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lets 3, toothed. Flowers in a leafy terminal branched cluster, 

 yellow, about Yi in. across. Fruit dry. In dry places. New- 

 foundland and Labrador to So. Carolina, and westward. Also 

 in tropical America, Europe and Asia. June-Sept. 



366. CiNQUEFOiL. Potcntilla recta. Resenjbling the preceding, 

 but with 5 or more leaflets. In waste places. Maine and On- 

 tario to Virginia and Michigan. Native of Europe. June- 

 Sept. Fig. 366. 



367. Silver Weed. Argentina Anserina. (Potcntilla Anscr- 

 ina. ) A salt marsh herb, sometimes ascending into fresh water 

 marshes. Plant not quite erect, often rooting at the joints. 

 Leaves compound, the 9-25 leaflets all in opposite pairs, with 

 an odd terminal one, toothed, stalkless, and silvery beneath. 

 Flowers solitary, long-stalked, yellow, about }i in. wide. 

 Fruit dry. From Greenland to N. J., and westward, where 

 the typical salt marsh sort is replaced by closely related forms. 

 May- Sept. 



368. Yellow Avens. Geum strictum. With superficial re- 

 semblance to related white-flowered form (see Fig. 342), 

 but with yellow flowers. In moist places. Newfoundland to 

 Penn., and westward. July. 



369. Agrimony. Agrimonia striata. A coarse stout rough- 

 hairy herb 1-2 ft. tall and usually much branched. Stem 

 leaves with 7 or 9 coarsely toothed leaflets in opposite pairs, 

 often with smaller leaflets interspersed. Flowers about ^4 ^^- 



