POPULAR FLORA. 149 
Avens. Geum. 
Calyx bell-shaped or flattish, 5-cleft, and with 5 additional little lobes between. Petals 5. Stamens 
‘many. Pistils many in a head, making akenes, which are tipped with the style, remaining as a long, 
naked or hairy tail. Perennial herbs: flowers single or somewhat corymbed.— In all our common 
species the style is jointed and hooked round in the middle. 
* Upper and mostly hairy joint of the style falling off, leaving the lower and smooth portion, which 
remains hooked at the end: flowers rather small: root-leaves mostly interruptedly pinnate; stem- 
leaves or lobes 3 to 5. Dry woods and fields. 
1. Wuire Avens. Smoothish or downy; petals white, as long as the calyx, akenes bristly. @. album. 
2. Virerntan A.  Bristly-hairy, stouter than the last; petals greenish-white, shorter than the calyx; 
akenes smooth. G. Virginianum. 
8. YeLLow A. Rather hairy, large; petals yellow, longer than the calyx. G. strictum. 
* * Upper joint of the style persistent and feathered with long hairs; flowers rather large, nodding. 
4. WaTtER A. Root-leaves with a large and rounded-lobed end-leaflet, and some very small ones 
below; stem-leaves few, 3-cleft or, of 3 small leaflets; petals not spreading, somewhat notched at 
the broad summit, purplish. — Wet banks of streams. G. rivale. 
Cinquefoil. Potentilla. 
Calyx open or flat, 5-parted, and with 5 additional outside lobes aJternate with the others, making 
10. Petals 5. Stamens many. Pistils many in a head, on a dry receptacle, making seed-like akenes, 
the styles falling off. 
% Leaves palmate. Herbs, with yellow flowers. 
1. Norway Crxquerot.. Erect, coarse, hairy; leaflets 3, obovate, cut-toothed. Fields. P. Norvégica. 
2. CanaDA C. Runner-like stems decumbent or spreading; leaflets 5, obovate-oblong; peduncles long, 
axillary, 1-flowered. Fields and banks. sa P. Canadénsis. 
8. SttveRY C. Low, with spreading branches, white-woolly, as are the 5 leaflets beneath. P. argentea. 
* %* Leaves pinnate. Herbs (except No. 5): receptacle of the fruit hairy. 
4. SILVER-WEED. Creeping, sending up leaves of 9 to 19 cut-toothed leaflets, besides little ones inter- 
posed, silvery-white beneath, and single long-stalked yellow flowers. Wet banks, N. P. Anserina. 
5. SHruzsy C. Shrub very bushy, 2° to 4° high; leaflets 5 or 7, crowded near the end of the short 
footstalk, lance-oblong, entire, silky beneath; flowers yellow. Bogs. P. fruticosa. 
6. Marsu C. Stems ascending from a scaly creeping base; leaflets 5 or 7, crowded, serrate, lance- 
oblong; flowers dull purple. Cold bogs, N. P. palistris. 
Bramble. Rubus. 
Calyx open, deeply 5-cleft. Petals 5. Pistils many; their ovaries ripening”into little berry-like 
grains (or rather drupelets), making a kind of compound berry. — Rather shrubby or herbaceous pé- 
rennials. : 
§1. RASPBERRY. Fruit falling from the dry receptacle, usually with the grains lightly cohering.: 
* Leaves simple, lobed: flowers large and showy: petals spreading. 
1. PurrL# Frowenrinc-Raspserry. Bristly and clammy with odorous brownish glands ; leaves 
rounded, with 8 or 5 pojnted lobes; flowers in a corymb, rose-purple; fruit flat. Rocky banka, 
N. Fi. summer. R. odoratus. 
2. Wurre FLowErina-R. Like No.1, but the flowers white and smaller. N. W. & cult. R. Nutkanus, 
