J5J: FLORA OF TEXAS. 



yellow, white, or purple.—Perennial herhs, with pinnately 

 divided leaves. 



G. ALBUM, Gmelin. Smoothish or downy ; s^6'w slender, 

 and spreading branches; radical leaves pinnate, or the 

 earliest ones nearly simple and rounded; ^tevcv-leaves 

 3-parted, lobed or toothed; jjetals white, as long as the 

 calyx; s^yZe jointed, and bent near the middle, the smooth 

 lower portion persistent and hooked; receptacle and 

 ovaries bristly-hairy. Stem 2° high. 



G. VERNUM. Stem 6-10' high, weak, dichotomons and 

 few-flowered at the summit ; pedicels elongated in fruit ; 

 m7?/2;-segments triangular-ovate; stipe nearly the length of 

 the head of carpels; radicla leaves either roundish-cordate 

 and slightly 3-5-lobed, or pinnate, with the leaflets vari- 

 ously incised and lobed; the cauline mostly 3-5-foliolate 

 or lobed, serrate-toothed, ciliate, the uppermost leaflets 

 lanceolate ; carpels scabrous, in globose heads ; receptacle 

 glabrous. — Gray and Torrey. 



WALDSTEINIA, Willd. 



Calyx obconical, 5-cleft, with as many alternate bracts ; 

 petals 5 ; stamens numerous, inserted into the throat of 

 the calyx ; achenia 2-6, dry or somewhat fleshy ; style ter- 

 minal, filiform, separating from the acheniiim by a joint ; 

 seeds erect. — 'Low perennial herbs, with chiefly radical and 

 roundish lobed leaves, and yellow floioers on scape-like 

 stems. 



W. LOBATA, Torr. and Gray. Hairy; leaves cordate, 

 crenately 3-5-lobed ; scapte filiform, bracted, 4-8-flowered ; 

 achenia mostly 2, hoary ; petals rather shorter than the 

 calyx. Scape and leaves 4-8' high. 



KUBUS, L. Brier ; Bramble. 

 Calyx concave or flattish, 5-parted, without bracts; 



