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Mountain Avens. High mountains, (chiefly in micaceous or calcareous 
soil. E.) On those between Gort and Galloway, and near Sligo, in Ire¬ 
land ; and on those in Breadalbane, Isle of Skye, Ross-shire, Suther¬ 
land, and Argyleshire. Ray, and Messrs. Stuart and Lightfoot. On 
Arncliff Clowder, in Littendale, near Kilnsay, Yorkshire. Curtis. Near 
Settle. Dr. Fell. (Near the Black Ark, on Cronkley Fell, Teesdale. Mr. 
Winch. E.) P. June—Aug. 
CO'MARUM.* Cal. ten-cleft, permanent; segments alter¬ 
nately smaller: Petals five : Seeds naked, smooth: Re¬ 
ceptacle globular, spongy, hairy, permanent. 
C. palus'tre. 
Dicks. If. S.—Kniph. 9—FI. Dan. 636— E. Bot. 172— Ger. 836. 4 —J. B. 
ii. 398. c. 2— Dod. 117. 2— Lob. Ic. 691. I—Ger. Em. 987. 4. 
{Stems about a foot in height, often tinged with red, decumbent at the base, 
cylindrical, smooth, leafy. Leaves on long leaf-stalks, of three, five, and 
seven leajits , oblong, serrated, hoary underneath, sometimes, though 
rarely, thicker and villose. The calyx, petals, stamens, styles, and recep¬ 
tacles of a dark red purple, approaching to blackness. Flowers few, 
panicled, an inch over. Petals considerably smaller than the spreading 
calyx. E.) 
Marsh Cinquefoil. Purple Marsiilocks. (Welsh: Llygad, ysgyf- 
arnog. E.) Muddy stagnant marshes. Giggleswick Tarn, near Settle. 
Curtis. Marl-pits near Dalton. Mr. Atkinson. Norfolk, not unfrequent. 
Mr. Woodward. Boggy places near Bromsgrove Lickey, Worcester¬ 
shire. Nash. Bogs in the county of Durham, frequent. Mr. Robson. 
(Bootle Marsh, near Liverpool. Dr. Bostock. Coleshill Bog, Warwick¬ 
shire. Purton. In the bogs of Bin’s pond, Selborne. White’s Nat. Hist. 
In Anglesey. Welsh Bot. Frequent in Scotland; Duddingston loch, 
Pentland hills, &c. Dr. Greville. South-west side of Edgbaston pool, 
near Birmingham. E.) P. June—July.f 
Yar. 2. Differs only in the leaves being hairy, which hairiness also it loses 
in the following year. Linn. 
Pluk. 212. 2— Pet. 41. 2. 
* (From Koyapos, an ancient name given by Theophrastus to an evergreen tree, and not 
now rightly understood. E.) 
The root dyes a dirty red. The Irish rub their milking pails with it, to make the milk 
appear richer and thicker. Goats eat it. Cows and sheep are not fond of it. Horses and 
swine refuse it. 
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