ROSE FAMILY 



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hairy plant, 1 — 2 feet high; radical leaves pinnate; cauline leaves 

 ternate ; stipules leafy, rounded and cut ; flowers erect, \ — f in. 

 across, yellow ; upper joint of the stiff persistent style shorter, 

 smooth. — Hedges and thickets ; common. — Fl. June — August. 

 Perennial. 



2. G. rivdle (Water Avens). — A handsome plant, stouter and 

 more hairy than the preceding, differing in having smaller stipules ; 

 drooping flowers x 1 — i L in. across; reddish-brown sepals; obcord- 



GAifM urbXnum (Common Avens, Herb Benet). 



ate, yellow, pink-tinged, veined petals; a stalk or carpophore 

 below the fruit ; and the two joints of the persistent style equal 

 and hairy. — Damp places ; not uncommon. — Fl. May — July. 

 Perennial. 



G. intermedium, partaking of the characters of both the above 

 species, is probably a hybrid between them. 



6. Fragaria (Strawberry). — Herbs with runners ; leaves 

 generally ternate ; stipules adnate to the petiole ; sepals 5, 

 persistent, with an epicalyx of 5 bracteoles, valvate ; petals 5 ; 

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