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NUTTALLIA pierrata. 
Finger-leaved Nuttallia, 
MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA.—Nart. Orv. MALVACER. 
Gen. Cuar.—Calyz simplex, quinquefidus. Capsule plurime monosperma 
in annulo —_— UTT. under sommes 
Nuttallia digitata ; glauca, foliis ssigall profunde 6-T-partitis, seg- 
~ mentis linearibus integris vel iterum bipartitis, supremis simpliciori- 
bus, pedunculis longissimis axillaribus unifloris. 
N. digitata, Dicks. MSS. 
Callirrhoe digitata, NuTTaut, in Journ. of Acad. N. Sc. of Philadelphia, v- ii. 
p- 181. 
Root tuberous, somewhat fusiform, perennial. Whole plant slightly glaucous. 
Stem herbaceous, 3 or 4 feet high, branched, terete, glabrous. Leaves 
distant, upon very long footstalks, subpeltate, cut into 6-7 very deep, 
linear, grooved, simple, or again bipartite, spreading segments, entire 
at the margin: upper ones smaller, and with fewer divisions. 
Peduncles exceedingly long, from the axils of the upper leaves, solitary; 
single-flowered. Flowers large, handsome, concave. ‘Calyx quinquefid, 
the segments acute, moderately spreading. Petals five, broadly obovato- 
cuneate, reddish-purple (carmine-red, Nutt.) scarcely unguiculate, 
crenate at the margins. Stamens numerous, united for nearly their 
whole length into a pyramidal white tube. Anthers reddish, reniform, 
1-celled, opening vertically. Pistil: germen depressed, tapering into a 
columnar style and numerous filiform stigmas. “ Capsules 1-seeded, and 
roughened with depressed punctures, not spontaneously opening, and as 
in Malva and Althea, disposed in a ring.”—Nutt. 
Discovered by Mr NuTTAatt, in bushy places in the open 
prairies near Fort Smith in the Arkansa territory, and raised 
from seed in the garden of the University at Philadelphia by 
Mr Dick, who was particularly anxious that the name of 
Nuttallia should be assigned to it. Mr Nutra. himself 
called it Callirrhoe; but we are no less desirous than Mr 
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