144 BAXiruAfiACi-M-:. (s.vxiFKAr.i: FAMILY.) 



1. B. aconitifolia, Nutt. Stem glandular (6' -JO* high); leaves deep- 

 ly 5-7-lobcd. Mountains of S. W. Virginia, and southward. July. 



4. SUL.L.IVA1VTIA, TOIT. & Gray. SULLIVAXTIA. 



Calyx bell-shaped, cohering below only with the base of the ovary, 5-cleft 

 Petals 5, entire, acutish, withering-persistent. Stamens 5, shorter than the pet- 

 als. Pud 2-ceIled, 2-bcaked, many-seeded, opening between the beaks: the 

 wing-margined, imbricated upwards. A low and reclined-spreading pe- 

 rennial herb, with rounded and cut-toothed, or slightly lobed, smooth lea 

 slender petioles, and small white flowers in a branched loosely cymose panicle, 

 raised on a nearly leafless slender seape (6' -12' long). Peduncles and calyx 

 glandular: pedicels recurved in fruit. (Dedicated to the distinguished botanist 

 who discovered the only species. 



1. S. Oliioflis, Torr. & Gr. [Gray, Clitoris Bor.-Arn., pi. 6.) Limestone 

 dill's, Highland County, Ohio, Sullivant ; Wisconsin River, Lapham. June. 



5. IIEUCIIEItA, L. ALUM-ROOT. 



Calyx bell-shaped ; the tube cohering at the base with the ovary. f>-eleft. Pet- 

 als 5, spatnlate, small, entire. Stamens 5. Styles 2, slender. Pod 1 -celled, 

 with 2 parietal many-seeded placenta?, 2-beaked, opening between the beaks. 

 Seeds oval, with a rough and dose seed-coat. Perennials, with the round 

 heart-shaped leaves principally from the rootstock ; those on the scapes, if any, 

 alternate. Petioles with dilated margins or adherent stipules at their 

 Flowers in small du-iers disposed in a prolonged and narrow panicle, greenish 

 or purplish. (Named in honor of Ih 'in-lirr, an early German botanist.) 



* Flou-ei-s small, loosely jianiclcd : stamens and styles exsertcd : calyx regular. 



1. II. Villosa, Miehx. Scapes (l-3 high), petioles, and veins of the 

 acutely 7-9-lobed leaves beneath villous with rusty hairs; calyx \\" long; jx-tals 

 Sf>atnlafe-liiif.'(ii', about as lout/ us the stamens, soon twisted. Rocks, Maryland, 

 Kentucky, and southward, in and near the mountains. July, Aug. 



2. II. AmericfillSl, L. (COMMON ALUM-ROOT.) Scapes (2 -3 high) 

 c. (/litndii/ar and more or less hirsute with short hairs; leaves roundish, with 

 short rounded lobes and crenate teeth; calyx broad, 2" long, the si 



not loiiycr t/uin its lobes. llocky woodlands, Connecticut to Wisconsin and 

 southward. June. 



* # Flowers linytr: calyx (3" -4" long) more or kss ol>Hque: stamens short : panicle 

 n n/ narrow : leaves rounded, slifjhth/ 5 - 9-lobed, 



3. II. llf^pidilf Pursh. Hispid or hirsute, with long spreading hairs (or, 

 casionally almost glabrous), scarcely glandular ; st" . r titan 

 llic s/iatn/atc pdal*. (II. Riehardsonii, R. Br.) Mountains of Virginia. Also 

 Illinois (Dr. M,-nd) and northwestward. May- July. Sea]>es 2-4 high. 



4. II. pllbt'SCrilS, Pursh. Snipe (l-.'3 high), &c. </raiiii!,ir-p' 



t>r glandular above, toOt hairy, below often glabrous, a^ are usually the rounded 

 leaves; fUMOU xlurti-T tliatt lli>- A/'S of the nilij.r and the spatulate petals. 

 Mouni MM. to Virginia and Kentucky. June, July. 



