CENT. XIII. 160 
Small 3-4inches high, leaves and flowers very 
small yellow. 
1241, Torm. fragaroides Raf. Fragaria 
sterilis L. Potentilla frasi rien Ehr. Pers. 
Comarum do Roth—Europe, paradoxical plant, 
more akin to this G. by habit and gynophore 
than to Comarum ; but very different from Fra- 
garia and Potentilla, leaves and flowers as in 
Fragaria, 5 white petals. 
1242, Boorra sylvestris Big. Eaton, Geum 
agrimonoides Pursh, Potentilla confertiflora 
Tor. P. arguta Pursh,Beck, Hooker,--New Eng- 
land, New York &e, fine plant shuffled about, 
a real G. gynophore as in last, calix with 5 nec- 
tariferous pits, 5 entire petals, stamens mona- 
delphous at the base, gynophore pubescent,seeds 
awnless, lower leaves pinnate gc. 
1243, Bootia cymosa Raf. Geum rupestris 
vel viscosum R. mpt. 1817. pubescens subvisco- 
sa, fol. inferis petiol. pinnatis 5fol. superis sub- 
sess. ternatis simplicisque, foliolis obov. ovatis 
oblongis argute serratis, cymis 2-3chot. multifi. 
—Taconik Mts. and rocks of New York, blen- 
ded with the last by all, but larger, leaves not 
with 7-9 round folioles as iu last, fl. not ina 
crowded head. 
1244, Bootia? sericea Raf. Pot. arguta 
Lehm. non Pursh, pensylv. Beck—villosa seri- 
cea, caule simplex, fol. subsess. pinnatis foliolis 
5-7 obl. sess. pectinato pinnatifidis acutis fl. 
term. congestis subcorymb. bracteis stipulisque 
cristato pectinatis, petalis cal. vix longiorib.— 
Upper Missouri, Origon &c, quite silky white 
even calix, is it a Potentilla akin to 1204? but - 
which is neither silky nor pinnate: my spect- 
men is of Bradbury. t 
1245, Comarum palustre L. Raf. fl. tel. 198 
