CLXXVIL 

 POTENTILLA TORMENTILLA. 



Tormentil. 



Class XII. Icosandria. — Order III. Polvgynia. 

 Nat. Ord. Rosacea. 



Gen. Char. Calyx eight or ten cleft, segments alter- 

 nately smaller. Petals four or five. Fruit consisting 

 of numerous minute nuts, placed on a small dry recep- 

 tacle. 



Spec. Char. Calyx eight-cleft. Petals four. Leaves 

 ternate; leaflets elliptical-lanceolate, inciso-serrate. 

 Stem ascending, dichotomous. 



SYNONYMES. 



f Tormentilla sylvestris. Bauh. Pin. 326. 



j Tormentilla. Ger. Em. 992. Raii Syn. 257- 



Septifolium sive Tormentilla. Ftwhs. Hist. 200. 



Tormentilla erecta. Lin. Sp. PL 716. 



Tormentilla officinalis. Curt. Lond. t. 337- Eng. Bot. t. 863. 



Potentilla Tormentilla. Sibth. 162. Netl. pot. 65. 

 French .... Tormentille. 

 Ital.QPort. Tormentilla. 

 Spanish . . . Tormentila. 

 German... Tormentill; Blutwurz ; Rurhrwurz; Sieben fingerkraut. 



Dutch Tormentille ; Zevenblad. 



Danish .... Tormentil. 

 Swedish . . Blodrot. 



Polish Kurze ziele. 



Russ Sabiasnoi koren. 



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Description. — The root is perennial, thick, roundish, irregu- 

 lar, knobbed, woody, fibrous, dark brown externally, reddish 

 within. The stems are numerous, ascending, sometimes pro- 



