FOLYANDRIA POLYGYRIA, 
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eeo multifidis ; petalis 
obovatis calyce ma- 
joribus, seminibus 
glabris. De Candolle 
1. p. 235. 
many cleft ; petals ob- 
ovate, larger than the 
calyx; seeds glabrous. 
Sp. pi. 2. p. 1333. Pursh, 2. p. S95. 
Root perennial. Stem flexible, floating, branching. Leaves alternate, 
very finely dissected. Flowers on axillary peduncles 1- — 2 inches long. 
Grows in tranquil streams in the upper Districts of Carolina. Pursh. 
It does not occur in the low country. 
Flowers June — August. 
** Floribus luteis; ** Flowers yellow; 
Joliis integris dentatis- leaves entire or tooth- 
ve, radice Jibrosa. ed; root Jibrous. 
3. Pusillus. Pursh. 
R. glaber; foliis 
omnibus petiolatis, 
denticulatis, inferior- 
ibus subcordato-ova- 
tis, superioribus line- 
ari-lanceolatis, supre- 
mis linearibus ; pe- 
dunculis oppositifoliis, 
solitariis, unifloris; 
petalis calycis longi- 
tudine. 
Pursh, 2. p. 392. De Candolle 1. p. 249* 
R. flammula? Walt. p. 159. 
Root fibrous, perennial ? Stem herbaceous, generally decumbent, spa 
ringly branched, 6 — 12 inches high. Leaves on petioles (the lower 2 — 3 
inches long) very obtuse and sometimes slightly cordate at base. Flow- 
ers very small at the summit of the small branches. Leaves of the calyx 
ovate, obtuse, deciduous. Petals scarcely larger than the calyx, about 1- 
iine long, nearly round, yellow, the pore near the base of the petal not on 
the claw. Stamens 7 — 8, shorter than the calyx. Germs numerouts.ag- 
TOL. II. H 
Glabrous ; leaves 
all petiolate, denticu- 
late, the lower orate, 
slightly cordate, the 
upper lanceolate, 
and linear ; peduncles 
opposite the leaves, 
solitary, one flowered; 
petals as long as the 
calyx. 
