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TORMENTILLA'ERECTA. common TORMENTIL, Or 
UPRIGHT SEPTFOIL. 
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TNONTMJ. ToRMENTiLLA, Pharm, Lond, b* £^i//. '^'o.^ 
MENTiLLA OFFICINALIS, ^ Ciirt, Flof, Loud, Fragaria tctrap 
tala, foliis caulinis feffilibus qumatis. HaL Stlrp, Heh. n. I ii 
ToRMENTiLLA fylveflris, Baub, Pin. 326. Pentaphyllum aut 
potius Heptaphyllum, fiore aureo tetrapetalo, Tormentilla didum. 
Htft, Oxon^ 11. 1 90.. , 
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Ef Gen. Char. Gal. 8-fidus. Petala^.. Sent, fubrotunda,. nuda^ 
receptaculo parvo exfucco afExa 
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Spec. Char.: T. caule erediufculo, foliis feffilibus,. 
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THE root is perennial, thick, roundilH, Irregularly conica! 
knobbed, and covered with bark of a dark brown colour ; the internal 
fubftance is denfe, and has a reddifh tinge ; it fends forth many 
Hems, which grow about a fpan high ; they are round, llender, firm, 
fomewhat hairy, more or lefs ered, and branched towards the top. 
The leaves upon the ftalk are generally divided into feven, but thofe 
upon the branches are commonly five; of thefe, three are larger than, 
the others ; they are all of an eliptical ihape, deeply ferrated, villous, 
and the upper furface is of a deeper green colour than the under. 
The flowers Hand fingly upon long peduncles, which fpring from the 
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of the leaves, each flower confifting of four fmall, roundifh, emar 
ginated, yellow petals; the calyx is cut into eight unequal fegments 
the piililla are commonly eight, and contain as many feeds. This pi 
is common in dry paftures, and ufually flow^ers in June. It is diftin 
uiihed from the Tormentilla reptans, by its feffile leaves,, its fmalle 
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