Folyandria polygyjxia. 
fil 
Root fibrous, perennial* Stem procumbent and erect, about two feet 
high, furrowed, and a little hairy. Leaves with the lateral segments un^ 
equal at the base, the middle one sometimes on a long petiole, all shining^ 
glabrous, with a few hairs along the under surface of the veins, petioles 
of the root leaves sometimes 1 foot long Flowers on peduncles 2 — 6 
inches long. Calyx a little hairy. Petals 7 — 8, bright yellow, glossy^ 
Veiny, with a square scale at base. Filaments 60 — 80 very short. Germs 
20 or more, collected in a globose he.ad. Seeds compressed, with a very 
distinct border, and the point recurved. 
This plant, the R. nitidus of Muhlenberg’s Catalogue, but not of 
Walter, is nearly allied to the R. repens, but differs from it by the want of 
runners, by its reflected calyx, by its petals that are simply obtuse, never 
obcordate nor even emarginate, by the recurved summit of its seed, and 
by its leaves, which if we judge by the figure of the R, repens in Smith’s 
English Botany, are larger, with the segments more distinctly separated^ 
more regularly lanceolate and more acutely serrate. 
Grows in wet grounds. Very common in the river swamps of Georgia* 
Flowers March and April. 
9. Palmatus P E. 
R. pilosus, pilis ad- 
ressis ; foliis omni- 
us petiolatis,radicali- 
bus palmato triparti- 
te, lobis dentatis; su- 
perioribus trifidis in- 
tegrisve ; seminibus 
marginatis acuraine 
recto. E. 
Hairy, with the 
hairs appressed; leaves 
all on footstalks, those 
of the root palmately 
3 parted, with the lo- 
bes toothed, the upper 
3-cleft or entire; seeds 
margined, with the 
point straight. 
Root fibrous. Stem 12 to 18 inches high, branching, hairy, and with 
the hair as in every part of the plant, closely appressed. Leaves obtuse 
at base, 3 parted with the lobes expanding and dentate, the upper leaves 
with 2 lateral teeth, when small, entire. Petioles of the root leaves 4— -5 
inches long. Flowers opposite the leaves, on long slender peduncles.— , 
The calyx and corolla I have not seen. Seed compressed, smooth, amf. 
like the seed of many of our species, with an incrassated margin. 
Grows in St. John’s Berkley, 
Flowers April — May. 
10. Carolinianus. 
R. caule erecto sub- 
ramoso, petiolisque 
Stem erect, branch- 
ing and with the petio- 
