ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA 301 



y ultra — Agrimony, Gallice — Aigremoine. Germa?iice — Odcrmcnnig. 



Root perennial. Stem 2 to 3 feet high, simple, hairy, sometimes very hirsute. 

 Leaves 4 or 5 to 9 inches long, interruptedly pseudo-pinnate, with a terminal leaflet ; 

 principal leaflets 2 to 3 or 4 inches long, and 3 fourths of an inch to near 2 inches 

 wide, mostly 5 or 7 in number, smoothish above, pilose on the nerves beneath, 

 sessile, except the terminal one ; common petiole hairy, with large coarsely serrate 

 or lobed stipules at base ; intermediate leaflets much smaller, more or less ovate, 

 sessile, often 3-cleft, opposite or alternate, sometimes 2 or 3 pairs between the 

 principal leaflets. Spike 3 to 6 or 8 inches long, slender, often branched. Flowers 

 alternate, on short pedicels with each a trifid bract at base. Calyx with a small 2- 

 leavod involucre, or calycle, at base ; tube ribbed, or striate, smoothish, the sum- 

 mit invested with hooked bristles at tbe base of the segments; segments lance- 

 oblong. Petals yellow, ov<tl, trtxrot twice as long as the calyx. Styles shorter than 

 the stamens. Akenes t or dry indehiscent capsules, 2, in the bottom of the indurated 

 persistent calyx. 



Hab. Borders of woods; fence-rows, &c. frequent. Fl. July. Fr. Sept* 



Obs. There is a variety of this (var. hirsuta y Torr.) which is very hairy, — with 

 the leaflets narrower, and more numerous. It is not uncommon, here. Two or 

 three additional species have been enumerated in the U. States; but they require 

 to be better authenticated. 



Order 3. Polygynia. 



Ovaries superior, a. Frnit dry. 



238. GEUM. L. JVutt. Gen. 448. 

 [Greek, geuo ) to taste well; alluding to the flavor of one of the species.] 



L'alyx concave ; limb 5-cleft, with 5 small external bracts opposite the 

 clefts. Petals 5. Carpels in a head, awned by the persistent styles ; 

 styles, after flowering, geniculate or recurved at summit; stigmas 

 filiform, recurved at base and articulated with the styles, caducous, 

 leaving the summit of the styles uncinate. 



Herbaceous : leaves alternate, mostly pinnately dissected, stipular, with the 

 stipules adnate to the petiole ; peduncles terminal, or axillary. Nat. Ord. 73. 

 Lindl. RoeACE.fi. 



# Calyx re flexed. 



1. G- TiRGiKiAxujr, L. Radical leaves trifoliate, or pseudo-pinnate, 

 lower stem-leaves trifoliate, the upper ones simple, lanceolate ; stipules 

 subovate, entire, or incised ; peduncles diverging ; flowers erect ; petals 

 cuneate-obovate ; styles glabrous ; stigmas subclavate, pilose at base 

 Beck y Bot.p. 101. 



Also? G. geniculatum. Mx. Am. 1. p. 300. Pers. Syn. 2. p. 57 

 Muhl. Catal. p. 51. Pursh, Am. 1. 351. Jfutt. Gen. 1. 6,309* 

 Beck y I. c. Eat. Man. p. 157. 



Also? G. Album. Muhl. 1. c. Pursh y I. c. Nutt. I. c. Bart. Phil 

 1. 235. Ell. Sk. l.p. 572. Bigel. Bost.p. 207. Torr. Fl.X.p 493 

 Ejusd. Comp. p. 209. DC. Prodr. 2. p. 550. Floral. Cestr. p. 65* 

 Lindl. Kncxj. p. 45 1. Beck, I. c. Eat. I. c. 



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