ROSE FAMILY. Rosaceas 



The silverweed is decoratively beautiful, 

 Silverweed , . , , . -n 



Potentilla a ls rem a r kable for its very silky hairs 



Anserina which cover the under side of the leaves ; 



Yellow the latter are tansylike with about 7-23 



Ma y~ sharp-toothed leaflets. The yellow flowers 



are solitary. Stem 1-3 feet long. In salt 

 marshes and on wet meadows, from Me., south to N. J., 

 and west to Neb. Common on the beaches of Lake 

 Champlain. 



The commonest of all the five-fingers, 

 Cinque"<^* r * ^ en wrongly called wild strawberry, 

 Potentilla with pure yellow flowers about | inch 



simplex broad. It decorates meadow and pasture, 



Yellow fertile and sterile grounds, and weaves its 



April-August ^kro^ery over tne stony and barren 

 roadside. Its five deep green, shiny, long-stalked leaf- 

 lets are sharply toothed, firm, and smooth, altogether 

 harder in character than the three strawberry leaflets. 

 The whole plant is g'enerally smooth, but sometimes 

 thinly hairy. Flowers solitary, fertilized mostly by the 

 flies of the genus Syrphidce. Runners 6-20 inches long. 

 Common everywhere in the north. From southern 

 Me. , N. H. , Vt. , and N. Y. , west to Minn. The common 

 similar form (or species) is Potentilla Canadensis, which 

 is fine- woolly over the stems, and does not creep over 

 the ground so characteristically as P. simplex. 



A most common weed with a glandular- 

 ^"imonia hairy simple stem, and compound leaves 

 Eupatoria with a hairy stalk ; spicy odored when 

 var. Mrsuta crushed. The usually seven bright green, 

 Yellow many - ribbed ovate leaflets coarsely 



ugus toothed ; the interposed tiny leaflets are 

 ovate and toothed ; there are generally three pairs 

 occupying the spaces between the larger lateral leaflets. 

 The slender spikes of five-petaled yellow flowers with 

 orange anthers are not showy. The seeds are sticky and 

 adhere to one's clothing. 2-4 feet or more high. Com- 

 mon on the borders of woods and in thickets. Me., 

 south to N. Car., and west. Found on the roadside near 

 the Profile House, Franconia Notch, N. H. 



