Cream Avens

Geum hirsutum Muhl. (Cat. 51; hyponym. 1813); Link, Enum
2: 65. 1822.
Geum canadense Fischer & Trautv. Ind. Sem. Petrop. 3: 35. 1837. Not G. canadense J acq. 1772. Geum album flavum Porter, Bull. Torrey Club 16: 21. 1889. Geum canadense flavum Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 18: 270. 1891. Geum flavum Bickn. Bull. Torrey Club 23: 523. 1896. Perennial, with a short rootstock; stem 3-12 dm. high, strongly hirsute below, corymbosely branched above; basal leaves very variable, pinnate or simple, petioled; petioles hirsute; teVminal leaflet in the earlier ones rounded or cordate, 5-10 cm. long, lobed and crenate or dentate, with or without several smaller rounded leaflets on the petioles; later basal leaves pinnately 3-7-foliolate, with the leaflets diminishing downwards, the upper leaflets usually rhombic or oblong-ovate, round-lobed, crenate-dentate ; lower stem-leaves similar; upper ones 3-foliolate or 3-cleft; both surfaces pilose, the lower somewhat paler; stipules large, incised and lobed; flowers nodding; bractlets linear or oblong, often half as long as the sepals; sepals ovate, acute or short-acuminate, 4-5 mm. long; petals ochroleucous, cuneate-obovate or oblong, 2-3 mm. long; fruiting head about 1.5 mm. in diameter; receptacle hispid; body of the achenes about 4 mm. long; lower internode of the style 4 mm. long, glabrous; upper internode 1 mm. long, hirsute below.
Type locality: Pennsylvania.
Distribution: Woods and banks, from Connecticut to Ohio, Georgia, and Tennessee; (?Mis-

Geum virginianum L. Sp. PL 500. 1753
Geum laciniatum Murr. Novi Comm. Gott. 5: 30. 1775.
Caryophyllata virgintana Lam. Kncyc. 1: 399. 1783.
Geum heterophyllum Desf.; Seringe, in DC. Prodr. 2: 550. 1825.
Perennial, with a thick rootstock; stem 3-10 dm. high, hirsute with reflexed hairs, branched above; basal leaves petioled, 1-3 dm. long, the earlier ones often with only the terminal lobe present, which is rounded-reniform, crenate and somewhat lobed, the other basal leaves pinnate with variously dissected obovate segments ; lower stem-leaves similar btrj: with shorter petioles, the upper ones 3-divided or 3-lobed, with rhormbic or oblanceolate or obovate, acute or acuminate divisions; leaf-surfaces hirsute; stipules ovate, dentate; fruiting pedicels short, rigid; flowers declined; bractlets linear, about half as long as the lanceolate acuminate sepals, which are 5-6 mm. long, reflexed; petals white, oblong or cuneate, shorter than the sepals; fruiting head 1.5-2 cm. in diameter; receptacle glabrous; body of the achenes 3-4 mm. long, often sparingly hispid near the apex, otherwise glabrous; lower internode of the style 4-5 mm. long, glabrous; upper internode about 1 mm. long, sparingly pubescent with short ascending
hairs.
Type locality: Virginia.
Distribution: Thickets and low places, from New Brunswick to North Carolina, Missouri, and Minnesota.