Sibbdldia.'] 



XXVII. EOSACE^ : EOSE^. 



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I 



I 



tilla officinalis Z. ; E.B. t. 863.-/3. lower stem-leaves stalked 

 obtuse, stem prostrate sometimes rooting, flowers laro-er. Tor- 



mentilla reptans Z. ; i^ jB. t. 864. 



Moors and heathy places, frequent. 



6 — 8. 



p. Hedge-banks, borders of 

 To one or other of these vars. 



fields and waste places. %, 



obviously belongs P. mixta of Mitten. Root large and woody, used 

 medicinally, and by the Laplanders for staining leather of a red colour. 

 Peduncles axillary and terminal, forming a dichotomous cyme or 

 panicle, and never springing from a joint that throws out roots or 

 from the axile of a petiolate leaf. — This varies with 4 or 5 petah, 

 when it becomes difficult to distinguish the var. ^. from P. reptans, 

 and some botanists are of opinion that the two plants are identical' 

 their extremes being represented in E. Bot. P. reptans is often less 

 creeping than in E. B. t. 862; and the present is sometimes not so 

 pamcled as in & B. t. 864. Mr. Wilson finds them undistin^^uish- 

 able, whde Mr. Forster and Nestler think them quite distinct. "" 



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Leaves quinate or ternate. Flowers tvhite. 



10. P. "^dlba L. (white C) ; stems filiform procumbent, root- 

 leaves quinate, upper ones ternate, leaflets oblong with convercr- 

 ing serratures silky beneath, achenes glabrous. U. B, t. 1384. 



Wales (?) : Mr. Haviland {in Huds.). T}.. 

 receptacle shorter than the achenes. 



6, 7. — Hairs of the 



II. P. 



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) 



leaflets oblong-cuneiform 3-toothed at the extremity glabrous 

 above hairy beneath, petals oval longer than the calyx, achenes 

 downy, stem ascending. JE. B. t. 2389. 



On 



5, 6. 

 North 



Werron Hill, Clova, G. Don ; but found by no one 

 Hairs of the receptacle elongated in this and the 

 American species. 



else, 

 next 



A 



C.) 



ternate, leaflets obovate deeply serrate silky on both sides 

 fesT^PrMnll,. T.o.o„.T.^ ^„.„,. obcordate as long as the calyx, 



Fragaria sterilis L.: E. B. t. 1785. 



Calyx- 



beneath) 

 stems procumbent. 



Woods, banks, and dry pastures, frequent. %. 3—5 

 segmenU converging after flowering. Achenes glabrous. 



9. SiBBALDiA Linn. Sibbaldia. 



Cal. in 10 alternately large and small segments. Pet. 5 

 ^tamens 0— 10. %fc short, lateral. O/^M^e ascending. Achenes 

 oJ< ''^^IV'^'^ "^^ a minute dry receptacle (the bottom of the 

 nn Tf^'^rr??^ Siven in honour of Robert Sibhald, who wrote 

 on the ^at. History of Scotland about the latter end of the 17th 

 ^ntury, and who published a figure of our Scottish species of 



