X. 



GEUM URBAN UM. 



Common Avens, or Herh-BeiDiet. 



Class XIT. TcosANDRiA. — Order III. Polygynia. 

 Nat. Ord. Rosacea. 



Gen. Char. Calyx- ten-cleft ; the alternate segments 

 smaller. Petals five. Pericarps with long, geniculated 

 awns. Receptacle elongated. 



Spec. Char. Flowers erect. Cauline leaves ternate ; 

 radical ones lyrato-pinnate. Awns hooked, naked. 



SYNONYMES. 



rCaryophyllata. Rail Syn. 253. Ger. Em. 994. 

 Latin \ Caryophyllata vulgaris. Bank. Pin. 321. 



f Geum urbanum. Liti. Sp. PL 716, 

 French.... Benoite ; Herbe de St. Benoit ; Galiote; Recise. 



Italian Gariofillata ; Cariofillata ; Erba Benedetta. 



Spajiish Gariofilata ; Gariofilea. 



Portuguese.. Gariofillata. 



German Benediktenkraut ; Nelkenwurzel. 



Dutch Nagelkruid ; Gezegent kruid. 



Polish .... Zarzycka. 

 Stvedish... Neglikerot. 



Description. — The root is perennial, woody, and fibrous. 

 The stem is erect, branched toward the top, somewhat angular, 

 hairy, reddish at the base, and attains the heiglit of nearly two 

 feet. The radical leaves are on long channelled footstalks, 

 winged with several unequal serrated leaflets, the terminal one 

 very large, rounded, toothed, and generally three-lobed ; the 

 cauline ones are alternate, three-lobed, or trifid, nearly sessile, 

 and have two incised stipules at the base ; the whole are hairy and 

 of a deep green colour. The flowers are terminal, pedunculat- 

 ed, and somewhat drooping. The calyx is half divided into ten 

 pointed segments, the five alternate ones smaller than the rest. 

 The five petals are entire, sprieading, unguicidate, neai-ly round, 

 and of a bright yellow colour. The stamens are mmierous; the 



