THE TOBMENTIL AND 

 CINQUEFOIL. 



Potcnt'dla Tormetitilla; P. reptans. 

 Sat. Ord., Rosacea;. 



N all probability the two very 

 similar plants herewith figured 

 will be familiar to most dwellers 

 in the country, for insignificant 

 as they may appear in comparison 

 with the lordly foxglove, the long, 

 trailing, flower-covered stems of 

 the wild rose, or the rich masses 

 of hawthorn bloom, plants that 

 must be known to every one, 

 they yet, by their wonderful pro- 

 fusion, and the large surface 

 of ground they ordinarily cover, 

 compel in the aggregate the attention 

 that would hardly be given to an isolated 

 specimen. Few hedgerow banks in the 

 spring are not brightened by the large 

 yellow flowers of the cinquefoil, or tapestried over with 

 its masses of beautiful leaves, while the more open ground, 

 the common, or the moor, is equally abundantly decked 

 with the little golden blossoms of the tormentil. 



The cinquefoil, the plant in our plate with the larger 



