MONADELPHiA DECANDRiA. Geranium. 
449 
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 Larolmianum, 
trifido«incisis, pedunculis bifloris subfasciculatis, pe- 
talis emarginatis longitudine calycis aristati, arillis vil- 
losis. — JVilld. sp. pi. 3. p. 71 1. 
G. lanuginosum. Jacq. hort. schoenh, 2. t. 140. 
Icon. Cavan, diss. 4. t, 84. f. 1. ^ t. 124. f. 2. Dill, 
elth. t. 135./. 162. 
Infields: Virginia to Georgia. June, July. v.v» 
Flowers small, white, with red veins. 
3. G. diffusum, pubescens ; foliis oppositis 5-partitis, lobis dissectum* 
3-fidis incisis linearibus, pedunculis bifloris elongatis, 
petalis emarginatis longitudine calycis aristati, arillis 
pilosis, pilis glandulosis. — Willd. sp. pi. 3. p. 7 12 . 
Icon. Cavan, diss. 4. t. ys.f. 2. 
in fields : New York. Q* June, July. v.v. Flowers 
rose-coloured, larger than the foregoing one. 
4. G. diffusum, hirsutura j foliis oppositis ternatis qmn 2 i-TTolertianum, 
tisque trifido-pinnatifidis, pedunculis bifloris, petalis 
integris calyce aristato duplo longioribus, arillis reti- 
culatis. — Willd. sp. pl.o.p.y\4. 
Icon. FI. dan. 694. Cavan, diss. 4. t. 80. f. 1 . 
In shady moist places, on rocks : New York to Virgi- 
ginia j 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. 
III. PO LYANDRIA. 
547. HALESIA. Gen. pi. 814. 
1. H. foliis ovatis acuminatis argute serratis, floribtis dode- tetraptera. 
candris, fructu subaequaliter rhomboideo-tetraptero. — 
Willd. sp. pi. 2. p. 84C). 
Icon. Bot. mag.giO. Cavan, diss. 6. i. \8Q. Catesl. 
car. 1. t. 04. 
