Carpels beaked.
4. Napaea. Involucel none. Flowers dioecious. Stamens few (15--20).
Carpels beakless.
[*][*] Stigmas terminal, capitate; carpels 1--few-seeded, usually
dehiscent.
5. Malvastrum. Involucel of 3 bractlets or none. Seed solitary, filling
the cell, ascending.
6. Sida. Involucel none. Seed solitary in the cells, pendulous.
7. Sphaeralcea. Bractlets 3. Seeds 2 or 3 in each cell.
8. Abutilon. Involucel none. Seeds 3--9 in each cell.
9. Modiola. Bractlets 3. Seeds 2 in each cell, with a transverse
partition between them.
Tribe II. HIBISCEAE. Column of stamens anther-bearing for a considerable
part of its length, naked and 5-toothed at the very apex. Pod mostly
5-celled, loculicidal, leaving scarcely any axis in the centre after
opening.
10. Kosteletzkya. Involucel of several bractlets. Pod 5-celled,
5-seeded.
11. Hibiscus. Involucel of many bractlets. Pod 5-celled, many-seeded.
1. ALTHAEA, L. MARSH-MALLOW.
Calyx surrounded by a 6--9-cleft involucel. Otherwise as in Malva. (Old
Greek and Latin name, from [Greek: a)/ltho], _to cure_, in allusion to
its healing properties.)
A. OFFICINALIS, L. (MARSH-MALLOW.) Stem erect, 2--4 deg. high; leaves ovate
or slightly heart-shaped, toothed, sometimes 3-lobed, velvety-downy;
peduncles axillary, many-flowered; flowers pale rose-color.--Salt
marshes, coast of N. Eng. and N. Y. Aug., Sept.--Perennial root thick,
abounding in mucilage, the bases of the _Pates de Guimauve_. (Nat. from
Eu.)
2. MALVA, L. MALLOW.
Calyx with a 3-leaved involucel at the base, like an outer calyx. Petals
obcordate. Styles numerous, stigmatic down the inner side. Fruit
depressed, separating at maturity into as many 1-seeded and indehiscent
round kidney-shaped blunt carpels as there are styles. Radicle pointing
downward. (An old Latin name, from the Greek name, [Greek: mala/che],
having allusion to the emollient leaves.)
[*] _Flowers fascicled in the axils._
M. ROTUNDIFOLIA, L. (COMMON MALLOW.) _Stems procumbent_ from a deep
biennial root; _leaves_ round-heart-shaped, on very long petioles,
crenate, _obscurely-lobed_; petals twice the length of the calyx,
whitish; carpels pubescent, even.--Waysides and cultivated grounds;
common. (Nat. from Eu.)
M. SYLVESTRIS, L. (HIGH M.) Biennial; _stem erect, branched_ (2--3 deg.
high); _leaves sharply 5--7-lobed_; petals thrice the length of the
calyx, large, purple and rose-color; carpels wrinkled-veiny.--Waysides.
(Adv. from Eu.)
M. CRISPA, L. (CURLED M.) A _tall, erect_ annual, with round and angled
toothed and _crisped leaves_, and small _sessile flowers_ crowded in the
axils.--Sparingly escaped from old gardens. (Adv. from Eu.)
[*][*] _Flowers only in the upper axils, somewhat racemose or
paniculate._
M. MOSCHATA, L. (MUSK M.) A low perennial, with the _stem-leaves
5-parted, and the divisions once or twice parted or cleft_ into linear
lobes, faintly musky-scented, the _flowers rose-color_ or white (11/2' in
diameter) on short peduncles crowded on the stem and branches, the fruit
downy.--Escaped from gardens to waysides. (Adv. from Eu.)
M. ALCEA, L., with the _stem-leaves only once 5-parted or cleft_, the
lobes incised, large flowers like the last, but the fruit smooth, and
bractlets of the involucel ovate, has escaped from gardens. (Adv. from
Eu.)
3. CALLIRRHOE, Nutt.
Calyx either naked or with a 3-leaved involucel at its base. Petals
wedge-shaped and truncate (usually red-purple). Styles, etc., as in
Malva. Carpels 10--20, straightish, with a short empty beak, separated
within from the 1-seeded cell by a narrow projection, indehiscent or
partly 2-valved. Radicle pointing downward. (Name drawn from Greek
mythology.)
[*] _Involucel 3-leaved._
1. C. triangulata, Gray. Hairy-pubescent; stems nearly erect (2 deg. high)
from a tuberous root; leaves triangular or halberd-shaped, or the lowest
rather heart-shaped, coarsely crenate; the upper incised or 3--5-cleft;
flowers panicled, short-pedicelled (purple); involucel as long as the
5-cleft 5-nerved calyx; carpels not rugose.--Dry prairies, Ind. to
Minn., and southward.
2. C. involucrata, Gray. Hirsute or hispid, procumbent; leaves rounded,
5--7-parted or -cleft, the segments incisely lobed; peduncles elongated,
1-flowered; calyx 5-parted, the lanceolate 3--5-nerved sepals twice as
long as the involucel; petals red or purplish, carpels indehiscent,
rugose-reticulated.--Minn. to Tex.
[*][*] _Involucel none; calyx 5-parted; carpels strongly rugose._
3. C. alcaeoides, Gray. Strigose-pubescent; stems slender (1 deg. high),
erect from a perennial root; lower leaves triangular-heart-shaped,
incised, the upper 5--7-parted, laciniate, the uppermost divided into
linear segments; flowers (rose-color or white) corymbose, on slender
peduncles--Barren oak-lands, S. Ky. to Kan. and Neb.
4. C. digitata, Nutt. Sparsely hirsute or glabrous, erect; leaves few,
round-cordate, 5--7-parted, the cauline commonly with linear divisions;
peduncles subracemose, long, filiform; flowers red-purple to
white.--Kan. to Tex.
4. NAPAEA, Clayt. GLADE MALLOW.
Calyx naked at the base, 5-toothed. Petals entire. _Flowers dioecious_;
the staminate flowers destitute of pistils, with 15--20 anthers; the
fertile with a short column of filaments but usually no anthers. Styles
8--10, stigmatic along the inside. Fruit depressed-globular, separating
when ripe into as many kidney-shaped 1-seeded beakless and scarcely
dehiscent carpels as there are styles. Radicle pointing downward.--A
tall roughish perennial herb, with very large 9--11-parted lower leaves,
the pointed lobes pinnatifid-cut and toothed, and with small white
flowers in panicled clustered corymbs. (Named from [Greek: na/pe], a
glade or dell, or, poetically, a nymph of the glades.)
1. N. dioica, L. Stems nearly simple, 5--9 deg. high.--Penn. to Va., and
west to Iowa and Minn.; rare. July.
5. MALVASTRUM, Gray. FALSE MALLOW.
Calyx with an involucel of 2 or 3 bractlets, or none. Petals notched at
the end or entire. Styles 5 or more; stigmas capitate. Carpels as in
Malva, or else as in Sida, but the solitary kidney-shaped seed ascending
and the radicle pointing downward, as in the former. (Name altered from
_Malva_.)
1. M. angustum, Gray. Annual, slightly hairy, erect (6'--1 deg. high);
leaves lance-oblong or linear, with scattered fine callous teeth;
flowers in the upper axils, on peduncles shorter than the broadly
ovate-triangular sepals; bractlets and stipules setaceous; petals
yellow, scarcely exceeding the calyx; carpels 5, kidney-shaped, smooth,
at length 2-valved.--W. Tenn. to Iowa and Kan. Aug.
2. M. coccineum, Gray. Perennial, low and hoary; leaves 5-parted or
pedate, flowers in short spikes or racemes, the pink-red petals very
much longer than the calyx; carpels 10 or more, reticulated on the sides
and indehiscent.--Minn. to W. Tex., and westward.
6. SIDA, L.
Calyx naked at the base, 5-cleft. Petals entire, usually oblique. Styles
5 or more, tipped with capitate stigmas; the ripe fruit separating into
as many 1-seeded carpels, which are closed, or commonly 2-valved at the
top, and tardily separate from the axis. Seed pendulous. Embryo abruptly
bent; the radicle pointing upward. (A name used by Theophrastus.)
1. S. Napaea, Cav. A smooth, tall (4--10 deg. high) perennial; _leaves
3--7-cleft_, the lobes oblong and pointed, toothed; _flowers (white)
umbellate-corymbed_, 1' wide; carpels 10, pointed.--Rocky river-banks,
along the Alleghanies, Penn. to Va., rare. (Cultivated in old gardens.)
2. S. Elliottii, Torr. & Gray. A smooth, erect perennial (1--4 deg. high);
_leaves linear_, serrate, short-petioled; peduncles axillary,
1-flowered, short; _flowers (yellow)_ rather large; _carpels 9--10,
slightly and abruptly pointed_, forming a depressed fruit.--Sandy soil,
S. Va. and southward. May--Aug.
S. SPINOSA, L. Annual weed, minutely and softly pubescent, low (10--20'
high), much branched; _leaves ovate-lanceolate or oblong_, serrate,
rather long-petioled; peduncles axillary, 1-flowered, shorter than the
petiole; _flowers (yellow)_ small; _carpels 5_, combined into an ovate
fruit, _each splitting at the top into 2 beaks_.--A little tubercle at
the base of the leaves on the stronger plants gives the specific name,
but it cannot be called a spine.--Waste places, S. New York to Iowa, and
common southward. (Nat. from the tropics.)
7. SPHAERALCEA, St. Hil.
Ovules and seeds usually 2 or 3 in each cell. Characters otherwise as in
Malvastrum. (Name from [Greek: sphai~ra], _a sphere_, and [Greek:
a)lke/a], _a mallow_--from the commonly spherical fruit.)
1. S. acerifolia, Nutt. Perennial, erect, 2--6 deg. high, stellately
pubescent or glabrate; leaves maple-shaped, 3--7-cleft; flowers
clustered in the upper axils and subspicate, rose-color to
white.--Kankakee Co., Ill., _E. J. Hill_; Dak. and westward.
8. ABUTILON, Tourn. INDIAN MALLOW.
Carpels 2--9-seeded, at length 2-valved. Radicle ascending or pointing
inward. Otherwise as in Sida. (Name of unknown origin.)
A. AVICENNAE, Gaertn. (VELVET-LEAF.) Tall annual (4 deg. high); leaves
roundish-heart-shaped, taper-pointed, velvety; peduncles shorter than
the leaf-stalks; corolla yellow; carpels 12--15, hairy, beaked.--Waste
places, escaped from gardens. (Adv. from India.)
9. MODIOLA, Moench.
Calyx with a 3-leaved involucel. Petals obovate. Stamens 10--20. Stigmas
capitate. Carpels 14--20, kidney-shaped, pointed, and at length 2-valved
at the top; the cavity divided into two by a cross partition, with a
single seed in each cell.--Humble, procumbent or creeping annuals or
biennials, with cut leaves and small purplish flowers solitary in the
axils. (Name from _modiolus_, the broad and depressed fruit resembling
in shape the Roman measure of that name.)
1. M. multifida, Moench. Hairy; leaves 3--5-cleft and incised; stamens
15--20; fruit hispid at the top.--Low grounds, Va. and southward.
10. KOSTELETZKYA, Presl.
Pod depressed, with a single seed in each cell. Otherwise as Hibiscus.
(Named after _V. F. Kosteletzky_, a Bohemian botanist.)
1. K. Virginica, Gray. Roughish-hairy perennial (2--4 deg. high); leaves
halberd-shaped and heart-shaped, the lower 3-lobed; corolla 2' wide,
rose-color; column slender.--Marshes on the coast, N. Y. and southward.
Aug.
11. HIBISCUS, L. ROSE-MALLOW.
Calyx involucellate at the base by a row of numerous bractlets, 5-cleft.
Column of stamens long, bearing anthers for much of its length. Styles
united, stigmas 5, capitate. Fruit a 5-celled loculicidal pod. Seeds
several or many in each cell.--Herbs or shrubs, usually with large and
showy flowers. (An old Greek and Latin name of unknown meaning.)
[*] _Indigenous tall perennials (4--8 deg. high), flowering late in summer._
1. H. Moscheutos, L. (SWAMP ROSE-MALLOW.) _Leaves ovate_, pointed,
toothed, the lower 3-lobed, the uppermost oblong-lanceolate, all
whitened underneath with a fine soft down, glabrous or slightly downy
above; the 1-flowered peduncles sometimes united at the base with the
petioles; bractlets not hairy; _calyx not inflated; pod and seeds
smooth_ or nearly so.--Brackish marshes along the coast, from E. Mass.
southward, and lake shores and swamps westward to Ill. and Mo.,
especially within the influence of salt springs.--Corolla 5--6' in
diameter, light rose-color or white, with or without a crimson eye.
2. H. lasiocarpus, Cav. Leaves soft-downy both sides, the lower broadly
ovate and heart-shaped; bractlets ciliate; pod hirsute;--otherwise
resembling the last. (H. grandiflorus, _Michx._)--Ind. to Mo., and
southward.
3. H. militaris, Cav. (HALBERD-LEAVED R.) _Smooth throughout_; lower
leaves ovate-heart-shaped, toothed, 3-lobed; _upper leaves
halberd-form_, the short lateral lobes spreading at the base, the middle
one prolonged and taper-pointed; peduncles slender; _fruiting calyx
inflated; seeds hairy_.--River-banks, Penn. to Minn., and
southward.--Corolla 2--3' long, flesh-color with purple base.
[*][*] _Escaped from gardens or grounds._
H. TRIONUM, L. (BLADDER KETMIA.) A low, rather _hairy annual_; upper
leaves 3-parted, with lanceolate divisions, the middle one much the
longest; fruiting _calyx inflated, membranaceous, 5-winged_; corolla
sulphur-yellow with a blackish eye, ephemeral; hence the name
_flower-of-an-hour_. (Adv. from Eu.)
H. SYRIACUS, L. (SHRUBBY ALTHAEA of gardeners.) _Tall shrub_, smooth;
leaves wedge-ovate, pointed, cut-toothed or lobed; corolla usually
rose-color.--Escaped rarely from cultivation, Penn., etc. Sept. (Adv.
from Eu.)
ORDER 21. TILIACEAE. (LINDEN FAMILY.)
_Trees (rarely herbs), with the mucilaginous properties, fibrous bark,
valvate calyx, etc., of the_ Mallow Family; _but the sepals deciduous,
petals imbricated in the bud, the stamens usually polyadelphous, and the
anthers 2-celled._ Represented in Northern regions only by the genus,
1. TILIA, Tourn. LINDEN. BASSWOOD.
Sepals 5. Petals 5, spatulate-oblong. Stamens numerous; filaments
cohering in 5 clusters with each other (in European species), or with
the base of a spatulate petal-like body placed opposite each of the real
petals. Pistil with a 5-celled ovary, and 2 half-anatropous ovules in
each cell, a single style, and a 5-toothed stigma. Fruit dry and woody,
indehiscent-globular, becoming 1-celled and 1--2-seeded. Embryo in hard
albumen; cotyledons broad and thin, 5-lobed, crumpled.--Fine trees, with
soft and white wood, very fibrous and tough inner bark, more or less
heart-shaped and serrate alternate leaves (oblique and often truncate at
the base), deciduous stipules, and small cymes of flowers, hanging on an
axillary peduncle which is united to a ligulate membranaceous bract.
Flowers cream-color, honey-bearing, fragrant. (The classical Latin
name.)
1. T. Americana, L. (BASSWOOD.) Leaves large, green and glabrous or
nearly so, thickish; floral bract usually tapering at base; fruit
ovoid.--Rich woods. May, June.--Here rarely called _Lime-tree_, oftener
_White-wood_, commonly _Basswood_; the latter name now obsolete in
England.
2. T. pubescens, Ait. Leaves smaller (2--3' long), thinner, and rather
pubescent beneath; floral bract usually rounded at base; fruit globose,
smaller (3'' broad). (T. Americana, var. pubescens, _Man._)--N. Y. to
Fla., and westward.
3. T. heterophylla, Vent. (WHITE BASSWOOD.) Leaves larger,
smooth and bright green above, silvery-whitened with a fine down
underneath.--Mountains of Penn. to S. Ill., and southward.
T. EUROPAEA, the EUROPEAN LINDEN, several varieties of which are planted
in and near our cities for shade, is at once distinguished from any
native species by the absence of the petal-like scales among the
stamens. This tree (the _Lin_) gave the family name to _Linnaeus_.
ORDER 22. LINACEAE. (FLAX FAMILY.)
_Herbs (rarely shrubs) with the regular and symmetrical hypogynous
flowers 4--6-merous throughout, strongly imbricated calyx and convolute
petals, 5 stamens monadelphous at base, and an 8--10-seeded pod, having
twice as many cells as there are styles._ Represented by the genus,
1. LINUM, Tourn. FLAX.
Sepals (persistent), petals, stamens, and styles 5, regularly alternate
with each other. Pod of 5 united carpels (into which it splits in
dehiscence) and 5-celled, with 2 seeds hanging from the summit of each
cell, which is partly or completely divided into two by a false
partition projecting from the back of the carpel, the pod thus becoming
10-celled. Seeds anatropous, mucilaginous, flattened, containing a large
embryo with plano-convex cotyledons.--Herbs, with tough fibrous bark,
simple and sessile entire leaves (alternate or often opposite), without
stipules, but often with glands in their place, and with corymbose or
panicled flowers. Corolla usually ephemeral. (The classical name of the
Flax.)
[*] _Flowers rather small, yellow; glabrous, 1--2 deg. high._
1. L. Virginianum, L. Stem erect from the base and with the corymbose
spreading or recurving _branches terete and even_; no stipular glands;
leaves oblong or lanceolate, or the lower spatulate and often opposite;
flowers scattered, small (barely 3'' long); sepals ovate, pointed,
smooth-edged or nearly so, equalling the depressed 10-celled pod; styles
distinct.--Dry woods; common.--Root apparently annual; but the plant
propagates by suckers from the base of the stem.
L. FLORIDANUM, Trelease, of rather stricter habit and the pods broadly
ovate and obtuse, appears to have been found in S. Ill.
2. L. striatum, Walt. Stems gregarious, erect or ascending from a
creeping or decumbent base, slightly viscid, and with the mostly
racemose short _branches striate with about 4 sharp wing-like angles_
decurrent from the leaves; these broader than in the last, and mostly
oblong, usually with all the lower ones opposite; flowers more crowded;
sepals scarcely equalling the very small subglobose brownish pod;
otherwise nearly as n. 1.--Wet or boggy grounds, E. Mass. to Lakes
Ontario and Huron, Ill., and southward.
3. L. sulcatum, Riddell. Stem strictly erect from an annual root, and
with the upright or ascending branches wing-angled or grooved; leaves
alternate, linear, acute, the upper subulate and glandular-serrulate; a
pair of _dark glands in place of stipules_; sepals ovate-lanceolate and
sharp-pointed, strongly 3-nerved and with rough-bristly-glandular
margins, scarcely longer than the ovoid-globose incompletely 10-celled
pod; _styles united_ almost to the middle.--Dry soils, E. Mass. to
Minn., and southwestward.--Flowers and pods twice as large as in the
preceding.
4. L. rigidum, Pursh. Glaucous, sometimes slightly puberulent, often low
and cespitose, the rigid branches angled; leaves narrow, erect, usually
with stipular glands; flowers large; sepals lanceolate,
glandular-serrulate; styles united; capsule ovoid, 5-valved.--Minn. to
Kan., and southward.
[*][*] _Flowers large, blue._
5. L. perenne, L., var. Lewisii, Eat. & Wright. Perennial, glabrous and
glaucous, 1--3 deg. high; leaves linear, acute; flowers rather few on long
peduncles; sepals obtuse or acutish, not glandular-serrulate; styles
distinct; pod ovate.--Minn. to Neb., and westward. (Eu., Asia.)
L. USITATISSIMUM, L. (COMMON FLAX.) Annual; stem corymbosely branched at
top; sepals acute, ciliate.--Occasionally spontaneous in fields. (Adv.
from Eu.)
ORDER 23. GERANIACEAE. (GERANIUM FAMILY.)
_Plants (chiefly herbs) with perfect and generally symmetrical
hypogynous flowers; the stamens, counting sterile filaments, as many or
commonly twice as many, and the lobes or cells (1--few-ovuled) of the
ovary as many, as the sepals, the axis of the dry fruit
persisting._--Seeds without albumen except in Oxalis. Flowers mostly
5-merous and the sepals usually distinct. Leaves never punctate. An
order not easily defined, and including several strongly marked tribes
or suborders which have been regarded by many botanists as distinct.
Tribe I. GERANIEAE. (GERANIUM FAMILY proper.) Flowers regular, 5-merous,
the sepals imbricate in the bud, persistent. Glands of the disk 5,
alternate with the petals. Stamens somewhat united. Ovary deeply lobed;
carpels 5, 2-ovuled, 1-seeded, separating elastically with their long
styles, when mature, from the elongated axis. Cotyledons plicate,
incumbent on the radicle.--Herbs (our species) with more or less lobed
or divided leaves, stipules, and astringent roots.
1. Geranium. Stamens with anthers 10, rarely 5. The recurving bases of
the styles or tails of the carpels in fruit naked inside.
2. Erodium. Stamens with anthers only 5. Tails of the carpels in fruit
bearded inside, often spirally twisted.
Tribe II. LIMNANTHEAE. Flowers regular, 3-merous (in Floerkea), the
persistent sepals valvate. Glands alternate with the petals. Stamens
distinct. Carpels nearly distinct, with a common style, 1-ovuled,
1-seeded, at length fleshy and indehiscent, not beaked, separating from
the very short axis. Embryo straight, cotyledons very thick, radicle
very short.--Low tender annuals, with alternate pinnate leaves and no
stipules.
3. Floerkea. Sepals, minute pistils, and lobes of the ovary 3,
stamens 6.
Tribe III. OXALIDEAE. (SORREL FAMILY.) Flowers regular, 5-merous, the
persistent sepals imbricate. Glands none. Stamens 10, often united at
base. Stigmas capitate. Fruit a 5-celled loculicidal pod (in Oxalis);
cells 2--several-seeded. Embryo straight, in a little fleshy
albumen.--Leaves compound (3-foliolate in our species); juice sour.
4. Oxalis. Styles 5, separate. Pod oblong, the valves not falling away.
Leaflets usually obcordate.
Tribe IV. BALSAMINEAE. (BALSAM FAMILY.) Flowers irregular (5-merous as to
the stamens and pistil); the petals and colored sepals fewer in number,
deciduous, the larger sepal with a large sac or spur. Glands none.
Stamens 5, distinct, short. Fruit a fleshy 5-celled pod (in Impatiens),
cells several-seeded. Embryo straight.--Tender and very succulent herbs,
with simple leaves and no stipules.
5. Impatiens. Lateral petals unequally 2-lobed. Pod bursting elastically
into 5 valves.
1. GERANIUM, Tourn. CRANESBILL.
Stamens 10 (sometimes only 5 in n. 3), all with perfect anthers, the 5
longer with glands at their base (alternate with the petals). Styles
smooth inside in fruit when they separate from the axis.--Stems forking.
Peduncles 1--3-flowered. (An old Greek name from [Greek: ge/ranos], _a
crane_, the long fruit bearing beak thought to resemble the bill of that
bird.)
[*] _Rootstock perennial._
1. G. maculatum, L. (WILD CRANESBILL.) Stem erect, hairy; leaves about
5-parted, the wedge-shaped divisions lobed and cut at the end, sepals
slender-pointed, petals entire, light purple, bearded on the claw (1/2'
long).--Open woods and fields. April--July.--Leaves somewhat blotched
with whitish as they grow old.
[*][*] _Root biennial or annual; flowers small._
[+] _Leaves ternately much dissected, heavy-scented._
2. G. Robertianum, L. (HERB ROBERT.) Sparsely hairy, diffuse,
strong-scented, leaves 3-divided or pedately 5-divided, the divisions
twice pinnatifid; sepals awned, shorter than the (red-purple) petals;
carpels wrinkled; seeds smooth.--Moist woods and shaded ravines; N. Eng.
to Mo., and northward. June--Oct. (Eu.)
[+][+] _Leaves palmately lobed or dissected._
3. G. Carolinianum, L. Stems at first erect, diffusely branched from the
base, hairy; leaves about 5-parted, the divisions cleft and cut into
numerous oblong-linear lobes; peduncles and pedicels short; _sepals
awn-pointed_, as long as the emarginate (pale rose-colored) petals;
carpels hairy; _seeds ovoid-oblong, very minutely reticulated._--Barren
soil and waste places; common. May--Aug.--Depauperate forms, except by
the seeds, are hardly distinguishable from
G. DISSECTUM, L. More slender and spreading, with narrower lobes to the
crowded leaves, and smaller red-purple petals notched at the end; _seeds
short-ovoid or globular, finely and deeply pitted._--Waste grounds,
rare. (Nat. from Eu.)
G. ROTUNDIFOLIUM, L. With the habit of the next but the fruit and seed
of the last; villous with long white hairs tipped with purple glands,
leaves short-lobed.--Rare. (Nat. from Eu.)
G. PUSILLUM, L. Stems procumbent, slender, minutely pubescent; _leaves
rounded kidney-form_, 5--7-parted, the divisions wedge-shaped, mostly
3-lobed, _sepals awnless_, about as long as the (purplish) petals;
stamens 5; fruit pubescent; _seeds smooth._--Waste places, Mass. to
Penn.; rare. (Nat. from Eu.)