IC08ANDRIA, PENTAGYN1 \. £35 



2. G. pubescent: radical leaves pinnate, stem-aibt.ru. 

 leaves tomato, upper ones simple and triiid, 



lower stipules incised, flowers erect, petals 

 length of the calix. — WUUL enum. and Purth. 



(.. Canadense, Jacq. 



(;, Carolinianum, Walt. 



White /iennet. 



9ane I M Mo. 1, which it resembles. Crows in similar 

 places; also common. Perennial. July, August 



3. G. very hirsute: leaves all pinnate, folioles ' <"> ■'' 

 subequal, cut-dentate, stipules ovate, subentire; 

 flowers erect, calicine segments subequal ; pe- 

 tals oval, the length of the calix. — Pursh. 



(i. agrimonoides, Pursh, 



(t. hirsutum, Muhl.? 



(i. lacitiiatum, Murr. in Com. Goett. ? 



I have found a large species of ficum on the banks of the 

 Delaware, lenej side, about three miles below Philadelphia, 

 which appears to fit the above description. It is very hirsute, 

 but the flowers are yellow. For the present I have referred 

 it as above. Perennial. July. 



235. POTEXTILLA. Gen.pl. 866. (liosacex.) 



Calix 10-cleft, inferior, spreading, 5 of the 

 segments' alternately smaller. Petals 0. 

 Seeds mostly rugose, roundish, naked, 

 attached to a small juiceless receptacle. — 



l. P. erect, branched, pubescent; stipules oral »■■<»■ 

 dentate ; leaves tomato, rhombic-lanceolate, cat- 

 dentate : branches dichotomous, pedicels short, 



axillary, solitary ; petals shorter than the calix. 

 WUUL and J'urs/t. 

 Icon. Fl. Dan. 171. 



