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hairs ; leaves of 3, or rarely 5, cuneate, lobed leaflets ; cauline 

 leaves sessile ; stipules leafy, deeply cut ; flowers in corymbose 

 cymes, not more than \ in. across, yellow, usually with 4 sepals 

 and 4 petals. — Banks and heaths ; very common. — Ft all the 

 summer. Perennial. 



7. P. procumbens (Trailing Tormentil). — A very closely allied 

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

 being stalked and the. flowers being solitary, or nearly so, and 

 rather larger. — Woods and banks ; common. — Fl. June — August. 

 Perennial. 



' rOTEXTfLLA ANSERfN'A atui T. REPTANS. 



8. P. reptans (Creeping Cinquefoil). — Stem slender, creeping, 

 rooting at the nodes ; leaves quinate, stalked ; leaflets obovate, 

 serrate, hairy ; flowers solitary, about an inch across, yellow ; sepals 

 and petals 5 each. — Meadows and waysides ; common. Hybrids 

 between this species and the two preceding occur. — Fl. June — 

 August. Perennial. 



9. P. Anserina (Silver-weed, Goose-grass). — A familiar, easily 

 recognisable plant, with runners ; leaves interruptedly pinnate ; 

 leaflets deeply serrate or pinnatifid, densely silky, with white hairs 



