Th BRITISH HERBAL. 3 
Tt is a native of Italy, and flowers and bears its 
fruit there fomewhat earlier than our /trawberry. 
Zanoni calls this Fragaria arborea flore herbaceo: 
Morifon, Frogaria major vefca flore herbaceo. 
The fruit of the garden ftrawberry is cooling 
and when eaten in any quantity, wine and fugar 
are proper additions. 
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The leaves are cooling and diuretick, An in 
fufion of them is good in ftranguries ; and, when 
made ftronger, in the jaundice. Powdered, they 
are ufeful in dyfenteries ; anda decoétion of them 
fweetened with honey, is an excellent gargle for 
fore throats. . They have the credit alfo, of being 
a cofmetick ; but for that there is no great 
authority. 
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CINQUEFOIL. 
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Inquefoil has five leaves on every footftalk, and five petals in each flower. The feeds ftand 
in a fmall button; and the cup is divided into ten unequal fegments. 
Linnzus places this among his icofandria polyginia s the threads being about twenty in each flower, 
and growing to the infide of the cup or the petals ; and the ftyles, from the rudiments of the feeds, 
numerous. 
D PVE § VON CL “CB RY et sete Sub eb Galabes, 
1. Common Cinquefoil. 
Pentaphyllum vulgare. 
The root is long, thick, and brown. 
The leaves ftand five on each footftalk, and are 
oblong, hairy, and of a dufky green, ferrated at 
the edges, and rounded or blunt at the ends: the 
footftalks are flender, and three inches long. 
The main ftalks of the plant are long, very 
weak, and creeping. From the bottoms of the 
leaves rife flender pedicles, each fuftaining a 
fingle flower. This is large, of a bright yellow, 
compofed of roundifh leaves, heart-fafhioned at 
the ends, with a great clufter of fhort threads 
in the centre, and it ftands in a cup formed of 
one leaf and divided into ten parts at the edge. 
When the flower is fallen the feeds ripen in 
a little clufter, which is defended by five fegments 
of the cup clofing about it; the fame five clofe 
about the flower while in the bud. 
The long creeping ftalks take root at the joints, 
whence leaves alfo arife, and the plant thus pro- 
pagates itfelf abundantly. 
Je is frequent by way fides, and flowers in June. 
The’ root is aftringent: its outer rind is the 
moft valuable part, and it is beft given in pow- 
der, twelve grains for a dofe. It thus ftops purg- 
ings, and is good’ in hemorrhages of all kinds, 
particularly the overflowings of the menfes, and 
{pitting of blood. 
Ina larger dofe it will often cure intermittent 
Fevers, 
A ftrong decoétion of it is alfo good for fore 
mouths. 
J. Bavhine calls this Pentaphyllum vulgare repens. 
C. Bauhine, Quinquefolium majus repens. 
2. Silver-leaved Cinquefoil. 
Pentaphylium ereétum foliis fubtus argenteis. 
The root is large, thick, and woody, brown 
en the outfide, and white within: it divides into 
many heads, and has feveral fibres. 
The ftalks are numerous, firm, upright, hairy, 
and fix inches high. 
The leayes ftand alternately: they have longifh 
footftalks, at the bafe of which there is a little 
appendage furrounding the ftalk: they are deeply 
divided at the edges into five large, but irregular’ 
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parts, and are of a dufky green above, and white 
underneath, 
The flowers are fmall, and of a bright yellow: 
‘They are compofed each of five petals, with a 
large tuft of threads in the centre. 
The feed is ripened in fmall clufters, Five of 
the ten fegments of the cup in this, as the others, 
furround firft the bud of the flower, and after- 
wards the clufter of feeds. , 
Itis commen in dry barren places, and flowers 
in June. 
Its virtues have not been try’d, they are pro- 
bably the fame with thofe of the other, but in a 
lefs degree. 
J. Bauhine calls this Pentaphyllum erefium foliis 
profunde feétis fubtus argenteis flore luteo. C. Bau- 
hine, Quinquefolium foho argenteo. 
3. Little rough Cinquefoil, 
Pentaphyllum parvum birfutrum: 
The root is long, thick, and black. 
The leaves that rife from it are fmall, five on 
each footftalk, and hairy: they are of a dufky _ 
green, and deeply ferrated : the footitalks that 
bear them are about two inches long. 
The main ftalks rife among thefe. They are 
flender, hairy, and of a redifh colour, and lic 
fcattered on the ground. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the branches, 
and are large, and of a beautiful yellow. 
Tt grows in dry paftures, but is not frequent: 
I have feen it near Loughborough. It flowers in 
June. 
J. Bauhine calls this Pentaphyllum parvum bir- 
futunm. C.Bauhine, Quinguefolium minus repens 
aureum. 
4. Three-fingered Cinquefoil. 
Pentaphyllum minus repens foliis tripartitis. 
The root is fmall and long; it is brown on the 
outfide, and has many fibres. 
The leaves ftand on footftalks, which are flen- 
der, weak, and redifh, They have three principal 
divifions, and two fmaller ; appearing to be com- 
pofed of five leaves thus irregular in their fize. 
The ftalks run upon the ground and root at 
the joints, as in the common cinquefoil. 
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