YELLOW 



which they liken to the golden teeth of the heraldic lion. In 

 nearly every European country the plant bears a name of similar 

 significance. 



ROUGH CINQUEFOIL. 



Poteiitilla Norvegica. Rose Family. 



Stout, rough, six inches to two and one-half feet high, with many leafy 

 bracts. Leaves. — Divided into three obovate leaflets. Flowers. — Yellow, 

 in rather close, leafy clusters. Calyx. — Deeply five-cleft, with bracts 

 between each tooth, thus appearing ten-cleft. — Lobes larger than the 

 petals of corolla. Corolla. — Small, of live petals. Stamens and pistils. — 

 Numerous. 



This rather weedy-looking plant is often common in dry soil, 

 flowering throughout the summer. 



COMMON CINQUEFOIL. FIVE FINGER. 



Potentilla Canadensis. Rose Family. 



Stetn. — Slender; prostrate, or sometimes erect. Z^az/^j.— Divided really 

 into three leaflets, but apparently into five by the parting of the lateral leaf- 

 lets. Flowers. — Yellow; growing singly from the axils of the leaves. 

 Calyx. — Deeply five-cleft, with bracts between each tooth, thus appearing 

 ten-cleft. Corolla. — Of five rounded petals. Stamens. — Many. Pistils. 

 — Many, in a head. 



From spring to nearly midsummer the roads are bordered 

 and the fields carpeted with the bright flowers of the common 

 cinquefoil. The passer-by unconsciously betrays his recognition 

 of some of the prominent features of the Rose family by often 

 assuming that the plant is a yellow-flowered wild strawberry. 

 Both of the English names refer to the pretty foliage, cinquefoil 

 being derived from the French cinque feuilles. The generic 

 name, Potentilla, has reference to the powerful medicinal prop- 

 erties formerly attributed to the genus. 



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