ICOSANDRIA— POLYGYNIA. Potentilla. 423 



Q. album. Camer. Epit. 76]. f. Hall. It. Helv. sect. 46. 



Q. majus candidum. Fuchs. Hist. 623./. Ic. 357./. 



Q. primum majus albo flore. Clus. Hist. v. 2. 105./. 



Q. sylvaticum majus, flore albo. Ger. Em. 989./ 



In mountainous woods. 



In Wales, according to Mr. Haviland. Hudson. Not observed by 

 any other person. 



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 j leaflets 5 ; deep green and naked above ; beauti- 

 fully silky and silveiy 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. 

 Recept. very hairy. From Swiss specimens. 



This elegant species is only mentioned incidentally as a German 

 plant, by Haller, in his Iter Hclveticum, 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. R. Br. 551. 



Engl. Bot. V. 12. t. 862. Curt. Lond.fasc. 1. ^.37. Woodv. /.59. 



Hook. Scot. 163. Ehrh. Fl. Of. 435. Nestl. Potent. 66. Hall. 



jun. in Ser. Mus. v. 1 . 54. Ser. Mus. v. 1. 79. Fl. Dan. t. 1 164. 

 Pentaphyllum vulgatissimum. Raii Syn. 255. 

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

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



Quinquefolium. Matth. /a/^r. r. 2.365./ Camer. Epit. 759. /.had. 

 Q. vulgare. Ccr. Em. 987./. 

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

 Fragraria n. 1 1 IH. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 47. 

 /3. Pentaphyllum aureum minus sylvaticum nostras, foliis tripartito 



divisis, ex ciiuliculorum gcniculis radicescens. Pluk. Almai;. 285. 



Dill, in Raii Syn. 255. 



In meadows, pa.stures, and by way sides, common. 

 Perennial. June — August. 



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

 slightly hairy stems, which fi.\ tiiemselves by radicles from the 



