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HO AREA sisymbriifolia. 
TVater-Rochet-leaved Hoarea. 
H. sisymhriifolia, acaulis, foliis oblongis ternatis pinna- 
tifido-laciniatisque subhirsutis : foliolis segmentisque 
oblongo-lanceolatis acutis subdentato-incisis, stipulis 
lanceolatis acutis ciliatis, scapo ramoso pedunculisque 
villoso-pilosis, umbellis multifloris, tubo nectarifero 
calyce duplo longiore. 
Hoarea sisymbriifolia. Swt. hort. hrit. p. 76. n. 65. 
Root tuberous, branching into other small tubers. 
Stem none. Leaves radical, rather succulent, of a dark 
glossy green, ternate, pinnatifid or laciniate, slightly hairy : 
leaflets and segments oblong, oblongly lanceolate, or some- 
times narrowly lanceolate, acute, deeply toothed or incised, 
or sometimes entire, the margins slightly fringed. Petioles 
slender, flattened on the upper side and convex on the 
lower, more or less clothed with unequal spreading hairs. 
Stipules lanceolate, acute, hairy and fringed, the points 
tipped with long bristle like hairs. Scapes branching, and 
producing several umbels of flowers, thickly clothed with 
unequal spreading villous hairs, as are the peduncles, and 
producing a leaf or two at the joint. Peduncles cylin- 
drical, producing many-flowered umbels. Involucre of 
numerous linear or linearly lanceolate, acute, fringed 
bractes, that are also tipped with bristly points. Ccdyx 
5-cleft, segments oblongly lanceolate, hairy, ciliate and 
bristle-pointed, the upper one broadest, erect, the others 
spreading, or slightly reflexed. Nectariferous tube sessile, 
or nearly so, about twice the length of the calyx, flattened 
on both sides, and clothed with short unequal hairs, that 
are tipped with a small pellucid gland. Petals 5, spread- 
ing, of a bright scarlet, clouded with a dark velvetty purple 
