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'ieven (feldom five) oblong lobes ; dlfpofed irt a man- 
ner, that three feeni to rife from one center, and four . 
from another : The flowers are yellow, large, penta- 
petalous, and have flender origins •, fo that they foon » 
fall off, and new ones as foon fucceed during the; 
whole fummer : The empalement confifls of five 
(feldom fix) woolly-pointed leaves, with the fame f 
number of fmaller ones intermix’d. It has no feeds ! 
confpicuous when the flowers are gone off, but a 
little fhort down amongfl: many chives : The flalk 
cafts its cuticle, or external bark, every year or 
oftener *, fo that one may fee fix, or it may be ten 
remnants of it, at the fame time on the fame ftalk. 
On the fouth bank of the river "Tees^ below Thorp in 
feveral places, and below Egglefione abbey in Tork- ' 
{hire •, and by Mickle-Force in Teafdale. 
* 5. Pentaphylloides argentina di 5 la. Argentina^'R, 
G. 841. Potentilla^ P.593. C. 321. Wild 
Tanfey Silverweed. The leaves refemble thofe of 
Agrimony. 
6. Pentaphylloides pumila foliis ternis ad extremis 
tat is trijides^ R. 256. 
The leaves of Silverweed are accounted good to flop all kinds 
of fluxes, to diffolve coagulated blood, and to help thofe that arc 
bruifed by falls. Outwardly, it is ufed to take off freckles, fun- 
burn, and morphew j as alio in reftringent gargarifms. 
Tormentilla, Tormentil. The flower confifls 
of four petals placed orbicularly : The empale- 
ment is divided into feveral fegments, and fhap’d 
like a bafon : The fruit fpherical, in which many 
feeds are gathered into a kind of head, covered 
with the empalement. To thefe notes rnuft be 
added more leaves than three on the top of the 
pedicle. The fpecies are : 
I. Tormentilla^ R. 257. G. 840. vulgaris^ P. 
394. Sylvejtris^ C. 326. Tormentil, Septfoil. In 
paflures and mountainous places. 
2. Tor- 
