182 BRITISH BOTANY. 



A. 3. C. 3. Lat. 54-55°. Alt.? Tern,? 



A bushy shrub, about 3 or 4 feet high, leafy. Leaves stalked ; 

 leaflets 5-7, oblong, acute, hairy, revolute at the margin, pale on 

 the under side, the 3 terminal confluent; upper leaves teruate. 

 Flowers terminal and aggregate, large and handsome. 



Greta Bridge and other places in Teesdale, Perennial; 

 June. 



P. supina. — Stem round, hairy, reddish, much branched, pro- 

 cumbent, leafy. Leaves pinnate, having two pairs of leaflets, with 

 a large, terminal, usually trifid lobe; leaflets oblong, sessile, 

 incised, with erect lobes or teeth, quite smooth on both sides ; 

 stipules entire or toothed (the lower are entire, the upper 3- 

 toothed). Flowers solitary, axillary, on slender, reflex pedicels, 

 which are shorter than the leaves. Outer sepals longer than the 

 inner, ovate, spreading ; inner segments of the calyx triangular, 

 pointed, erect or embracing the fruit. Petals not half so long 

 as the calyx. Segments obovate or cuneate, notched, bright 

 yellow. Fruit very compact, hemispherical. 



Battersea fields, on mud and soil. Annual ? ; July, August. 



Sect. IV. — Receptacle fleshy. 



P. cominaruin, Nestl. — Comrharum i^alustre, L. Purple 

 Marsh Cinquefoil. — e.b. 172. l.b.s. 334. 



A. 18. C. 70. Lat. 50-61°. Alt. 0-900 yds. Tern. 50-38°. 



Stems round, ascending, hairy, branched, reddish. Leaves 

 elliptic -oblong, serrated with large pointed teeth, light-green 

 above, hoary below, pinnate ; stipules leaf-like, entire and rounded 

 at the base, serrated and sharply pointed upwards. Outer calyx 

 (calycine bracts) spreading, linear-lanceolate. Sepals (divisions 

 of the inner calyx) ovate, acute, purple within and usually of a 

 dingy purple without, converging and covering the fruit. Seeds 

 (carpels) numerous, easily detached from the enlarged, conical, 

 fleshy or spongy receptacle. 



Peaty, boggy places; not common. Perennial; June, July. 



Note. — " Differing from Potentilla, to which perhaps it ought 

 to be joined, by its enlarged spongy receptacle/' — Babington, 

 Man. 2nd ed. p. 95. 



Fragaria, L. — Perennial plants, with thick, woody roots, 

 which are invested with the dilated bases of the decayed leaves, 

 throwing out numerous stolons (runners) which strike roots, and 



