Rosaceae 159 



Smooth, decumbent at the base, 



Comarum 



palustre (L.) 6 inches to 2 feet long. Leaves 

 Marsh pinnate, the lower long-petioled 



CinquefoU. with 5 _ ? oblong or o blanceolate, 



sharply serrate leaflets, which are lighter- 

 coloured and more or less hairy beneath; 

 upper leaflets similar, 3^5. Flowers few, 

 in an open cyme; calyx lobes purple within, 

 acuminate, nearly J an inch long, enlarging 

 in fruit; petals much shorter than the sepals. 

 A marsh plant frequent throughout the 

 region in very wet situations, at the lower 

 altitudes ; flowering in July. 



Argentina Herbaceous, spreading by run- 

 Anserina ners. Leaves all at the root, 

 (L.) Rydb. interruptedly pinnate with 7-21 



Silver-weed. leaflets and smaller Qnes inter . 



posed; oblong, sharply serrate, dark green 

 above, soft, white-hairy beneath. Flowers 

 bright yellow, J-i inch broad, solitary on 

 long pedicels, petals exceeding the ovate, 

 acute, calyx lobes. 



In open and waste ground and meadows 



