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stalked. Cyme so lax that the flowers often appear solitary and 

 opposite the leaves. Achenes finely tuberculate when dry. 



In hedge-banks, borders of fields, and woods. Not uncommon, 

 but much less frequent than P. eu-Tormentilla. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial, Summer and Autumn. 



Generally a much larger plant than the last, with a more 

 slender rootstock, and stems often 1 to 2 feet long. Leaflets 

 sometimes 1 or li inch long, broader than those of P. sylvestris, 

 and with a greater number of serratures. Stipules more often 

 elliptical and entire. Flowers considerably larger, f inch across, 

 in a less evident cyme, from the peduncles being further apart, 

 sometimes peiitamerous. 



P. mixta, Nolle (Koch, I. c. p. 239) is a puzzling plant, which is 

 sometimes confounded with the above. Professor Babington con- 

 siders it as a hybrid between P. Tormentilla and P. reptans, both of 

 which it resembles ; approaching the former in its rather small 

 tetramerous flowers, while it comes near the latter in the leaves 

 being stalked, with 5 oblanccolate rather finely serrated leaflets. 

 The stipules are entire, as in P. reptans, but much narrower 

 elliptical instead of ovate, resembling those of the upper leaves of 

 P. sylvestris, and those of most of the stem-leaves of P. nemoralis, 

 but it is more hairy than either of these forms. 



Creeping Tormentil. 



French, Potentille couchee. German, GestrecMer Ganserich. 



SPECIES VI.— POTEN TILL A REPTANS. Linn. 

 Plate CCCCXXXII. 



Hootstock slender. Lateral stems or runners elongated, pro- 

 cumbent, rooting at the nodes, simple. Leaves all similar, stalked, 

 digitate, with 5 oblanccolate leaflets ; leaflets rounded at the apex, 

 rather finely serrated or crenate. Stipules ovate, or ovate-elliptical, 

 entire. Flowers on long peduncles opposite the leaves, pentamerous. 

 The 5 outer calyx- segments resembling in shape and size the 5 

 inner. Petals much longer than the calyx, roundish - obovate, 

 notched. Receptacle hairy. Achenes glabrous, rough with small 

 points. 



In meadows, pastures, and by road-sides. Common in England 

 and the South of Scotland, but scarce beyond the Forth and Clyde, 

 though found as far North as Aberdeenshire and Argylcshire. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer and 



Autumn. 



