434 ICOSANDRIA— POLYGYNIA. Comarum. 



In spongy muddy bogs and ditches. 



Perennial. June, July. 



Root creeping extensively^ with many long fibres. Stems ascend- 

 ing, round, reddish, leafy, downy and panicled in the upper 

 part, a foot or more in height. Lower leaves stalked, of 5, rarely 

 7, elliptic-oblong, acute, sharply and simply serrated leciflets : 

 downy and whitish, or glaucous, beneath ; upper ternate, nearly 

 sessile. Stipulas oblong, acute, cut, attached in pairs to each 

 footstalk. Fl. several, on panicled downy stalks, without scent, 

 but handsome, an inch broad, all over of a dark purplish blood- 

 colour, as well as the fruit. 



/3 has thicker more hairy leaves than ordinary, but is a trifling va- 

 riety. 



