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THE ROSE FAMILY. 



about 3 lines long, curved downwards, 

 with a minute hook at the tip. 



Under hedges, on roadsides, banks, 

 and margins of woods, common in the 

 greater part of Europe and Russian and 

 central Asia, but not a high northern 

 plant, and only as an introduced plant 

 in North America. Abundant in Eng- 

 land, Ireland, and southern Scotland, 

 but apparently becoming scarce towards 

 the north. 



Fig. 299. 



2. Water Avens. Geum rivale, Linn. (Eig. 300.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 106.) 



Rootstock often shortly creeping. 

 Stems erect or ascending, usually simple, 

 shorter than in the common A. Leaves 

 mostly radical, with one large, orbicular, 

 terminal segment, coarsely toothed or 

 lobed, or sometimes divided into 3, and a 

 few very small segments lower down 

 the stalk, all more hairy than in the 

 common A. Elowers few, drooping, 

 much larger than in the common A. ; the 

 petals less spreading, of a dull-purplish 

 colour, with a tint of orange. Carpels 

 very hairy, in a globular head, which is 

 shortly stalked above the calyx. 



In marshes and wet ditches, in Eu- 

 rope, Russian Asia, and northern Ame- 

 rica, extending into the Arctic regions, 

 and almost confined to mountainous dis- 

 tricts in southern Europe. Common in northern England, Scotland, 

 and Ireland, but rare in southern England. FL summer. Where this 

 and the common A. grow together, specimens are occasionally found 



Fig. 300. 





