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Callirhoe (Seven species of this genus)

Seven species of this genus are known. Calyx five-cleft; petals purplish, pink, or white, cuneiform-truncate and often fimbriate-denticulate. Leaves mostly lobed or parted. To the species described on p. 243, Vol. I., the following varieties should now be added:

C. involucrata lineariloba (linear-lobed). fl., petals lilac in the centre, margined white on each side, broad, obcuneate. l. pedato-partite, dark green, roundish in outline, cut in a bipinnatifid manner almost to the base into narrow lobes 1/8in. wide. Stems numerous, trailing. Texas, 1884. C. pedata compacta (compact). A compact, garden variety, having flowers of a delicate blush. 1887. (R. G. 1224.)