416 ICOSANDIIIA— POLYGYNIA. Potentilla. 



naked, roundish, generally more or less wrinkled, cover- 

 ing the surfa.ce of a small, dry, globular, permanent, un- 

 altered receptacle, to which each is laterally attached, 

 below the insertion of its style. 

 Mostly perennial ; rarely shrubby. Leaves alternate ; pin- 

 nate, digitate, or ternate ; for the most ]:)art deeply ser- 

 rated, or cut. Stiptdas in pairs, united to the base of each 

 footstalk, Fl. terminal and aggregate, rarely axillary and 

 soUtary ; scentless, yellow, more rarely white, very sel- 

 dom recldish, never blue. Qualities astringent. 

 * Leaves pinnate, 

 1. V.fniticosa. Shrubby Cinquefoil. 

 Leaves pinnate, entire, hairy. Stem shrubby. 

 P. fruticosa. Linn. Sp. PL 709. JVilld v. 2. 1094. Fl. Br. 547. 

 Engl. Bot. V. 2. t. 88. Dicks. H. Sicc.fasc. 6. 12. Ehrh. Arh. 135. 

 Ntstl. Potent. 30. t. \, his.f. A. 

 Pentaphvlloides fruticosa. Rail Sijn. 256. Cat. PL AngL ed. 2. 228. 



L 1. 'EngL Gard. Cat. 54. L 14. 

 P. rectum fruticosum Eboracense. Moris, v. 2. 1 93. sect. 2 . t.23.f.5. 

 P. fruticosa eUuior, minus hirsuta. Anim. Ruth. SS. 1. 1 7. Herb. Linn. 

 In mountainous thickets, but rare. 



About Greta bridge, Mickle force, Egglestone abbey, and several 

 other places in Teesdale. Ray. Found there abundantly by 

 Mr. Rohson and Mr Bkheno. 

 Siirub. June. 



Stem bushy, woody, 3 or 4 feet high, leafy, with a deciduous 

 cuticle. Leaves stalked ; leaflets 5, rarely 7, oblong, acute, 

 revolute, about an inch in length, clothed more or less densely 

 with close hairs, esi)ecially at the edges ; paler beneath ; the 3 

 terminal ones confluent and decurrent : uppermost leaves ter- 

 nate only. FL terminal, stalked, somewhat aggregate, large, of 

 a golden yellow, copiously produced during summer and autumn, 

 winch recommends this shrub to the notice of cultivators in ge- 

 neral. The outer segments of the calyx, taken by Dr. Nestler 

 for hracteas, vary greatly in size and shape, and are sometimes 

 cloven, as appears by my specimens from various countries. The 

 two extremes may be seen in the figure in Engl. Bot., and Dr. 

 Nestler's t. 1, bis, f. A. 1 presume to think his P. davurica 

 is but a variety ; as ^. 18./. 1, of Amman is acknowledged to be. 

 P. .Sa/c50i;ii of'Willdenow is justly expunged by DcCandolle. A 

 Siberian specimen in the Linnsean herbarium, of Amman's ^.17, 

 sent by Gmelin, which in this case is the original authority, is 

 just as hairy in the foliage as our Yorkshire plant, and nearly 

 agrees in the calyx. 

 Duhamel in his Jrbres, v. 2. t. 20, has given as a representation of 

 P. fruticosa, the wooden cut of Valgrisius, which belongs to the 

 widely different P. argenfea ; see that species. 





