FOLYANDRIA DI — PENTAGYNIA. 
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Root perennial. Stem 1 2—1 8 inches high, lower leaves on long three 
cleft footstalks, ternate and biternate, leaflets lobed and crenate, glaucous 
particularly underneath. Petals 5, deciduous. Nectaries 5 between the 
petals, extending into hollow straight spurs, callous at the point. Necta- 
ries and Petals scarlet tinged with yellow. Stamens numerous, disposed 
into 5 or 10 parcels. Germs downy, with long slender styles. Capsules 
many seeded. . 
Grows in the upper and mountainous districts of Carolina and Georgia, 
Flowers April — May.. 
ASCYRUM. 
Calyx 4-pliylius, 2- 
interioribus xnajon- 
buSi Petala 4 . Fi- 
lamenta in 4-phaIau- 
ges, cligesta. Capsu- 
la oblonga, l-locula- 
ris, 2-valvis, eaiyce 
inclusa. 
1. PUMILDM. 
A. pusiilum, pros- 
,tratum, ramosissi- 
mum; foliis lmeari-o- 
valibus, obtusis ; pe- 
dunculis iongis refiex- 
is; floribus moaogy- 
nis. 
Gen. Pl. 1225. 
Calyx 4-leaved, the 
2-interior larger. Pe- 
tals 4 . Filaments 
collected in 4-pha- 
lanxes. Capsule ob- 
long, 1 -celled, 2-val- 
ved, included in the 
cal'^X. 
8 v 
Small, prostrate, 
much divided; leaves 
iinear-oval, obtuse ; 
peduncles long, reflec- 
ted; flowers monogy- 
nous. 
Mich 2. p. 77 ■ Pursli. 2. p. 373. 
Stem prostrate, somewhat woody, slightly winged, 6 — 10 inches long, 
Leaves opposite, sessile, very narrow, dotted, perennial. Flowers solita-t 
ry, axillary, and in the division of the stem. Peduncles 1-2 inch to an 
inch long, reflected, with two stipules near the base. Large, leaves of the 
calyx ovate, somewhat acute, and like the leaves marked with pellucid 
dots. Petals obovate, yellow, a little longer than the calyx. Stamens 
numerous, united at the base of the germ, the division into sections not 
distinct. Style 1, shorter than the germ. Capsule ovate. Seeds attach- 
ed to the margins of the valves. 
This appears to be the A. pauciflorum of Nuttalh I have always con- 
sidered it the A. pumilum of Michaux, but it is possible that the real plant 
of Michaus may have escaped my notice. 
