Bea le all 
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thickened at the end, and forming an exterior cup-shaped calcy culus ; 
sepals ovate- ‘lanceolate, cuspidate, strongly 3-nerved, glandular spinu- 
lose-scabrous on the margins, longer than the globose capsule; petals 
sulphur-yellow.—Cation City, Br andegee ; Greene. 
GERANTIACE X. 
GERANIUM RICHARDSONII, F. and M. (4. nid Seong Hook.) Stem 
erect, 14°-3° high, dichotom mous ly bread ching, glabrous below, branches 
slender ; leaves” dee eply 5-parted, ae sharply jnndacd sparsely pube- 
scent; pe etioles smooth; radical ones on long petioles, uppermost opposite, 
on short petioles, rather ph arabe pedicels and sepals glandular-pilose; 
petals entire, white or pale rose- color, hirsute at base; filaments pilose 
at base, equaling the pilose styles, which are connate one-third their 
length; capsule gee pilose. —Growing g in damp, shaded _ age 
water-courses in the intains, frequent. “Taller but less robus all 
its parts and less hair. 7 Bai the following, from whieh in aunt aes it 
nde- 
can gs be distinguished.—Hall & Harbour, 88; Porter ; Bra 
gee; Co 
ANIUM FrRemontH, Torr. Plant. Fendl., p.26. Perennial, stems 
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numerous, diffusely branching, 6/-1° i n height, more or less pubescent 
throughout, with a short, close, glandular pubescence sparsely intermixed 
with lon ger, pilose hairs; hat leaves deeply 5-5-cleft, truncate at base. 
or the lowest cordate with a broad sinus, radical ones 7-cleft, segments 
3-lobed or incised, mucronate-acute ; peduncles 1/3’ long, bearin ng two 
flowers on icels 1’-2’ long; als short-awned; fruiting pedicels 
more or less divaricate and declined ; petals obovate, emarginate, light 
or deep purple, villose at the base, sparingly villose-bearded on the veius; 
filaments pilose-ciliate, equaling the naked styles which are connate be- 
low; seeds delicately reticulated; stems numerous and spreading, divari- 
eately branched above, growing. in dense tufts, with large purple flow- 
ers 1’ in diameter.—Ver conan on dry, open hill-sides, on the plains 
and in the mountains. Dr. Smith; B. H. Smith; Porter; Coulter. The 
degree of pubescence is mie some et being nearly ogee 
OXALIS VIOLACEA, L.—Glen Eyrie. 
Por siie 
a stricta, L.—In the lower foot- i "Dr: Smith 5 Br sn i ; 
Cou 
ZYGOPHYLLACE:' 
Kitreredets MAxm™A, T. & G. (Tribulus maximus, L.) Stems 
diffusely procumbent, 10-20 long leaves opposite, abr uptly pinnate ; 
leaflets in three, or, rarely, four pairs, oblong or var prince slightly 
faleate, pubescent beneath, pte ng ones lar ; peduncles 1’ long, : 
Solitary, axillary, 1- flowered ; flowers yellow ; se vals marcescent ; cocci 
gibbous below, tuberculate. SL premont County, Brandegee. 
—ExGor HYLLACE, Br. Flowers perfect, regular, sepals 4-6. Rativation 
usually convotute. Petals 4-6, alternate with the sepals, abn at =", — 
like; at length equal to the sepals. Stamens twice as 
ments distinct, dilated at base, sometimes placed on the back ges 7s doa ‘at here 
near the middle, introrse. Ovary of 4—5 united ¢ anpels opposite rhe org. 
with five : late or glands at base, or surrounded ra a sinuate Ovules or 
he inne the 1, cunlas i ae erect. Styles Kee 
wee ons . oon ¢h is So ay oh : hich some: oa oe =— into ten 
1-seeded cocci without transverse pattitions.—-Herbs, shirts oF res. Leavy — 
stipalate, n not ; dotted, rarely simple. 
Scop. 5-6, jo ‘lanceolate or reba Petals 5, 
obovate. Filaments No-12, Reval 5-6 pe 16-12-celled, « —- vuled.- Berries 
from the persistent. styliferous axis, 1 en iscent. Style ; 
_ 10-furrowed. Stigma capitate, 104ribbed. - 
