42 COMMON CANADIAN WILD PLANTS. 



5. G. triflo'mm, Pursh. Stein about a foot high, soft-hairy. 

 Flowers 3 or more, on long peduncles, purple. Styles not jointed. 

 feathery, at ka*t :> inch tony in the fruit. Dry hills and tin 

 not common. 



6. WAL-nSTKI'NIA, Willd. JUimnx STUAWnRimY. 



W, fragarioi'des, Tratt. A low plant, 4-6 inches high. 

 Leaflets 3, broadly wedge-form, crenately toothed. Scapes several - 

 flowered. Petals yellow, longer than the calyx. Dry woods and 



hill-sides. 



7. POTE!VTIL,'L,A, L. ClNQUK-FoiL. 



1. P. Norve'gica, L- (NORWAY CINQUE- FOIL.) Stem erect, 

 liairy, branching above. Leaves palmate, of 3 leaflet* ; leal lets 

 obovate-obloug, coarsely serrate. Flowers in cymoso cluster.--. 

 Petals pale yellow, small, not lonyer than the sepals. Fields and 

 low grounds. 



2. P. paradox'a, Nutt., a plant of spreading or decumbent 

 habit, with pinnate leaves of 5-9 leaflets, solitary flowers, *in<i// 

 petals, and acheues with an appendage at the base, occurs along 

 the south-western shore of Lake Ontario. 



3. P. Canaden'sis, L. (CANADA C.) Stern prostrate or ascend- 

 ing, silky-hairy. Leaves palmate, of 5 leajlets, the latter serrate 

 towards the apex. Flowers solitary. Petals yellow, longer than 

 the sepals. Dry soil. 



4. P. argen'tea, L. (SILVERY C.) Stem ascending, branched 

 at the summit, white-ivool/u. Leaves palmate, of 5 leaflets, the 

 latter deeply serrate towards the apex, with revolute mart/in*, mul 

 woolly beneath. Petals yellow, longer than the sepals. Dry tieMs 

 and roadsides. 



5. P. argll'ta, Pursh. Stem stout, 1-2 feet high, brownish - 

 hairy. Leaves pinnate, of 3-9 oval serrate leaflets, downy under- 

 neath. Flowers in dense cymose clusters. Petals yellowish or 

 cream-coloured, deciduous. Plant clammy above. Dry th: 



6. P. Anseri'na, L. (SIIAKU- WMKU.) A lo\\ -plant. <T<( i>ui[i 

 tcith */<://</ rwmers, Leav.-s ;ill i-.tdical, interruptedly pinnate : 

 leaflets 9-19, serrate, green above, sttvery-yilky beneath. / 

 KO/iftti'i/, oniony scape- lih- peduncles, l-ri^ht yellow. l;i\ 



lake margins, 



