430 
California: W. G. Wright, 1879; Coville & Funston, no. 1672. 
189!. 
Pringle labelled his specimens Potentilla subviscosa Greene (near 
P. Wheeleri Wats.). I think, however, that it should be referred to 
P. Wheeleri rather than to P. subviscosa, as it does not have the dis- 
sected leaves and the subunguiculate petals of P. sudviscosa. 
PovrENTILLA suBviscosa Greene, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, 8: 97. 1881. 
Differs from P. Wheeleri in the leaflets, which are deeply 
cleft into oblong divisions, and the middle one often 3-divided to 
near the midrib, in the petals which are more or less plainly un- 
guiculate and about one-half longer than the sepals, in the more . 
hirsute pubescence which is intermixed with numerous glands. 
It resembles closely the figure of P. Dombeyi in Nestler’s Mono- 
graph, but neither Nestler nor Lehmann mention anything con 
cerning the glands or the unguiculate petals. P. Dombeyi was de> 3: 
scribed from specimens from Chili, but has been reported from 
Mexico. I have not seen any specimens and doubt its existence 
there. P. subviscosa grows in Arizona and New Mexico. 
POTENTILLA RAMULOSA N. sp. 
Stems several from the thick perennial root, about 1 dm. high, 
scarcely exceeding the basal leaves, more or less hirsute, and 
branched. Stipules lanceolate, the lower scarious and brown, the 
upper herbaceous; basal leaves on hirsute petioles 5-8 cm. long, 
finely pubescent, in age shining; leaflets 5-7, obovate, coarsely 
and generally doubly toothed with somewhat divergent teeth, 
prominently veined beneath, the larger 5-7 cm. long. Flowers 
slender-pediteled in an open cyme; calyx and pedicels hirsute 
and with numerous sessile glands; bracts oblong, a little shorter 
than the oblong-ovate sepals; both distinctly veined, in fruit 10 
curved and inclosing the rather few large achenes; petals obcor 
date, deeply emarginate and evidently contracted in a short claw ; 
stamens 15-20; pistils rather few; achenes striate. (Plate 27 6.) 
P. ramulosa resembles P. subviscosa, but is a much larger plant. 
The leaves, by their size, pubescence and form, remind one some” — 
what of P. Nuttallii and P. Blaskeana. The leaflets reach a length - 
ofeven 7 cm. The general habit, form of calyx and corolla, ete, e 
are those of P. sudviscosa, but the achenesare striate. The follow- 
ing specimens have been examined : 28 
