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Stem round, creeping along the ground, and budding into new 

 plants at intervals, as in the Strawberry. Leaves pinnate, of 

 four or five pair of large leaflets, and as many smaller ones 

 between them, all serrate, and white with silvery hairs. One or 

 two flowers, each on its own stem, large, and of a fine dark 

 yellow, growing from every tuft of leaves. Calyx of ten clefts > 

 five of them entire, and the others notched. 



HOARY CINQUE -FOIL. Potentilla argentea. 



Plate 7, fig. 5. 



Leaves five-lobed. Stem upright. Flowers in clusters, yellow. 

 Very often met with in gravelly and chalky soils, but not in 

 other places ; thus it is a common plant around London, and 

 in the East and South of the Kingdom only. The leaves are 

 five -fingered or digitate ; each lobe deeply gashed, alternate in 

 position, quite white underneath, and dark green. at top the 

 upper leaves sessile, with two ^mall bracts at their base the 

 lower stalked. Stem hairy, erect in growth, and near the top 

 dividing at every joint into various bunches of flowers. Calyx 

 white and silky as the stem, of ten divisions, all entire, but five 

 of them smaller than the others. Petals small, and somewhat 

 heart-shaped. 



COMMON CREEPING CINQUE -FOIL. Potentilla reptans. 



Plate 7, fig. 6. 

 Leaves five-lobed. Stem trailing. Flowers solitary, yellow. 



On pastures and way-sides, abundant everywhere in June 

 and July, and distinguished by its serrated, five-lobed, long 

 stalked leaves by its long creeping stem, which takes root at 

 the various joints, and by its solitary yellow flowers. It most 

 resembles in appearance the next genus, the Tormentil but 

 this has a ten -cleft calyx and five petals, while the calyx of the 

 Tormentil is eight-cleft, and with but four petals. 



STRAWBERRY-LEAVED CINQUE-FOIL. P. fragariastrum. 



Plate 7, fig. 7. 



Leaves three-lobed. Stem creeping. Fl. few together, white. 



This used to be called the Barren Strawberry ; and it very 



much resembles the Wood Strawberry in appearance, except 



