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A GUIDE TO THE WILD FLOWERS 



Flowers solitary, yellow, about Ys in. wide. Confined to 

 alpine summits of the White Mountains. August. 



362. Silvery Cinquefoil. Potcntilla argentea. A weedy, 

 nearly prostrate plant of fields and roadsides with foliage 

 silvery beneath. Leaves with five, toothed, and deeply cleft 

 leaflets, all arranged finger-fashion. Flowers few, in a loose 

 open terminal cluster, about ^4 ^^- wide. Nova Scotia and 

 Ontario to Dist. of Columbia, and westward. May-Sept. Fig. 

 362. 



363. Mock Strawberry. Duchcsnea indica. A prostrate herb, 

 often rooting at the joints, and much reseml)ling the straw- 

 berry. Leaflets 3, toothed but not cleft, silky-hairy, but not 

 silvery. Flowers solitary at the leaf-joints, yellow, about ^ 

 in. broad. Fruit suggesting a strawberry, but dry and inedible. 

 In waste places from N. Y. to Florida, and westward. Native 

 of India. April-July. 



364. Cinquefoil. Potentilla canadensis. A weak trailing herb 

 with 5 leaflets to each leaf, all toothed and the stalklets aris- 

 ing at the same point. Flowers i or a few together, arising 

 from the leaf joints, yellow, about }4 in. broad. Fruit dry 

 and inedible. In dry places. New Brunswick to Georgia, and 

 westward. April-August. Fig. 364. There are two other 

 closely related species all sometimes mistaken for the wild 

 strawberry, but diflfering in the yellow flower, and dry fruits. 



365. Barren Strawberry. Potentilla monspelicnsis. A stout, 

 stiff branched rough-hairy herb usually 12-18 in. high. Leaf- 



