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or pinnate with closely approximate leaflets; petioles 3-5 cm. long, glabrous; leaflets cuneate 
or obovate-cuneate, glabrous or ciliate on the margins and veins, more or less glaucous, 
1 2 cm. long, crenate with rounded-ovate teeth at the apex; stem-leaves 1-3, short-petioled, 
1-3-foliolate; stipules ovate, acute, about 1 cm. long; inflorescence 14-flowered ; hypan- 
thium pilose, in fruit 5 mm. wide; bractlets elliptic or oblong, obtuse, about 3 mm. long; 
sepals ovate, acute, 4-5 mm. long; petals broadly obcordate, about 7 mm. long; stamens 
about 20; pistils many; styles filiform. 
aoe collected at Sperry Glacier, Montana, in 1901, 7 K. Vreeland 1092 (herb. N. Y. Bot. 
Gar 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality ; there also collected by L. M. Umbach. 
85. Potentilla diversifolia Lehm. Stirp. Pug. 2: 9. 1830. 
Potentilla dissecta Nutt. Jour. Acad. Phila. 7: 21. 1834. Not P. dissecta Pursh. 1814. 
Potentilla campestris Nutt.; T. & G. Fl. N, Am. 1: 439, assynonym. 1840. ‘ 
Perennial, with a cespitose caudex; stem erect, few-leaved, smooth or strigose, 1-2 dm. 
(rarely 3 dm.) high; stipules lanceolate to ovate, acuminate; basal leaves digitate (P. cam- 
pestris Nutt.), or often pinnate with approximate leaflets, or both in the same plant, more 
or less silky-strigose, especially beneath ; petioles 5-15 cm. long; stem-leaves reduced, the 
uppermost 3-foliolate and sessile; leaflets most commonly 7, oblanceolate-cuneate or some- 
times obovate, more or less toothed with triangular lanceolate teeth ; hypanthium more or 
less pubescent, in fruit 7-10 mm. in diameter; bractlets and sepals lanceolate, acute, the 
latter 3.5-5 mm. long, the former shorter ; petals obcordate or obovate and emarginate, 6-7 
mim. long, about one third longer than the sepals; stamens about 20; pistils many; styles 
filiform. 
TYPE LOCALITY: [Not given in the original, but supplied in Hooker’s Flora.] Summits of 
Rocky Mountains [British America]. 
Fa earl Mountain valleys from Saskatchewan to British Columbia, California, and 
Colorado 
ILLUSTRATION : Lehm. Rev, Potent. £/. 31. 
86. Potentilla glaucophylla Lehm. Delect. Sem. Hort. 
, Bot. Hamb. 1836: 7. 1836. 
Potentilla diverstfolia glaucophylia Lehm. Stirp. Pug. 9: 44. 1851. 
Potentilla dissecta glaucophylla S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 8: 556. 1873. 
Perennial, with a short woody caudex; stems 1.5-4 dm. high, glabrous below, sparingly 
strigose above; basal leaves digitately 5-7-foliolate; petioles glabrous, 2-10 cm. long; 
leaflets oblanceolate-cuneate, 1-5 cm. long, coarsely serrate, with oblong or lanceolate, acute 
teeth directed forward, strigose when young, soon glabrate, rather thick and more or less. 
glaucous; lower stem-leaves similar but with shorter petioles, the upper reduced, 1~3-folio-~ 
late; stipules ovate or lanceolate, 5-15 mm. long, acute, usually entire; cyme 3-12-flowered ; 
hypanthium rather shallow, strigose, 5-7 mm. wide in fruit; bractlets lanceolate, 3-5 mm. 
long, acute; sepals ovate, acuminate, 5-7 mm. long; petals obcordate, 6-10 mm. long; 
stamens 20; pistils many; styles filiform. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Plains of the first chain of the Rocky Mountains called the Black Hills. 
(Wyoming ?]. 
7 ale Mountain valleys from British Columbia to Saskatchewan, New Mexico and 
ta 
ILLUSTRATION : Mem. Dep. Bot, Columbia Univ. 2: pl. 19, f. 6-10 (as P. dissecta). 
87. Potentilla Ranunculus Lange, Fl. Dan. 17°: 7. 1880. 
Perennial, with a long cespitose rootstock, thickly covered by brown scale-like remnants 
of stipules and petioles; stems ascending, 1-3 dm. high, glabrate or slightly pubescent, 
2-4-flowered and few-leaved; basal leaves digitately 5-foliolate, thin, not strongly veined, 
glaucous, glabrous or ciliate; petioles slender, glabrous, 5-10 cm. long ; leaflets obovate, 
deeply 5-7-toothed with large lanceolate teeth; stem-leaves ternate ; bractlets narrowly 
lanceolate, 4-5 mm. long; sepals broadly lanceolate, 6-7 mm. long, ere petals slightly 
emarginate, slightly longer than the sepals, pale-yellow, 7-8 mm. long. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Kekertak, Greenland. 
DISTRIBUTION: Greenland and Labrador. 
ILLUSTRATION : Fl. Dan. 1. 2964. 
