet alls 



obovatis calyce ma- ovate 



many cleft; petals ob 



? 



joribus. 



seminibus 



larger than the 



glabris. DeCandoUe 

 1. p. 235. 



calyx; seeds glabrous 



Sp. pi. 



p. 1333. Pursh, 2. p. 395. 



Root perennial. Stem flexible, floating, branching. Leaves alterhate, 



very finely dissected. Flowers on axilUuy peduncles 1 



Grows in tranquil streams in the upper Districts of Carolina 

 It does not occur in the low country. 



Flowers June — August. 



2 inches long. 



Pursh. 



•f 



^ 



** Florihus luteis; 



*^ Flowers yellow; 



foliis integris dentatiS' leaves entire or tooth 



ve, radice Jlbrosa. 



3. PusiLLus. Pursh. 



ed 



9 



Tootjihrous* 



• 



* 



R. 



glaber ; 



foliis 



Glabrous ; leaves 



omnibus petiolatis, all petiolate, denticu 

 denticulatis, inferior- I late, the lower ovate 



the 



ibus subcordato-ova 

 tis, superioribus line 

 ari-lanceolatis^ supre 





slightly cordate 



9 



lanceolate 



5 



mis linearibus; 



pe 



upper 



and linear; peduncles 



opposite the leaves, 



duuculis oppositifoliis, solitary, one flowered; 

 solitariis, unifloris; petals as long as the 



petalis calycis longi 

 tudine. 



calyx. 



H 1 



Pursh, 2. p. 392. De CandoUe 1. p. 249. 



R- flammula? Walt, p. 159» 



-V* 



J2oo^ fibrous, perennial F Stem herbaceous, generally decumbent, spa- 

 ringly branched^ 6 — 12 inches high* Leaves on petioles (the lower 2— 3 

 inches long) very obtuse and sometimes slightly cordate at base. Ffo«v 

 rrs very small at the summit of the small branches. Leaves of the calyx 

 pvrite, obtuse, deciduous, 



line long, nearly round, yellow, the pore nearlhe base of the petal not on 



the daw^ '^' 



Petals scarcely larger than the calvT, about 1- 



Stamens f — s^ shorter than the calyx. Germs numerous, ^ 



▼Ot. II, 



H 



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