ORD. XXVII. SENTICOSA. 
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7 {From Sentis, a Briar or Bramble.) 
Spinous or rough Plants. 
S oaeeentenntniemnees a... an emenemeatentiiememmen 
YPOTENTILLA REPTANS. COMMON CINQUEFOIL. 
SYNONYMA. Pentaphyllum. Pharm. Lond. Quinquefolium 
majus repens. Bauh. Pin. p. 325. Quinquefolium vulgare. 
Gerard. Emac. p. 987. Pentaphyllum vulgatissimum. Park. 
Theat. p. 398. Raii Hist. p. G11. Synop. p. 255. J. Bauh. 
Hist. p. 397. Fragara foliis quinatis, serratis, petiolis unifloris, 
caule reptante. Hal. Stirp. Helv. n. 1118. Withering. Bot. 
Arrang. p. 534. Curtis Flor. Lond. 3 
Class Icosandria. Ord. Polygynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 634. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Cal. 10-fidus. Petala 5. Sem. subrotunda, nuda, 
receptaculo parvo ex succo affixa. : 
Sp. Ch. P. foliis quinatis, catile repente, pedunculis unifloris. 
THE root is perennial, long, tapering, or fusiform, furnished 
with but few fibres, internally reddish, and externally of a 
yellowish brown colour: the stalks are numerous, slender, pur- 
plish, smooth, and creeping: the leaves are quinate, or five, 
saldahihcnices orsticecrainncsenil eine 
