418 ICOSANDRIA—POLYGYNIA. Potentilla. 



Fragaria n. 1 127. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 51. 



Upright Welsh Cinquefoil. Pet. H. Brit. t.4\.f. 6. 



On shady alpine rocks in Wales, very rare. 



On the sides of a hill called Craig Wreidhin, or rather Breddin, 

 Montgomeryshire, found by Mr. Lhwyd. Ray. Gathered there 

 June 29, 1817, by Mr. J. E. Bowman. 



Perennial. June. 



Root somewhat woody, tapering, with numerous fibres. Whole 

 herb more or less hairy. Stem a foot high,. erect, round, reddish, 

 leafy, corymbose and many-flowered. Leaves pinnate in a lyrate 

 manner, deep green, unequally cut and serrated -, the radical 

 ones largest, on long footstalks ; their leaflets 7 j those of the 

 upper leaves 5, or 3. Fl. much resembling the blossoms of 

 Garden Strawberries, large, white, in a forked corymbose pa- 

 nicle. CaL after flowering enlarged, spreading, brown and 

 membranous. Seeds neither hairy nor wrinkled, on a very hairy 

 or bristly receptacle. 



* * Leaves digitate, 



4. P. argentea. Hoary Cinquefoil. 

 Leaflets five, wedge-shaped, jagged; downy beneath. Stem 

 ascending. 



P. argentea. Linn. Sp. PL 712. Mmd. v. 2. 1 101. H. Br. 549. 



Engl.Bot.v.2.t.S9. Hook. Scot. \ 62. Fl.Dan. t.865. Nestl. 



Potent. 48. 

 Pentaphyllum rectum, foliis profundi sectis subtus argenteis, flore 



luteo. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 398. c./. Raii Syn. 255. 

 P. album. Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 367. /; put by Duhamel for P. fru- 



ticosum. 

 Quinquefolium folio argenteo. Bauh. Pin. 325. 

 Q. Tormentillae facie. Ger. Em. 988./ 

 Q. minus. Camer. Epit. 760./. Fuchs. Hist. 625./ 

 Fragaria n. 1 124. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 50. 



In pastures on a gravelly soil. 



Perennial. June, July. 



Root rather woody. Stems several, erect, or nearly so, from 6 to 



12 inches high, leafy, round, cottony, occasionally branched. 



Leaves stalked, of 5 narrow, deeply serrated or cut leaflets; 



green above ; cottony and snow-white beneath, like the calyx. 



Fl. small, yellow, numerous, in a white, cottony, corymbose 



panicle. Seeds numerous, small, smooth and even. 



5. P. alpestris. Orange Alpine Cinquefoil. 



Radical leaves of five wedge-shaped, somewhat hairy, 

 leaflets ; deeply cut in their upper half. Upper stipulas 

 ovate. Petals heart-shaped. Stems ascending. 



