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NUTTALLIA prerrata. 
Finger-leaved Nuttalhia. 
MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA.—Nat. Orv. MALVACEL.. 
Gen. Cuar.—Calyx simplex, quinquefidus. Capsule plurime seal ce 
in annulo congeste.(—Nvutt. under Callirrhoe.) 
Nuttallia digitata ; glauca, foliis subpeltatis profunde 6—7 -partitis, seg- 
mentis linearibus integris vel iterum bipartitis, supremis — 
bus, pedunculis longissimis axillaribus unifloris. — 
N. digitata, Dicxs. MSS. 
Callirrhoe digitata, NuTTa1, in Journ. of Acad, N. Sc. of Philadelphia, v. ii. 
p- 181. 
Root tuberous, somewhat fusiform, perennial. Whole plant slightly glaucous. 
Stem herbaceous, 3 or 4 feet high, branched, terete, glabrous. Leaves 
distant, upon very long footstalks,-subpeltate, cut into 6-7 very deep, 
linear, grooved, simple, or again bipartite, spreading segments, entire 
at the margin: upper ones smaller, and with fewer divisions. 
Peduncles exceedingly long, from the axils of the upper leaves, Silane, 
single-flowered. Flowers large, handsome, concave. Calyx quinquefid, 
_ the segments acute, moderately spreading. Petals five, broadly obovato- 
cuneate, reddish-purple (carmine-red, Nurt.) scarcely unguiculate, 
crenate at the margins. Stamens numerous, united for nearly their 
_whole length into a pyramidal white tube. Anthers reddish, reniform, 
1-celled, opening vertically. Puzstil: germen depressed, tapering into a 
columnar style and numerous filiform stigmas. “ Capsules 1-seeded, and 
roughened with depressed punctures, not spontaneously opening, and as 
in Malva and Althea, disposed in a ring.” —Nuti. 
Discovered by Mr NutTaut, in bushy places in the open 
prairies near Fort Smith in the Arkansa territory, and raised 
from seed in the garden of the University at Philadelphia by 
Mr Dicx, who was particularly anxious that the name of 
‘uttallia should be assigned to it. Mr Nurraxy himself 
ealled it Callrrhoe ; but we are no less desirous than Mr 
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