FOLTANDRIA POL¥GT&'a. 61 



Boot fibrous, perennial. Stem procumbent m:id erect, about two feet 

 high,, furrowed, and a little hairy. Leaves with the lateral segments un- 

 equal at the base, the middle one sometimes on a long- petiole, all shining- 

 glabrous, with a kw hairs along the under surface of the veins, petioles 



of the root leaves sometimes 1 foot long Flowers on peduncles 2 6 



inches long. Ca/3/a; a little hairy. Petals 7—8, bright yellow, glossy 

 vemy, with a square scale at base. Filaments 60 — 80 very short. Gemi 

 20 or more, collected in a globose he.ad. Seeds compressed, whh a very 

 distinct border, and the point recurved. - 



WT^y^^ P'^^tj t'le R. nitldus of Muhlenberg's Catalogue, but not of 

 Walter, is nearly allied to the R. repens, but diifers from it by the want of 

 runners, by its reflected calyx, by its petals that are simply obtuse, never 

 obcordate nor even emarghmte, by the recurved summit of its seed, and 

 by Its leaves, which if we judge by the figure of the R repens in Smith'* 

 Englisli Botany, are larger, with the segments more distinctly separated 

 more regularly lanceolate and more acutely serrate. ' 



Grows in wet gi-ounds. V^ery common in the river swamps of Georgia. 

 Flowers March and April. . &. 



9. Palmatus? E. 



R. pilosus, pilis ad 

 pressis: foliis omni- 



us petiolatis^radicali 

 us palmato triparti 

 tis, lobis dentatis: su 



Hairy, with the 



hairs appressed; leaves 

 all on footstalks, those 

 of the root palmately 

 3 parted, with the lo- 

 perioribus trifidis in- [ bes toothed, the upper 

 tegrisye 5 seminibus 3-cIeft or entire; seeds 

 marginatis acumine margined, with the 

 recto. E. | point straight. 



Boot fibrous. Stem 12 to IS inches high, branching, hairy, and whfe 

 the hair as in ^y^ry part of the plaijt, closely appressed. Leancs obtuse 

 at base, 3 parted with the lobes expanding and dentate, the upper leaves 

 with 2 lateral teetli, when small, entire. Petioles of the root leaves 4—5 

 wches long. Flowers opposite the leaves, on long slender peduncles. 

 1 lie calyx and corolla I have not seen "' ' 



the seed of many of our stpecies, with 

 Grows in St. Jolm's Berkley. 

 Flowers April — May. 



tl^ 



^0- Carolijjianus. 



R. caule erecto sub- I 3tem erect, liranch 

 ramoso, petiolisque | ing ^ad with the petio 



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