1387 



POTENTlLLA* Hopwoodiana. 

 Hopwood's Hybrid Cinquefoil. 



ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Rosace;e Jussieu. (^Introduction to the natural system of 

 Botany, p. 81.) 



POTENTILLA.—Supr^, vol IQ.fol. 1379. 



Garden Variety. 



This plant is said to have been raised between P. na- 

 palensis and P. recta. Considering how little dependence 

 is to be placed upon the names of species in many Gar- 

 dens, we by no means vouch for the latter parentage ; 

 the former is, we believe, undoubted. It appeared to us, 

 from specimens communicated by the Comte de Vandes, 

 to be a very pretty plant ; on which account we have given 

 it a place in this work. 



In publishing this we deviate from our usual practice, 

 in neither ascribing to it a specific character, by which 

 it may stand recorded in the works of systematic Botanists, 

 nor even referring it to the station it should occupy in a 

 classification of species. Upon this subject it is necessary 

 that some explanation should be given. 



It has long been apparent to us, that numerous varieties 

 which the industry and skill of modern Gardeners have 

 been, it may almost be said, creating by the intermixture 

 of the pollen of nearly allied species, while they have, in 

 many cases, added greatly to the beauty of the Flower- 

 Garden, have been gradually tending, in a most incon- 

 venient degree, to embarrass the systematic Botanist. 



So long as cases of this kind were few in number, the 



* See fol. 1379. 



