ROSE FAMILY. Rosaces 



The silverweed is decoratively beautiful, 



Potentilla an( ^ * s remar ^able for its very silky hairs 



Anserina which cover the under side of the leaves ; 



Yellow the latter are tansylike with about 7-23 



sharp-toothed leaflets. The yellow flowers 



are solitary. Stem 1-3 feet long. In salt 



marshes and on wet meadows, from Me., south to N. J., 



and west to Neb. Common on the beaches of Lake 



Champlain. 



The commonest of all the five-fingers, 

 ^ en wrongly called wild strawberry, 

 Potentilla with pure yellow flowers about -| inch 



canadensis broad. It decorates meadow and pasture, 

 var. simplex fertile and sterile grounds, and weaves its 

 April-August , . , ^, 



embroidery over the stony and barren 



roadside. Its five deep green, shiny, long-stalked leaf- 

 lets are sharply toothed, firm, and smooth, altogether 

 harder in character than the three strawberry leaflets. 

 The whole plant is generally smooth, but sometimes 

 thinly hairy. Flowers solitary, fertilized mostly by the 

 flies of the genus Syrphidce. Runners 6-20 inches long. 

 Common everywhere in the north. From southern 

 Me., N. H., Vt., and N. Y., west to Minn. The common 

 similar form (or species) is Potentilla Canadensis, which 

 is fine- woolly over the stems, and does not creep over 

 the ground so characteristically as the var. simplex. 

 Agrimony ^ most common weed with a glandular- 



Agrimonia hairy simple stem, and compound leaves 



Gryposepala with a hairy stalk ; spicy-odored when 

 Yellow crushed. The usually seven bright green, 



June-August many . ribbed ovate i ea fl e ts coarsely 

 toothed ; the interposed tiny leaflets are ovate and 

 toothed ; there are generally three pairs occupying the 

 spaces between the larger lateral leaflets. The slender 

 spikes of five-petaled yellow flowers with orange anthers 

 are not showy. The seeds are sticky and adhere to one's 

 clothing. 2-4 feet or more high*. Common on the borders 

 of woods and in thickets. Me., south to N. Car., and 

 west. Found on the roadside near the Profile House, 

 Franconia Notch, N. H. 



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