

PENTANDRIA. PQLYGYNIA. Myosuras. 



Root woody. Stems trailing, covered with the remains of 

 the dead leaf-stalks. Leaf-stalks slender, below oblong, mem* 

 branaceous, embracing the stems* Leaves J-fingered. Leafits 

 inversely egg-shaped, but somewhat lopped at the end, beset on 

 each side with soft hairs ; teeth somewhat pointed. Bloss. yel- 

 low, smaller than the calyx. Pistils sometimes 1 1 », and S in the 

 same plant. In what respects it differs from the Potentilla may 

 be seen by comparing the descriptions of the two genera. Linn. 

 Leaves entire at the edges, lopped and 3-toothed at the end. 

 When cultivated, the stamens are often 7* or more, the ger« 

 mens 10 ; seeds h ; fixed to a dry hairy receptacle. 



Procumbent Sit<ver-<weed. Mountains of Scotland. [North 



side of Ben Lomond, three-fourths up the mountain, plentiful* 



321 



On Ben Mor, sparingly. Mr. Brown.] 



P. July, Aug. 



POLYGYNIA* 





MYOSU'RUS. Col. 5 leaves, united at the base, 



deciduous: nectaries 5, like petals; awl- 

 shaped : seeds numerous, coated, pendent. 



M. 



E. hot, &5-Kniph. 5-Curt. 25 1 *»*/. dan. 4Q6-.MM. lllustr. 

 -Dod. 112. \-Lob. ohi. 242. l-Ger. em. 4,26. i-Park. 



500-J. B. iii. 512-P</. 3$. "t-Ger. 345. \-tonic. ii. 

 18. 1. 



St am. varying from 4 to 10 or 20. Lyons. Gmil. Leave* 

 sometimes hairy. Huds. From 2 to 4 inches high. Stalk simple. 

 Leaves narrow, strap-shaped. Flowers yellowish green, termi- 

 nating. Receptacle of the seeds very long, nearly cylindrical, 

 like the tail of a mouse. 



Little Mouse -tail. Cornfields, meadows and pastures, in a 

 gravelly soil. [At Lahenham. Mr. Crowe.— Near Derby. 

 Mr. Wba?*cy.— *MalvemChace,Worcestersh. Mt. Ballard.] 

 The whole plant is acrid. A, May, June. 



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