178 BRITISH BOTANY. 



A. 18. C. 82. Lat. 50-61°. Alt. 0-1100 yds. Tem. 52-36°. 



Roots thick, often woody. Stems numerous, slender, spread- 

 ing or ascending, 6-12 inches high. Leaves ternate, rarely qui- 

 nate ; leaflets cuneate, deeply toothed, the terminal teeth being 

 longer than the lateral teeth; radical leaves on long petioles, 

 often decayed before flowering; stem-leaves sessile; stipules 

 leaf-like, large, deeply toothed. Flowers rather small. Calyx in 

 4, rarely in 5, divisions. Petals 4, rarely 5, rather longer than 

 the sepals. Carpels smooth when ripe. 



On heathy places in dry or moist commons or pastures. Per- 

 ennial; May- August. 



I have a variety of this plant collected about Callander and 

 other places in the Perthshire Highlands, which has very long 

 linear-cuneate leaflets, with 3-5 very long spreading teeth or 

 lobes. The stems are very long and prostrate, the flowers are 

 on long pedicels. Qu. Is this P. nemoralis, Nestl. ? 



Var. /9. procumbens. — Tormentilla reptans, e.b. 864. — Stem 

 prostrate, elongate, round, hairy. Leaves all petiolate; leaflets 

 obovate, regularly, closely, and sharply toothed; stipules not 

 leaf-like nor divided, as in P. Tormentilla, with which it agrees 

 only in the divisions of the calyx and in the number of its petals. 

 It differs in nothing from P. reptans, except in the number of 

 the parts composing its floral envelopes. 



P. reptans, Lin. Creeping Cinquefoil. — e.b. 863. l.b.s. 331. 

 A. 16. C. 70. Lat. 50-58°. Alt. 0-200 yds. Tem. 52-47°. 



Root thick, crowned with a rosette of leaves. Stems long, 

 slender or filiform, prostrate and rooting at the joints. Leaves 

 usually in five divisions; segments (leaflets) obovate or oblong, 

 tapering and cuneate at the base, serrated with numerous large 

 teeth. Flowers solitary, lateral or opposite to the leaves, on long 

 pedicels. Outer sepals (bracts) larger than the inner, sometimes 

 incised. Petals longer than the sepals. Carpels, when ripe, 

 slightly rough. 



Roadsides. Perennial; June- August. 



P. alpestris. Hall. Alpine Cinquefoil. — e.b. 2193. l.b.s. 

 330. 



A. 5. C. 10. Lat. 53-57°. Alt. 200-900 yds. Tem. 46-37°. 



Roots rather woody, divided at the crown. Stems numerous, 

 6-12 inches high, ascending, branched, hairy, and leafy. Root- 

 leaves quinate (in fives), rarely septenate (in sevens), with cu- 



