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ICOSANDRIA. POLYGYNIA. Dryas. 
Var. 2. FI. mag. Large-flowered. Huds. ( G. intermedium. Ehrh. With. 
Ed. 6. G. urbanum (3. Sm. Somewhat larger in the petals,, and more 
tawny, than the common appearance. Suspected to be a hybrid between 
G. urbanum and the following species; though Messrs. Curtis and Rob¬ 
son report it to be unaltered by garden culture. E.) 
Fuchs. 385— Trag. 37. 
Tedford Wood in the Welds, Lincolnshire; and in Cambridgeshire. Ray. 
(In a low shady grove, by the river, at Matlock Bath. Sir J. E. Smith. 
Banks of the Esk, above Newbattle. Dr. Graham. Grev. Edin. Near 
St. Helen’s Well, and other spots, near Darlington. Mr. Robson. In 
woods at Fryar’s Goose on the Tyne. Mr. Winch. E.) 
G. riva'le. Flowers pendulous: awns feathered, twisted: petals 
blunt, roundish wedge-shaped : radical leaves winged, somewhat 
lyrate. 
E. Bot. 106— FI. Dan. 722 — Knipli. 1 — Lob. 2c. i. 694 — Clus. ii. 203. 1— 
Ger. Em. 995. 4>—Pet. 40. 3— H. Ox. iv. 26. 7—J. B. ii. 398. n. 2. 
Upper-leaves with three or four lobes. Leaf-scales undivided, or jagged. 
Fruit-stalks purplish, becoming less bent when the seeds ripen. Calyx 
oblong, flat at the base, greenish purple, cloven half way down. Blos¬ 
soms streaked, of a dilute tawny red. ( Root horizontal, rather woody. 
Stem a foot high, upright, branches at the top nutant. Root-leaves 
plaited, cut, serrated, hairy. E.) 
Var. 2. Flore pleno. Flowers double; sometimes proliferous; (so found 
near Castle Eden by Mr. Winch. This is certainly “ no hybrid,” says 
Sir J. E. Smith, who states that by transplanting the wild roots into a dry 
gravelly soil, the flowers become red, as well as double and proliferous, 
with many strange changes of leaves into petals, and the contrary. E.) 
Water Avens. (Welsh: Mabgoll glan y dwr. E.) Mountainous pas¬ 
tures and woods not unfrequent in the north of England, in Scotland, and 
Wales. P. June—July.*' 
DRY'AS.f Cal, five or ten-cleft: 'Petals five or eight: Seeds 
with tails, formed by the feathered style: Receptacle 
broad and flat. 
D. octope'tala. Petals eight: leaves simple, (serrated, downy be¬ 
neath. E.) 
(E. Bot. 451. E.)— Penn. Hebr. 33. at p. 285— FI. Dan. 31 — Clus. l. 351. 2 
— Ger. Em. 659. 6 — Ger. 533. 4 — Lob. Adv. 209, Ic. i. 495. 1— Gisec. iii. 
66—Lob. Obs. 260. 2, Ic. 495. 2—Park. 106. 1. 
( Root woody. Stems short, scaly, with the shrivelled bases of old leaves, 
decumbent, intangled, woody ; branches leafy, upright. Leaves on leaf¬ 
stalks, at the edges revolute, evergreen, about an inch long, serrated, 
egg-shaped, smooth and shining above, cottony, with a reddish rib be¬ 
neath. Fruit-stalks solitary, upright, very long, woolly, towards the 
end rough with glands. Calyx glandulous, hairy, with eight segments, 
nearly equal. Flowers large, white, solitary. E.) 
* The powdered root will cure tertian agues, and is daily used for that purpose by the 
Canadians. Sheep and goats eat it. Cows, horses, and swine are not fond of it. Linn. 
It is made use of to cure ropy malt liquor. St. 
i (So called by Linnseus from the Dryades, to whom (he Oak/App, is sacred ; the 
eaves bearing some resemblance to those of that tree. E.) 
