44g 
MONADELPHiA decandria. Geranium. 
species is known in some parts of the mountains by 
the name of Alum-root , on account of the astringent 
taste of its roots, which are very successfully employed 
in curing the flux among children, which is a disease 
very prevalent in those countries. 
2. G. diffusum, pubescens ; foliis oppositis 5-lobis, lobis tarolinianum. 
trifido-incisis, pedunculis bifloris subfasciculatis, pe- 
talis emarginatis longitudine calycis aristati, arillis vil- 
losis. — Willd. sp. pL 3. p. 71 1. 
G. lanuginosum. Jacq. hort. schoeni. 2. t . 140. 
Icon. Cavan, diss. 4. t. 84./. 1. & t. 124. /. 2. DHL 
elth. t . 135./. 162. 
In fields : Virginia to Georgia. $ . June, July. v. v . 
Flowers small, white, with red veins. 
3. G. diffusum, pubescens j foliis oppositis 5-partitis, lobis dissectum • 
3-fidis incisis linearibus, pedunculis bifloris elongatis, 
petalis emarginatis longitudine calycis aristati, arillis 
pilosis, pilis glandulosis .-—Willd. sp. pl. 3. p. 712. 
Icon. Cavan, diss. 4. t. 78. /. 2. 
Infields: New York. ©. June, July. v. v. Flowers 
rose-coloured, larger than the foregoing one. 
4. G. diffusum, hirsutum ; foliis oppositis ternatis quina- rohertianum , 
tisque trifido-pinnatifidis, pedunculis bifloris, petalis 
integris calyce aristato duplo longioribus, arillis reti- 
culatis. — Willd. sp. pl. 3.p. 714. 
Icon. FI. dan. 6g4. Cavan, diss. 4. t. 86. f. 1 . 
In shady moist places, on rocks : New York to Virgi- 
giniaj rare. June — Aug. v. v. Flowers pale 
red. It is singular, that the American plant has not 
that heavy scent the European is so well known by, 
though its other characters agree exactly. 
HI. POL Y ANDRIA. 
547. HALESrA. Gen.pl. 814. 
1. H. foliis ovatis acuminatis argute serratis, floribus dode- ietraptera . 
candris, fructu subaequaliter rhemboideo-tetraptero,— 
Willd. sp. pl. 2. p. 849. 
Icon. Bot. mag.giO. Cavan, diss. 6. t. 186. Catesh, 
car. 1. t. 64. 
