D» N. Jon. SCHEUIZ, 
mis; styli artieulo inferiore artieulum superiorem hispidulum multiplo 
excedente; carpophoro glaberrimo sessili. 
Syn. G. virginianum Linn. Spec. plant., 2, p. 716 (excl. plant. Sibir. ex Fisch. et Mey.). 
— Willd. Spec. plant. 2, p. 1113 (excl. syn. Murr. et ” 
Trattin. Rosac. Monogr. 3, p. 118. — Fisch. et Trautv. Ind. sem. h. Petrop. 
III, p. 33 et in Linn. XII, p. 93. — Meyer Ind. sem. hort. Petrop. XI, p. 24. — 
A. Gray Man. of the Botany of the North Amer. Unit. Stat., p. 152. 
seminibus pilosis"). — 
7. laciniatum Murr. Comment. Goctt. V, p. 30, t. 2. 
1. heterophyllum Desf. h. Paris., p. 409 (ex Fisch. et Mey.) Dec. Prodr. 2, p. 550. 
G. hirsutum Mühlenb. in Link. hort. Berol. (ex Fries, cujus in herb. etiam sub hoe 
nomiue adest; in horto quoque Lundensi sub hoe nomine olim cultum fuit). 
Caryophyllata alba Mónch sec. Stud. nom. 
Caryophyllata virginiana Lam. sec. Steud. — Herm. hort. Lugd. batav. Catal. p. 212, 
sed figura in Herm. parad. batav., p. 111 potius ad album referenda. 
Habit. in America septentrionali ut in Virginia (loe. Linnæan.), Cambridge (E. 
TUCKERMAN in herb. Fries). Ad Novam Eboracum (GRAY ex MEYER). America 
boreal. (herb. Swartz et RAVN in mus. Hafniens.). Ut loca natalia prseterea affe- 
renda: Council Grove, Missouri (A. Gray pl. Fendler. Novi-Mexic.); Western Texas 
(Torr. et Gray Bot. repert. p. 8. — In herbb. interdum adest sub nomine Gei albi; 
sic in herb. Holmiensi adest specimen inscriptum "Geum album Lin. Amer. septentr. 
1833 Asa Gray”, quod ad hane specimen haud dubie pertinet. In hortis botanicis vul- 
gatum (v. v.). ? , 
Herba piloso-hirsutissima, pedalis et ultra. Caulis robustus, erectus, ramo- 
sus, ramis rigidis et robustis. Folia radicalia primaria simplieia magnaque, cordato- 
reniformia, sublobata, rarius tripartita; folia alia radicalia pinnatipartita, laciniis varie 
disseetis. Folia eaulina inferiora pinnatipartita varieque dissecta, superiora tripartita; 
laciniis latis, acutis acuminatisve. Stipulæ ovate, dentatæ, minores. Peduneuli flori- 
feri et fructiferi breves, rigidi. Flores ut in Geo albo albidi, parvi, declinati. Petala 
oblonga. Capitulum carpellorum glaberrimum, sphæricum. Carpophorum sessile, gla- 
berrimum. Carpella plurima, glaberrima, arista paulo breviore apice uncinata ter- 
minata. 
Obs. 1. Mira apud auctores confusio specierum G. virginiani et G. albi, que 
tamen plerumque primo intuitu distinguendæ. Ante Willdenowium complures G. vir- 
ginianum et album in unam speciem conjunxerunt. — Planta, quam Linnæus in Spec. 
plant. ed. 1, p. 500 descripsit, est dubia, quare ut synonymon supra non attuli; eam 
vero in Spee. plant. ed. 2, p. 716 descriptam in nostram quadrare apparet. 
Obs. 2. Torrey et Gray in Flora of North Amer. 1, p. 421 observant: ” We 
are not aquainted with any white-flowered American species hat a globrous recep- 
tacle. Perhaps the G. virginianum of Fischer et Meyer (= G. heterophyllum Desf.) 
is not a native of this county. It certainly is not the original Linnean plant.” Sed 
deinde in Manual of the Botany of the North Americ. Unit. Stat. A. Gray observat 
de hae planta: "Clearly different from the least” (= G. album). 
