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Description of Fig. 247.

Roors fibrous, matted, somewhat spreading.
STEM of scaly nodes, internodes none.

LEAVES radical, simple, exstipulate, peltately palmate-veined, wavy, deeply two-lobed, shut sinus at base; petiole long, round, rather erect.

INFLORESCENCE Solitary, on a smooth, naked scape. FLOWER. CALYX; sepals 4, polysepalous, oblong: COROLLA; petals 8, polypetalous, regular, oblong, spreading: STAMENS 8; filaments threadlike, shorter than anther; anthers two-celled, oblong: PISTIL; carpels 2; style short; stigma spreading, two-lobed.

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Description of Fig. 248.

Roors fibrous, growing from the entire under-side

of the stem.

STEM creeping below the ground.

LEAF radical, petiolate, exstipulate, wavy-dentate, palmate-veined, slightly reniform, obtusely sevenlobed, sinuses rounded, nearly closed; petiole halfround, channelled.

INFLORESCENCE solitary, on a smooth, slender

scape.

FLOWER. CALYX; sepals 2, ovate, regular : COROLLA; petals 8, polypetalous, regular, obovateoblong, spreading: STAMENS many, shorter than the petals; filaments short, threadlike; anthers oblong, two-celled: PISTIL; ovary oblong, of two carpels; styles united in a column; stigma two-lobed.

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Description of Fig. 249.

ROOTS fasciculated.

STEM slender, weak, round, herbaceous, hairy. LEAVES radical and cauline. Radical leaves, petiolate, exstipulate, deeply twice ternately lobed; petioles long, hairy. Cauline leaves sessile alternate, shaped like the radical leaves, but much smaller.

INFLORESCENCE solitary, terminal.

FLOWER. CALYXx; sepals 5, polysepalous, regular, spreading: COROLLA; petals 5, polypetalous, regular, oval, spreading: STAMENS many; filaments threadlike; anthers short, two-celled: PISTIL; carpels many; styles very short or absent; stigma inner and upper part of carpel or style.

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