FENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. ^ SS? 



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HEUCHERA. 



Petala 5. Capsula 2- f Petals 5. Capsule S. 

 i'ostjis, 2-locularis, beaked, 2 celled. 





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Viscid and pubescent 

 scapes naked, tbyrsus e 

 longated ; radical leaves 

 on long petioles, with 

 rounded lobes. 



1. Americana. 



* H. viscoso-pubescens ; 



scapis subuudisj thyrso 



elongato ; foliis radicali- 



bus longe petiolatis, ro- 



tundato-Iobatis. Pers^ 1. 

 p. S90. 



Sp. pi. 1, p. Walt. p. 111. 



II. cortusa, Mich. 1. p. 171. 

 H. viscida, Pursh, 1. p. 187. 



Perennial. Stem 0. Leaves all radical, cordate, 5—7 lobed, the 

 lobes rounded and dentate ; tlie teeth mucronate, the margin of the 

 leaves finely fringed j leaves 2—3 inches in either direction. Peti- 

 oles 4—6 inches long. Scape naked, 2—3 feet high, terete. Flow- 

 ers in a long terminal panicle or thyrsus. Calyx 5 parted. Petals 

 small, inserted into the tube of the calyx. Filaments much lono-er 

 than the calyx, into which tliey are inserted. Anthers 2 celled. 

 Germ superior, 2 parted, at the summit tapering into 2 long styles. 

 Capsule in 2 long beaks. Seeds numerous, small. 



_ Grows in close, rich soils ; generally near water courses ; Colum- 

 bia county, Georgia. 



Flowers April — May. 



2. HispiDA. Pursb. 



H. foliis acute-lobatis j Leaves acutely lobed 

 dentatisque, supra hispi- | and tootbed, bispid on 

 do-pilosis ; pedunculis tbe upper surface ; ped- 

 panicul^ paucifloris ; pe- uncles of the panicle few 

 talis spathulatis, longitu- | flowered ; petals spatbu 

 dine calycis. Pursb, i. I late, as long as tbe caly 



p. 188. 



Petioles and under surface of the leaves glabrous j teeth of the 

 leaves very short, slightly retuse, mucronate. Calyjc short, acute. 

 Stamens exserted. Pursh. 



Alay— -J 



ina. Pursb, 



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