210 OCTANDRIA TETRAGYNIA. 



The root is fiiifoi m and I'caly : the ftalk Tingle, an- 

 gular^ ..nd four or five inches high : the radical 

 leavv-*^ are about foui in number, branched into 

 doucly ternate divilions : the foliola fmooth and 

 divided generally into three lobes •, their foot'- 

 Halks channel'd : two fimply ternate leaves grow 

 cppofite to each other above the middle of the 

 ftalk : the peduncle is quadrangular, naked, 

 and terminates the ftalk, on the fummir of which 

 grows a cubical clufter of five green flowers, 

 with yellow antheras •, the uppermoft of which 

 f^ov/ers is quadrifid, the lateral ones quinquefid : 

 the berries are green, the calyx and corolla re- 

 maining on them. 



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