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Stems taking root at the joints. Petals large and yellow, mostly 

 five, but occasionally only four. 



4. P. Tormentilla (Nesl.) Common Tormentil or Septfoil. Tor- 

 mentilla officinalis (Linn.) Engl. Bot. t. 863. St. 34, 12. 



Locality. In dry open meads, thickets, pastures, and on heathy 

 moory ground. P. Fl. June, August. Area, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Com- 

 mon throughout Wilts, and one of the most abundantly diflPused 

 British plants ; stems procumbent, or ascending at the base. 

 Flowers small, bright yellow, and mostly with four petals, carpels 

 longitudinally wrinkled. 



Var. ^. P. procumhens (Sibth) procumbent or creeping Tormen- 

 tilla. T reptans (Linn.) Engl. Bot. t. 864. Occurring in woods, 

 and hedge-banks ; appears to be a more procumbent variety, of the 

 above ; occasionally creeping at the base, with rather larger flowers, 

 varying with four or ^se petals, when it becomes diflBcult to distin- 

 guish from P. reptans (Linn.) Many botanists are of opinion that 

 the two plants are identical. 



5. P. fragariastrum (Ehrh.) Barren Strawberry, Strawberry- 

 leaved Cinquefoil. Engl. Bot. 1785. Fragaria sterilis (Linn.) 



Locality. Woods, banks, and dry pastures. P. Fl. April, May. 

 Area, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. In all the Districts. Habit that of Fragaria 

 vesca (Linn.) wood Strawberry, for which it is often mistaken. 



CoMAKUM, (Linn.) CoMARxnu. 

 Linn. CI. xii. Ord. iii. 



Name. From (comaros) Gr. for the Arbutus, which it resembles 

 in fruit. 



1. G. palustre (Linn.) Marsh Cinquefoil or Purple Marsh-locks. 

 Engl. Bot. t. 172. Potentilla Oomarum (Nestl.) 



Locality. In very swampy or boggy places. Eare. P. Fl. 

 July, August. Area, 1. * * * * • 



South Division. 



1. South-east District, " Grimstead," Mr. James Hussey. Very 

 rare in the county. This plant formerly grew in some abundance on 

 Alderbury Common, but I have recently been informed by Mr. James 

 Hussey that it is now lost by drainage. Last year it was reported 



