424 ICOSANDRIA-POLYGYNIA. Potentilla. 



Perennial. June, July. 



Root long and woody. Stems but little longer than the foliage, 

 often shorter, procumbent, weak, slender, hairy, slightly 

 branched, and somewhat leafy. Radical leaves on long hairy 

 footstalks, with lanceolate, tawny, partially hairy stipulas at 

 their base ; lecifleis 5 ; deep green and naked above ; beauti- 

 fully silky and silvery beneath ; their margins entire, except a 

 few acute crowded serratures at the extremity} stem-leaves 

 few, smaller, ternate, nearly sessile, Fl. few, snow-white, on 

 slender bracteated stalks. Cal. silky, its segments all nearly 

 equal in length. Seeds reticulated with slightly elevated wrinkles. 

 Reccpt. very hairy. From Swiss specimens. 



This elegant species is only mentioned incidentally as a German 

 plant, by Haller, in his Iter Helveticum, nor did he ever know 

 of its being found in Switzerland. It was first discovered by 

 the Rev. Mr. DuCros, in the wood of Prangins_, and I have spe- 

 cimens from Mr, Davall. 



9. P. reptans. Common Creeping Cinquefoil. 



Leaflets five, obovate, serrated. Stem creeping. Stalks 

 axillary, single-flowered. 



P. reptans. Linn. Sp. PL 714. Willd. v. 2. 1 108. Fl. Br. 55 1 . 

 Engl. Bot. v.\2. t. 862. Curt. Lond.fasc. 1. /. 37. Woodv. t. 59, 

 Hook. Scot. 1 63. Ehrh. PL Of. 435. NesfL Potent. 66. HalL 

 jun. in Ser. Mus. v. 1 . 54. Ser. Mus. v. 1 , 70. Fl. Dan. t. 1 1 64. 



Pentaphyllum vulgatissimum, Raii Syn. 255. 



P. sive Quinquefolium vulgare repens. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 397./. 



P. minus, Brunf. Herb. v. 2, 34./. 



Quinquefolium. Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 365,/ Camer. Epit. 759./ 

 bad, 



Q. vulgare, Ger. Em.987.f. 



Q. majus luteum. Fuchs. Hist. 624./ 



Fragraria n. 1 1 18. HalL HisL v. 2, 47. 



/3. Pentaphyllum aureum minus sylvaticum nostras, foliis tripartita 

 divisis, ex cauliculorum geniculis radicescens. Pluk. Almag. 285 . 

 Dill, in Raii Syn. 2o5. 



In meadows, pastures, and by way sides, common. 



Perennial. June — August. 



Root tapering, throwing out several long, prostrate, leafy, round, 

 slightly hairy stems, which fix themselves by radicles from the 

 joints. Leaves opposite, in pairs from each joint, on longish, 

 ascending, hairy footstalks, with a pair of small, linear, acute, 

 membranous, combined stipulas at the base of each, accompanied 

 by two opposite, 3-lobed or undivided, entire, leafy bractcas. 

 Leaflets 5, strongly serrated in their upper half, rough or hairy 

 about the edges. Flowers large, bright yellow, on long, simple, 

 naked, rather hairy, axillary, solitary stalks, taller than the 



