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POTENTILLA REPTANS. 



Common Creeping Cinquefoil. 



Class XII. IcosANDRiA. — Order III. Polygynia. 

 Nat. Ord. RosACEiE. 



Gen. Char. Calyx ten-cleft, segments alternately smaller. 

 Petals five. Fruit consisting of numerous minute 

 grains or nuts placed upon a small dry receptacle. 



Spec. Char. Stem filiform, creeping. Leaves quinate ; 

 leaflets obovate, approaching to wedge-shaped, serrated. 

 Peduncles axillaiy, single-flowered. 



S Y N O N Y M E S. 



Greek cnvra^uXXan. 



f Quinquefolium majus repens. Bauh. Pin, 325. 



I Quinquefolium vulgare. Ger. Em. 987- 

 Latin ■{ Pentaphyllura vulgatissimiim. Rait. Syn. 255. 



I Fragaria foliis quinatis, &c. Hall. Stirp. Helv. n. 1118. 



l^Potentilla reptans. Lin. Sp. PI. ^l4•, Eng. Bot. t. 862. 



French. Quinte-feuille. 



Italian Cinquefoglie. 



Spanish and j Q^inquefolio; Cinco en rama. 



Portuguese . . ' 



German FUnffingerkraut ; Handblatt. 



Dutch Vyfvingerkruid. 



Danish Femfiugerert. 



Polish ...... Pieciornik. 



Swedish Femfingeroert. 



Russ Schabnik. 



Description. — The root is perennial, long, tapering, cylindri- 

 cal, with but few fibres, externally of a yellowish or reddish 

 brown colour. The stems are numerous, slender, long, pro- 



