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underneath; flowers cymose-clnstered ; petals yellowish or whitish ; disk thick and 

 glandular. — Eocky hills : common northward and westward. July. 



» » Achenia (at least bdow) and the convex receptacle villous. 



8. P. Anserlna, L. (Silver-Weed.) Herhaceons, creepinff ivith slender 

 runners; leaves ail radical, pinnate; leaflets 9-19, with minute pairs interposed, 

 oblong, pinnatifid-serrate, mostly green and nearly smooth above, silvery-white 

 ■with silky down underneath; stipules many-cleft; flowers solitary [yellow), on long 

 scape-like peduncles. — Brackish marshes, river-banks, &c., New England to 

 Penn., Wisconsin, and northward. June- Sept. (Eu.) 



9. P. frutiebsa, L. (Shkubet Cinque-foil.) Stem erect, s/ire% (2° - 

 4° high), very much branched ; leaves pinnate; leaflets 5-7, closely crowded, 

 oblong-lanceolate, entire, sUky, especially beneath ; stipules scale-like ; flowers 

 numerous (yellow), terminating the branchlets. — Wet grounds : common north- 

 wards. June -Sept. (Eu.) 



10. P. trident&,ta, Ait. (Theeb-toothed C.) Stems low (4' -6' high), 

 rather woody at the base, tufted, ascending, cymosfily several-flowered ; leaves 

 palmate ; leaflets 3, wedge-oblong, nearly smooth, thick, coarsely 3-toothed at the 

 apex; petals white; achenia and receptacle very hairy. — Coast of New England, 

 from Cape Cod, and mountain-tops from the Alleghanies, northward : also 

 shores of the upper Great Lakes. June. 



§ 3. Styles moderately lateral: petals (sltorter than the calyx, ovate-lanceolate) and 

 fltaments more or less persistent : disk thick and hairy : achenia glabrous : recep- 

 tacle hairy, convex, at length large and spongy. (Comarum, L.} 



11. P. paliistrls, Scop. (Maksh Five-Fingek.) Stems ascending 

 from a creeping perennial base (1° -2° high) ; leaves pinnate, of 5 - 7 lanceolate 

 or oblong crowded serrate leaflets, whitish beneath ; flowers somewhat cymose ; 

 calyx (1' broad) dark purple inside ; petals purple. (Comarum palustre, L.) — 

 Cool bogs. New England to Pcnn., Illinois, and northward. June -Aug. (Eu.) 



12. PRAGAKIA, Toum. Steawbekkt. 



Flowers nearly as in Potentilla. Styles deeply lateral. Receptacle in fruit 

 much enlarged and conical, becoming pulpy and scarlet, bearing the minute dry 

 achenia scattered over its surface. — Stemless perer^ials, with runners, and with 

 white cymose flowers on scapes. Leaves radical : leaflets 3, obovate- wedge-form, 

 coarsely serrate. Stipules cohering with the base of the petioles, which with the 

 scapes are usually hairy. (Name from the fragrance of the fruit. ) — Flowering 

 in spring. (The species are indiscriminately called Wild Steawbeekt. ) 



1. P. Virgini&na, Ehrhart. Achenia inibedded in the deeply pitted fruiting 

 receptacle, which usually has a narrow neck ; calyx becoming erect after flower- 

 ing and connivent over the haiiy receptacle when sterile or unfi-uctified ; leaflets 

 of a firm or coriaceous texture. (F. Canadensis, Michx.) — Moist or rich wood- 

 lands, fields, &e. — In the true F. Virginiana, the hairs of the scapes, and es- 

 pecially of the pedicels, are sillcy and appressed. It is the original of the Vir- 

 ginian Scarlet strawberries. 



Var. Illino^nsis (F. Grayana, Vilmorin, F. Illinoensis & F. lowensis. 



