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i^ommon Strawberry ; and die fruit refembles that ^ 
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Pe i>fTAPHYLLUM. The leaves grow more than I 
three together on the tops of the pedicles : The | 
flower is tctrapetalous, and fometimes pentageta- 
lous, expanded in the form of a Rofe : The fruit 
is hemifpherical, where the feeds are gathered 
into a kind of head wrapt up in the empalement, 
which is monophyllous, and divided into eight 
or ten. The fpecies are : 
^ I. Fentaphyllum vulgatijfmum^ R. 255. P. 398. 
^^in^uefolium majus^ G. 836. Majus repens ^ C. 
325. Common Cinquefoil, or Five-leav’d Grafs. 
The leaves grow by fives, are nervous, deeply 
ferrated, hairy, and of a dark green : The flower B 
confifts of five petals, fhap’d lilce a heart, with a I 
great many chives. It creeps like the Stawberry. I 
2. Fentaphyllum ere^lum, foliis prof unde fe^is^ I 
fubtus argenteis^ flore luteoy R. 255. Re 5 tum minus ^ 1 
P.400, ^inquefolium folio argenteo^Q, ^2^. ^in- 1 
quefolium ^ormentilU facie^ G. 838. Tormentil j 
Cinquefoil. ' 
3. Fentaphyllum parvum hirfutum^ R. 255. Mi-- 1 
%us repens lanuginofum^ P. 399. ^inquefolium mi^ ; . 
nus repens aureum^ C. 325. Fentaphyllum incanum j 1 
minus repens ^ G. E. 989. Small rough Cinquefoil. ' 
4. Fentaphyllum aureum mhius^ fylvaticum^ nofir as^ j \ 
foliis tripartito divifts ex cauliculorum geniculis ra- i 
dicefcens^ R. 255. The Lcfler Golden Cinquefoil 
of our own country, with leaves growing from the (' 
joints of the ftalks, each divided into three feg- 
ments. < 
A gargarifm, made of the deco£Hon of this plan^ cures the I ^ 
ulcers of tne mouth, and the dileafes of the throat. 
Pentaphylloides. Its leaves are unequally pen* il 
nated : The flower confifis of five petals, ex? ‘ j 
pan(^d in ^ form of a Rofe, fucceeded by j 
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