PLANT DESCRIPTION. 129 



Description of Fig. 244. 



BOOTS fasciculated. 



STEM erect, round, slender, herbaceous. 



LEAVES radical and cauliue. Radical leaves 

 twice ternately three-fingered ; leaflets petiolulate, 

 palmate-veined, three-lobed at the end, sub-cordate; 

 petiole long and slender. Cauline leaves numer- 

 ous, simple, petiolate, exstipulate, formed like the 

 leaflets of the radical leaves, placed in a whorl at 

 the base of the inflorescence. 



INFLORESCENCE a loose terminal umbel. 



FLOWER. CALYX ; sepals 6-8, spreading, poly- 

 sepalous, regular : COROLLA ; petals none : STAMENS 

 many ; filaments thread-like ; anthers two-celled : 

 PISTIL ; carpels many. 



