66 COMMON CANADIAN WILD PLANTS. 



7. .i;i >i. L. AVENS. 



1. G. album, Gmelin. (WHITE AVENS.) Stem 2 feet high, 

 slender, branching, smoothish or downy. Hoot-leaves pin- 

 nate, the cauline ones 3-divided, lobed, or only toothed. 

 Petals white, as long as the calyx. Achenes bristly, tipped 

 with the hooked lower joint of the style, the upper joint 

 falling away. Receptacle of the fruit bristly. Low rich 

 woods and thickets. 



2. G. Virginia'num, L. Stem stout, bristly - hairy. 

 Leaves nearly as in No. 1. Petals white, shorter than the 

 calyx. Receptacle of the fruit nearly smooth. Meadows and 

 thickets ; not common. 



'3. G. maerophyl'lum.Willd. Bristly-hairy, stout. Root- 

 leaves interruptedly pinnate, with a very large round-heart- 

 shaped terminal leaflet. Stem-leaves with 2-4 minute lateral 

 leaflets, the terminal 3-cleft, with wedge-form rounded lobes. 

 Petals yellow, longer than the calyx. Receptacle nearly 

 naked. Atl. Prov. chiefly. 



4. G. Strietum, Ait. (YELLOW A.) Stem 2-3 feet high, 

 rather hairy. Root-leaves interruptedly pinnate ; stem- 

 leaves 3-5-foliolate, leaflets obovate or ovate. Petals yellow, 

 longer than the calyx. Receptacle of the fruit downy. 

 Achenes tipped with the hooked style. Dry thickets. 



5. G. riva'le, L. (WATER or PURPLE AVENS.) Petals pur- 

 plish-yellow ; calyx brown-purple. Flowers nodding, but the 

 fruiting heads upright. The upper jo int of t he style feat hery, 

 persistent. Stem simple, 2 feet high. Root-leaves lyrate ; 

 stem-leaves few, 3-foliolate, lobed. Bogs and wet places. 



6. G. triflO'rum, Pursh. Stem about a foot high, soft- 

 hairy. Flowers 3 or more, on long peduncles, purple. 

 Styles not jointed, feathery, at least 2 inches long in the fruit. 

 Dry hills and thickets. Not common. 



8. WALDSTEI'NIA, Willd. BARREN STRAWBERRY. 

 W. fragarioi'des, Tratt. A low plant, 4-6 inches high. 

 Leaflets 3, broadly wedge-form, crenately toothed. Scapes 

 several-flowered. Petals yellow, longer than the calyx. 

 Dry woods and hill-sides. 



