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Flowers in headlets. 



Perennial; stems prostrate, often somewhat rooting; 

 leaflets in four to ten pairs, from oval to orbicular, 

 closely indented, often beset with hairlets underneath ; 

 flowers in solitary terminal globular headlets; calyx-lobes 

 generally four ; stamens two ; fruit-calyx terminating 

 into four, at the end barbed bristlets. 



A. sanguisorbae. 



1071. Flowers in paniculate corymbs. 



A perennial herb, here alpine, much beset with spreading 

 soft hairlets ; leaves plaited, from cordate- to renate- 

 orbicular, short- and broad-lobed, also denticulated, the 

 lowest on long stalks; stipules somewhat adnate to the 

 leaf-stalk ; calyx four-lobed, supported by four minute 

 bracts (or bracteoles) close to the lobes ; stamens four ; 

 fruitlet often only one. "Lady's Mantle." 



A. vulgaris. 



GEUItt. 



1072. Style jointed at its single twist near the middle. 



A perennial erect herb, often beset with hairlets ; basal 

 leaves several, on long stalks ; their leaflets three to five, 

 obovate- or rhomboid-cuneate, irregularly serrulated, also 

 occasionally somewhat lobed ; upper leaves consisting of 

 one or three leaflets, with smaller two accessory in a 

 stipular position ; flowers few or several, axillary- terminal; 

 petals yellow ; upper joint of the style deciduous ; fruitlets 

 dry. "Avens." G. nrbaiium. 



FOTNTILI,A. 



1073. Leaflets generally underneath invested with appressed 



silver-shining hairlets. 



A perennial creeping herb, the off-shoots rooting ; leaflets 

 in several or many pairs, mostly from obovate to elliptical 

 in outline, closely and deeply indented, occasionally 

 almost devoid of vestiture ; flowers on elongated stalks, 

 solitary or rarely two together ; bracts supporting the 

 calyx high-adnate, somewhat indented ; petals yellow ; 

 fruitlets dry. " British Silver- weed. " P. anseriiia. 



ZIUBUS. 



1074. Leaves simple. 



A tall and prickly climber, much invested with greyish or 

 oftener brownish hairlets ; leaves from ovate- to orbi- 

 cular-cordate, indented, above wrinkled and gradually 



