DIGITATED CAROLINE A. 
The leaves of the Digitated Carol inea are 
alternate, petioled, and digitate; the leaflets, 
which are three, or five, are broad-lanceolate, 
subpetioled, and quite entire; and there are 
two short caducous stipules. The flowers, 
which are solitary, axillary, and sessile, are 
very large and beautiful : the petals are yellow, 
the filaments red, and the anthers purple. The 
fruit has the appearance of that of the Cocoa 
Nut, or of Cucumber : it is torulose and 
obovate ; with seeds like Almonds, the coty- 
ledons plaited. These are eatable ; but, when 
taken raw, in any quantity, they are ex- 
perienced to be very flatulent. 
This plant was first introduced by Mr. 
Alexander Anderson, in the y r ear 1787. It may 
be propagated by seeds, or by cuttings, in a 
light loamy soil, plunged in the bark-stove, and 
moderately watered during the summer season, 
but sparingly in winter. In it's native state, 
it chiefly grows in such moist or marshy situa- 
tions as are liable to be overflowed by the spray 
of the sea. 
