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Cinquefoil
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CINQUEFOIL Potentilla reptans Family ROSACEAE On grasslands and roadside wastes one may be sure to find the neat leaves and long, slender, creeping stems of the Cinquefoil. It has woody rootstocks, which extend for a foot or more in the soil, black outside and red within, and at their upper end these branch and form several erowns. From each of these erowns, run off, in all directions, slender stems, yards in length, rooting frequently to peg themselves down, and clothed at intervals with long-stalked leaves. These leaves are broken up into five toothed and eggshaped leafiets, arranged finger-fashion (digitate). The golden-yellow fiowers are about an inch across and arise singly on slender stalks from the axils of the leaves. The five petais alternate with the green sepais, which show between them. Below the sepais there is a set of little bracts (bracteoles), eollectively spoken of as the epicalyx The stamens and pistils ripen simultaneously, Flowering from June to September.

 

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The flowering period is from May Cinquefoil to July. Tbe Common Pearlwort will be found in all sorts of waste piaæes, pastures and banks. The Pearlworts are among the smallest of our flowering plants. Owing to Cinquefoil the minuteness of their parts it is not an easy matter to discriminate between the recognized species. Although Sagina procumbens is a type common throughout the country, few people know Cinquefoil it by its name.
The flowers are solitary Cinquefoil, of a rich purple within, much paler without, and measure nearly two inches across. The woolly calyx is in one, strongly ribbed, with five very lon g leaf-like teeth Cinquefoil, that considerably exceed the petais in length. The flowers produce nectar, but owing to the length of the tube it is only accessible to the long tongues of butterflies and Cinquefoil moths, who are instrumen tal in effecting its cross-fertilization. This is the only native species. The flowering period is from June to September.

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