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Blooms on the bank of that clear brook 

 Whose music cheers my lonely way." 



The Silver Weed creeps along the ground by means of 

 slender many-jointed runners, and its stems are usually 

 curved and winding. When the fruit ripens it consists of 

 a head formed of several little achenes, or nutlets. The 

 Potentillas are very numerous in the mountain regions. 



Potentilla dissect a, or Common Cinque foil, is a low al- 

 pine plant, more or less silky and hairy, and has a yellow 

 flower with a five-lobed calyx and five roundish petals. It 

 resembles a miniature rose. The foliage consists of from 

 five to seven toothed leaflets on each stem, the terminal 

 leaflet being three-lobed at the apex. 



There are several varieties of this species: Potentilla 

 dissecta var. glaucophylla, or Smooth Cinquefoil, has 

 smooth green leaves; Potentilla dissecta var. multisecta, or 

 Dissected Cinquefoil, has whitish silky foliage, each leaflet 

 being long and narrow ; and Potentilla dissecta var. pinnati- 

 secta, or Leafy Cinquefoil, has more numerous leaflets and 

 a one-flowered stem, which grows only about three inches 

 high, the whole plant being smooth, with the exception of 

 the hairy calyx and tufted apices of the leaves. 



Many of the Cinquefoils (cinque, "five"; f entiles, 

 "leaves") have five-parted leaves, hence their common 

 name. 



Potentilla norvegica, or Rough Cinquefoil, is a coarse 

 weed-like plant, with leaves that are divided into three leaf- 

 lets, and yellow flowers that grow in rather close leafy 

 clusters. 



Potentilla Hippiana, or Woolly Cinquefoil, is a stout 

 plant, with quantities of densely floccose and silky foliage. 

 The leaflets are whitish and woolly on both sides, and deeply 



