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hairs; /ecnvs of 3, or rarely 5, cuneate, lobed leaflets; caiiline 

 leaves sessile; siip^iles leafy, deeply cufr; Jlowers in corymbose 

 cymes, noL more than 5 111. across, yellow, usually with 4 sepals 

 and 4 petals. — Banks and heaths ; very common. I'l all the 

 summer, rcrennial. ; 



7. P. /;-rt7//;;/w/i- (Trailing Tormentil). -Avery closely allied 

 form, differing chiefly in a more prostrate habit, the catiline leaves 

 being stalked and \.\\& flcnvers being solitary, or nearly so, and 

 raiher larger. -Woods and banks ; comdiun. — Y\. June — August. 

 Perennial. 



lOTE.VTl'LL.'i .\N^ER|'n.\ a, id P. RErTAjN'P, 



S. P. replans (Creeping Cin.iuefoli).^.y('/7/ slender, eree]3ing, 

 uniting at the nodes; leaves quinate, stalked; /t'((/A'/.t obovate, 

 serrate, hairy ; Jlinvers solitary, about an inch across, yellow ; se(^als 

 and /(/((/i 5 each. — Meadows and waj-sides ; common. Hybrids 

 between lliis species and the two preceding occur. — Fl. lune — 

 August. Perennial. 



y. r. Aiiserina (Silver-weed, Goose-grass).— A familiar, easily 

 recoi^nisible plant, witli runners; leeeves interruptrdl) pinnate; 

 leaflcls di'cply serrate or [linn.Ltifid, densely silk\-, with white hairs 



