2IO OCTANDRIA TETRAGYNIA. 



The root is filiform and fcaly : the ftalk fingle, an- 

 gular, and four or five inches high : the radical 

 leaves are about four in number, branched into 

 doubly ternate divifions : the foliola fniooth and 

 divided generally into three lobes ^ their foot- 

 flalks channel'd : two fimply ternate leaves grow 

 oppofite to each other above the iTiiddle of the 

 flalk : the peduncle is quadrangular, naked, 

 and terminates the llalk, on the fummit of which 

 grows a cubical duller of five green fiowers, 

 with yellow antherge ; the uppermoft of which 

 flowers is quadrifid, the lateral ones quinquefid : 

 the berries are green, the calyx and corolla re- 

 maining on them. 



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