PLANT DESCRIPTION. 139 



Description of Fig. 249. 



KOOTS fasciculated. 



STEM slender, weak, round, herbaceous, hairy. 



LEAVES radical and cauline. Radical leaves, 

 petiolate, exstipulate, deeply twice ternately lobed; 

 petioles long, hairy. Cauline leaves sessile alter- 

 nate, shaped like the radical leaves, but much 

 smaller. 



INFLORESCENCE solitary, terminal. 



FLOWER. CALYX ; sepals 5, polysepalous, regu- 

 lar, spreading : COROLLA ; petals 5, polypetalous, 

 regular, oval, spreading: STAMENS many; filaments 

 threadlike ; anthers short, two-celled : PISTIL ; car- 

 pels many ; styles very short or absent ; stigma 

 inner and upper part of carpel or style. 





