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NUTTALLIA digitata. 
Finger-leaved Nuttallia. 
MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA.— Nat. Ord. MALVACEJE. 
Gen. Char. — Calyx simplex, quinquefidus. Capsuloe plurimae monospermae 
in annulo congestae.( — Nutt. under Callirrhoe.) 
Nuttallia digitata ; glauca, foliis subpeltatis profunde 6*-7-partitis, seg- 
mentis linearibus integris vel iterum bipartitis, supremis simpliciori.. 
bus, pedunculis longissimis axillaribus unifloris. 
N. digitata, Dicks. MSS. 
Callirrhoe digitata, Nuttall, in Jmrn. of Acad, N. Sc. of Philadelphia, v. ii. 
p. 181. 
Root tuberous, somewhat fusiform, perennial. Whole plant slightly glaucous. 
Stem herbaceous, 3 or 4 feet high, branched, terete, glabrous. Leaves 
distant, upon very long footstalks, subpeltate, cut into 6-7 very deep, 
linear, grooved, simple, or again bipartite, spreading segments, entire 
at the margin : upper ones smaller, and with fewer divisions. 
Peduncles exceedingly long, from the axils of the upper leaves, solitary, 
single-flowered. Flowers large, handsome, concave. Calyx quinquefid, 
the segments acute, moderately spreading. Petals five, broadly obovato- 
cuneate, reddish-purple (carmine-red, Nutt.) scarcely unguiculate, 
crenate at the margins. Stametis numerous, united for nearly their 
whole length into a pyramidal white tube. Anthers reddish, reniform, 
l*celled, opening vertically. Pistil: germen depressed, tapering into a 
columnar style and numerous filiform stigmas. " Capsules 1-seeded, and 
roughened with depressed punctures, not spontaneously opening, and as 
in Malva and Althcea, disposed in a ring." — Nutt. 
Discovered by Mr Nuttall, in bushy places in the open 
prairies near Fort Smith in the Arkansa territory, and raised 
from seed in the garden of the University at Philadelphia by 
Mr Dick, who was particularly anxious that the name of 
Nuttallia should be assigned to it. Mr Nuttall himself 
called it Callirrhoe; but we are no less desirous than Mr 
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