76 DIALYPETALOUS EXOGEXS 



Obs. This is a somewhat variable plant. Our variety appears to 

 be the latifolia, of authors. 



115. GILXEOTA, Moeneh. 



[Derivation of the name not well ascertained.] 



Calyx tubular-campanulate, 5-toothed. Petals 5, linear-lanceolate, 

 elongated, convolute in the bud. Carpels 5, included in the calyx, 

 each 2-seeded. Perennial herbs : leaves trifoliolate. 



1. Cc. trifoliata, Moeneh. Leaflets lanceolate or ovate-oblong, 

 acuminate, incised-serrate ; stipules small, subulate. 

 THKEE-LEAVED GILLENIA. Indian Physic. Bowman's Root. 



Stem 2 to 3 or 4 feet high, slender, paniculately branched at summit, mostly 

 purplish. Leaflets 2 to 4 inches long, subsessile. Flowers white, or slightly 

 tinged with red, loosely corymbose-paniculate. 

 Hob. Woodlands, and thickets : frequent. Fl. June. Fr. Aug. 



Obs. This plant has had considerable reputation for its medicinal 

 properties ; but is rarely resorted to, at present. There is another 

 species, with large stipules, in the West. The Kerria Japonica, 

 DC. (Corchorus Japonicus, Thunberg], or golden Globe-flower, a 

 suffruticose plant of this Tribe, has been extensively introduced 

 among ornamental shrubbery, and is becoming almost naturalized. 



TRIBE 2. DRYA V DEAE. 



Pistils becoming dry dkenes, or sometimes little drupes, in fruit, when numerous, 

 collected on a conical or hemispherical receptacle ; calyx-tube dry ; segments mostly 

 valvate. 



116. AGRIMO N 1VIA, Tournef. 

 [Said to be of the same derivation with Argemone : which see.] 

 Calyx-tube turbinate, armed with hooked bristles above, indurated, 

 with 2 bractlets at base. Petals 5. Stamens about 12. Akenes 2, 

 included in the calyx-tube. Perennial herbs : leaves interruptedly 

 pseudo-pinnate, with a terminal leaflet or segment; flowers in a 

 slender spicate raceme. 



1. A. EupatiU'ia, L. Hirsute ; principal leaflets 5 to 7, ovate- 

 oblong, coarsely serrate, the intervening ones small, ovate. 

 Agrimony. 



Stem 2 to 3 feet high, simple. Leaves 4 or 5 to 9 inches long ; principal leaflets or 

 segments 2 to 3 or 4 inches in length, sometimes with 2 or 3 pairs of intervening 

 small ones. Flowers yellow, in a terminal virgate raceme 3 to 6 or 8 inches in 

 length, each pedicel with a trifid bract at base. 

 Hob. Borders of thickets ; fence-rows, &c.: frequent. Fl. July. Fr. Sept. 



SAtfGUISOR'BA, L. 



[Latin, sanguis, blood, and sorbeo, to absorb ; being supposed to stop bleeding.] 

 Calyx corolla-like, 4-lobed, with a 4-angled tube, and 3 bractlets at 

 base. Petals none. Stamens 4. Pistil mostly 1; stigma pencil- 

 form. Akene included in the indurated 4-winged calyx-tube. 

 Mostly perennial herbs : leaves odd-pinnate ; flowers small, in dense 

 terminal long-peduncled spikes. 



1. S. < aiiatlensis, L. Leaflets ovate-oblong, obtuse, cordate 



