100 DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS. 



stipules reiiiform ; corymbs proliferous ; flowers with 3 5 short styles ; 

 sepals reflexed. & palmata Linn. 



HAB. Penn. to Car. June. 1. Flowers rose-colour, in a com- 

 pound cyme. 



2. GILLENIA. Momch. Ni/it. 



Calyx tubular-campanulate, contracted at the mouth, 5- 

 cleft. Petals 5, linear-lanceolate, somevvha't unequal, coarc- 

 tate at the claws. Stamens 1015, included. Styles 5, 

 contiguous. Stigmas capitate. Capsuh 5-celled ; cells 2- 

 seeded. Icosandria. Di-Pentagynia. 



1. G. trtfoliata Mctnck. : leaves ternate ; leafets lanceolate, serrate, 

 subequal ; stipules small, linear, entire ; flowers in loose terminal pa- 

 nicles, large. Sj/irtca trtfoliata Linn* 



HAB. Shady woods. N. J. to Gear. W. to Miss. ; rare. June. 

 U'Slem 23 feet high. Flowers white, in a few flowered ter- 

 minal panicle. Petals long. Medicinal, emetic, &c. Bart. 

 Veg. Mat. Med. i. 69. Big. Med. Bot. iii. 11. 



Indian Physic. Ipecac. 



2. G. stipulacea Nutt. : radical leaves pinnatifid ; stem leaves ter- 

 nate ; leafets incisely serrate ; stipules foliaceous, ovate, incisely tooth- 

 ed and clasping ; flowers in loose terminal panicles, large. /S^ircca sti- 

 11 ni, it, i MvM. 



HAB. Western part of N. Y. W. to Miss. S. to Car. June. 

 L(. It resembles the former, but can readily be distinguished 

 by its large clasping stipules. I have fine specimens gathered 

 in the western part of N. Y. by Pavid Thomas, Esq. 



3. DRYAS. Limt. 



Calyx 89 parted, naked without ; tuhe somewhat con- 

 cave. Petals 8 9. Statncns many. Carpels many, crowii- 

 ed by a terminal style, at length terminating in a bearded plu- 

 mose awn. Seed ascending. Icosandria. Polygynia. 



D. \ntegrifoliaVahl.: leaves very entire, acute at base. D. tendla 

 Pursk. 



HAB. On the white hills of N. H. July. 1C. Peduncles 1 -flow- 

 ered. Scarcely differs from D. octopCtala found in the north 

 western part of Canada. 



4. GEUM. Linn. 



Calyx with the tuhe concave ; 10-cleft ; the alternate seg- 

 ments smaller (or limb 5-cleft and 5-bracted.) Petals 5. 

 Stamens many. Carpels in a head, awned ; awn naked or 

 bearded, mostly jointed. Icosandria. Polygynia. 



