Fallugia
(named after Fallugius, a Florentine botanist, who flourished about the end of the seventeenth century). ORD. Rosaceae. A monotypic genus. The species is an erect, much-branched shrub. For culture, see Sieversia (to which it is allied).
F. paradoxa (paradoxical). fl. white, large, showy, sub-corymbose, pedicellate. l. alternate, petiolate, irregularly three to five-lobed or pinnatifid, rarely entire; lobes linear, obtuse; margins recurved, snowy underneath. New Mexico. (B. M. 6660.)