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PorTENTILLA GRACILIS. TALL UPRIGHT 
CINQUEFOIL. 
LK KEE EEE EEE EKER EEEEE 
Class and Order. 
IcosanpRIA Potyeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Rosacea. ) 
Generic Character. 
Cal. 10-fidus, laciniis alternis minoribus. : Pet. 5. Cary- 
opses nude, plurime, in receptaculo sicco, sepe piloso. 
Specific Character and Synonym. 
Porentizta gracilis; caule erecto elato superne corym- 
boso-paniculato molliter hirsuto, foliis longe petiolatis 
5-natis superioribus solummodo sessilibus, foliolis lan- 
ceolatis profunde pinnatifido-serratis subtus albo-to- 
mentosis, stipulis magnis lanceolatis, calyce sericeo 
_  petalis obcordatis longiore. : 
Porentiiia gracilis. Douglas MSS. 
a 
Descr. Root perennial, with many brown scales at its 
summit, from which arises a stem, a foot to a foot and a 
half high, rounded and slender in the wild specimens, more 
robust when cultivated, every where clothed with rather 
long, more or less patent, soft and silky hairs, paniculato- 
Corymbose upwards. Leaves few upon the stem, the upper 
ones sessile and ternate, the uppermost ones laciniated 
and bracteiform, the rest, and especially the radical ones, 
Upon long hairy stalks, quinate : the leaflets three to four 
Mches long, cut into very deep pinnatifid segments or 
Serratures, pointing upwards, varying somewhat in breadth, 
dark Ss ghee above with a few scattered hairs, beneath 
clothed with a dense, white, somewhat downy substance, 
mixed 
