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ROSACEJE. (ROSE FAMILY.) 
leaflets very numerous and crowded, oblong-wedge-form, deeply cut¬ 
toothed ; flowers 3 or more on long peduncles ; bractlets linear , longer 
than the calyx , as long as the oblong purplish petals; styles very long 
(2 ; ), strongly plumose in fruit. — Rocks, New Hampshire and N. New 
York (Hr. Craice) northward to Wisconsin, rare. May, June. — 
Stems 6' -12' high. Calyx purple. 
7. G. Peckii, Pursh. (Peck’s Mountain Avens.) Some¬ 
what smooth; leaves from the rootstock, large, roundish-kidney-form, 
crenately cut-toothed, with a set of minute lateral leaflets down the 
petiole ; flowering stem nearly leafless, 3- 5-flowered; bractlets mi¬ 
nute ; petals round-obovate , spreading , yellow ; styles hairy towards the 
base , naked above. — Alpine summits of the White Mts. of New 
Hampshire. Aug. — Stems 6' - 20' high; the golden flowers hand¬ 
some. 
11. WALDSTEINIA, Willd. (Comaropsis, DC.) 
Calyx-tube inversely conical; the limb 5-cleft, with 5 often 
minute and deciduous bractlets. Petals 5. Stamens many, in¬ 
serted into the throat of the calyx. Achenia 2-6, minutely 
hairy ; the terminal slender styles deciduous from the base by a 
joint. Seed erect. — Low perennial herbs, with chiefly radical 
3 - 5-lobed or divided leaves, and small yellow flowers on bracted 
scapes. (Named in honor of Francis von Waldstein , a German 
botanist.) 
1. w. fragarioides, Tratt. (Barren Strawberry.) Low; 
leaflets 3, broadly wedge-form, crenately cut-toothed; scapes several- 
flowered ; petals longer than the calyx. (Dalibarda fragarioides, 
Michx.) — Wooded hill-sides, common northward. May._Leaf¬ 
stalks and scapes 4'-8' high. 
12. POTENTILLA, L. Cinque-foil. Five-finger. 
Calyx deeply 5-cleft, with as many bractlets at the sinuses, thus 
appearing 10-cleft. Petals 4-5, roundish or inversely heart- 
shaped, deciduous. Stamens many. Achenia many, collected in 
a head on the dry hairy receptacle : styles lateral or terminal, de¬ 
ciduous. — Herbs, or rarely shrubs, with compound leaves, and 
solitary or cymose flowers. Perennials, except No. 1. (Name a 
kind of diminutive from potens , powerful, alluding to the reputed 
medicinal power, of which in fact these plants possess very little, 
being mild astringents merely, like the rest of the tribe.) 
§ 1. Style terminal , or attached above the middle of the ovary. 
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