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Pentaphyllum eredum foliis profunds fedis fubtus 
argenteis flore luteo. J. B. 2. 35)8. R. Syn. 
P- * 55 - 
‘Torment’d Cinquejoil. 
On dry mountainous paftures, efpecially in a 
Tandy foil, flowering in July. Upon the old walls 
about Buddon Wood near Mountforrel. Upon 
Cotgrave and Stanton wolds, Nottinghamflhire. 
Tormentilla, Gen. Plant. N°. 56a. 
Tormentilla caule repente, Sp. Plant, p. 500. 
Tormentilla reptans. Petiv. Herb, Britan. Tab. 
xl 1. Fig. 10. R. Syn. p. 257. 
Creeping ‘Tormentil with deeply indented leaves. 
In the Radmoor doles, between Loughborough 
and Burley-hall. 
The common Tormentil is fo very frequently 
found in a procumbent date, that perfons not much 
acquainted with plants, might eafily miftake it 
for this fpecies, without fome other diftindive 
note : hence we wonder, that Linnarus did not 
form his fpecific names of thefe two plants rather 
from their cauline leaves, than from their manner 
of growing; thofe of the common Tormentil being 
generally quite feflile, or clofe to the ftalk ; whereas 
thofe of this fpecies are conftantly petiolated. The 
former might then have been called — Tormentilla 
foliis caulinisfeflilibus, and the latter — Tormentilla 
foliis caulinis petiolatis. The diftindion from their 
manner of growing might have been added too ; but 
it would be almoA needlefs, and therefore contrary 
to our illuftrious author’s own rule in the Funda- 
menta Botanica, N y ,29i. 
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