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* POTENTILLA glandulösa ; 8. incisa. 
Cut-leaved Glandular Potentilla. 
ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Rosacez, S POTENTILLEZ. 
POTENTILLA. Suprà, vol. 15. fol. 1359. 
E, glandulosa, Suprà, vol. 19. fol. 1583. i 
~ B. incisa ; foliolis incisis utrinque acutis, petalis calyce longioribus. 
A hardy herbaceous plant introduced from California by 
the Horticultural Society, in whose garden it flowered in 
June 1836. 
It is not a horticultural plant, being too weedy to offer 
any reasonable probability of being improved by culture, 
but it is interesting to Botanists as an evidence of the extent 
to which species vary permanently in their wild state. That 
It 1s a mere variety of Potentilla glandulosa, figured at plate 
1583 of this work, I cannot doubt; and yet the wild speci- 
mens have the petals longer than the calyx, the stem weaker 
and less glandular, and the leaflets not only deeply cut as 
well as serrated but strikingly cuneate at the base, and 
pointed at the other end, instead of having a roundish oblong 
gure. These distinctions, which are sufficiently obvious 
when the plant is wild, become so much more striking 1n 
cultivated individuals that a Botanist, unacquainted with the 
` wild plant, might be well excused for supposing 14 to be a 
IStinct species 
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* See folio 1379. 
