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1. Many-leaved Pentaphylloides, 
Pentaphylloides fupinum potentille facie. 
The root is long and blackifh. It is divided 
into many heads, and fpreads under the furface. 
The leaves are very numerous. They ftand on 
footftalks two inches long, and are compofed of 
three or more pairs of fmaller leaves, with an odd 
one at the end, Thefe are oblong, narrow, 
fharply ferrated, and of a pale green. 
The ftalks are a foot and a half long, but 
weak and yellow. They are divided into many 
branches toward the top, and have the fame kind 
of leaves with thofe from the root, but fmaller 
and fewer ona footftalk. 
The flowers are moderately large, and yellow. 
They confift each of five leaves, and have a tuft 
of threads in the middle. : 
When thefe are fallen the feed fucceeds in a 
little naked clufter. 
Tt is a native of Germany, and flowers in 
July. 
J, Bauhine calls it Pentaphylloides Supinum. 
C. Bauhine, Quinguefolio Sragifero affinis, from 
the fmall heads of feed fomewhat refembling an 
unripe ftrawberry ;. but this is lefs than in many 
others, where it is not obferved. 
2. Silver-leaved ftrawbery Cinquefoil. 
Pentaphylloides argentum fragiferum. 
The root is long, thick, blackifh, and woody, 
and is well furnithed with fibres. 
The leaves are numerous. ‘Their foot- 
ftalks are an inch and a half long; and they are 
compofed each of nine parts, or divided into 
nine fegments, fo deep that they appear feparate. 
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Thefe are placed in four pairs, with an odd one 
at the end; and are narrow, longifh, and fer- 
rated very fharply. They are of a pale green, 
and hairy. In the fhape and difpofition of the di- 
vifions they much refemble the leaves of the com- 
mon filverweed. 
The ftalks are numerous, very fmall, and flen- 
der: They do not exceed four inches in length. 
They trail on the ground, and have the fame 
kind of leaves irregularly placed on them as thofe 
at the root. Toward the top they divide into 
little branches, and others rife from the bottoms 
of the leaves. : 
The flowers are fmall, but of a beautiful gold 
yellow. ‘They confift each of five leaves, and 
have a tuft of threads in the middle. 
The feeds ripen in a fmall head, and are co- 
vered in part by five of the fegments of the cup. 
This is frequent in Switzerland, and flowers 
in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Quinguefolio fimilis enneaphyl- 
Jos, and Parkinfon Exneaphyllon ; from its having 
nine leaves on a foottftalk. 
All thefe {pecies of pentaphyllcides, and thole of 
cinquefoil, agree in virtues as they do in their 
characters with the common cinquefoil of our fields. 
This their tafte manifefts. They have not been, 
feverally tried ; but there is not’one whofe root 
does not poffefs a ftrong aftringency. Perhaps 
in this, as in many other cafes, we do wrong 
in confining our trials to fome one {pecies. Others 
may have greater virtues in the fame way than 
that commonly ufed. We fee this in mint; only 
one {pecies of which was regarded in medicine of 
a long time, but another has fince been introdu- 
ced; and many others deferye to be fo. 
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SILVERWEED. 
“ARGENTINA 
EIE leaves of filverweed are pinnated, and the ftalks creep and take root at the joints. The 
flowers and feeds agree with thofe of cinquefoil. 
nus; that author ranking this plant, 
potentilla, 
Of this genus there is but one known fpecies, 
Common Silverweed. 
Argentina vulgaris. 
The root confifts of a {mall head, and a vaft 
multitude of fibres. It is of a deep brown, and 
has an auftere tafte. 
The leaves rife in great numbers. They ftand 
on fhort pedicles, and are very beautifully pin- 
nated, each confifting of feven or eight pairs of 
fmall leaves on a ftalk, and an odd one at the 
end. Thefe are oblong, narrow, deeply ferrated 
at the edges, and obtufe at the ends. 
The ftalks refemble thofe of cinquefoil. They 
arélong, weak, red, and lie upon the ground, 
» taking root at the joints. From thefe places rife 
alfo new clufters of leaves, 
The flowers ftand on long naked footftalks ri- 
fing from the bofoms of the leaves ; and they are 
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Cinquefoil, and pentaphylloides, 
This is one of the icofandria polyandria of Lin- 
together under the name of 
and that is a common wild plant. 
very large and beautiful. 
They are compofed 
each of five petals, 
of a roundith figure, not 
dented at the tops: and are of a moft beautiful . 
fhining yellow : in the middle of each there is a 
tuft of threads, with yellow buttons; but fmaller 
than in cinquefoil, and of a paler yellow. 
The feeds are {mall ; they grow in a roundifh 
head, and are defended by five of the ten feg- 
ments of the cup which clo over them. Thefe 
are hairy, and pointed. Nature in this, as in 
other plants that run fo quick at the ftalk, takes 
lefs care in ripening the feed, 
It is frequent in barren Places, and flowers in 
June. 
The root poffeffes the Sreateft virtue, and it de- 
fetves to be much more known in medicine than 
it is. 
It 
