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Key to the North American Species of Agrintottia

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KEY TO THE NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF AGRINTOTTIA.

Leaflets serrate, dentate or crenate with numerous teeth.

Racemes and leaves beneath glabrous or with loose spreading hairs.

Roots not tuberous; fruit large, turbinate, with numerous radiating bristles.

hirszeta.

Roots tuberous-thickened ; fruit very small, hemispheric, with few ascending or erect bristles. 2. A. striala.

Racemes and lower surface of the leaves closely or softly pubescent.

Roots tuberous; items pubescent ; leaflets not glandular-dotted beneath.

Small or simple, with elongated terminal raceme, leaflets 3-5.

3. A, pumila.

Larger, branched, leaflets 5—i 1. 4. A. mollis.

Roots not tuberous ; stems hirsute ; leaflets glandular-dotted beneath. Leaflets 5-9, oblong or rhomboid; fruit large, the bristles connivent, 5. A. Brittoniana.

Leaflets 9-23, lanceolate ; fruit small, the bristles radiate.

6. A. parvifiora.

Leaflets incised with few salient teeth. 7. A. incisa.