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(or 9) lines long; petals oblong-cuneate, light yellow, I/2 line long, shorter than the 

 calyx-lobes; styles glandular-papillose; achenes numerous, smooth or faintly 

 rugulose. 



Bottom lands or moist places, 5 to 5000 feet : throughout California at widely 

 scattered stations. North to Washington, east to New Mexico and Illinois. Mar.- 



Oct. 



Locs. — Needles, Jones 3842; Estrella, San Luis Obispo Co., Jared; Tracy, Bioletti; Antioch, 

 Condit; Laguna Puerca, Sonoma Co., Bioletti; Truekee, Sonne (approaching P. biennis in aspect 

 and in shape of leaflets) ; Bloody Canon, Mono Co., Congdon (leaves small, in shape aj)proaching 

 P. biennis) ; Fandango, Modoc Co., Manning (similar to preceding). Nev. : Candelaria, ShocTcley 

 675. 



Eefs.— POTENTILLA LEUCOCARPA Rvdb. ; Britt. & Br. 111. Fl. 2:212, fig. 1924 (1897) ; Mem. 

 Dept. Bot. Columbia Univ. 2:43, pi. 8 (1898). P. millegrana Engelm. ; Lehm. Delect. Sem. Hort. 

 Hamb. 11 (1849), type loc. St. Louis, Mo.; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 282 (1901), ed. 2, 208 (1911), 

 Man. 486 (1925) ; not P. millegrana Dougl. (1834). P. rivalis var. millegrana Wats. Proc. Am. 

 Acad. 8:553 (1873). 



9. P. monspeliensis L. Rough Cinquefoil. Stems erect or nearly so, leafy, 

 1 to 2 feet high; herbage more or less hirsute; leaves ternate; leaflets obovate (the 

 upper narrower), coarsely dentate, % to 1 inch long; cymes leafy, at first compact, 

 later often spreading; flowers 4 to 6 lines wide; bractlets oblong; petals yellow, 

 obovate to cuneate, II/2 to 21/2 lines long; stamens 15 to 20, the filaments short, 

 filiform; styles slender-conical; achenes many, nearly smooth, or usually striate 

 with a distinctive pattern. 



Moist spots, 4600 to 7300 feet: Butte Co.; Fresno Co.; Cuyamaca Mts., San 

 Diego Co. British America, south in the Rocky Mts. to Mexico and east to the 

 Atlantic. June- Aug. Introduced in California. 



Locs. — Jonesville, Butte Co., H. F. Copeland 1066; Florence Lake, Fresno Co., Jepson 

 16,069 ; Cuyamaca Lake, San Diego Co., Mum 4- Harwood 7189. 



Eefs. — PoTENTiLLA MONSPELIENSIS L. Sp. PL 499 (1753), type from Montpelier, France 

 (cult, in the Botanic Gardens at Montpelier, the seed from Virginia or Canada, ace. DC. Cat. PI. 

 Hort. Monsp. 135); Eydb. Mem. Dept. Bot. Columbia Univ. 2:45, pi. 10 (1898). P. hirsuta 

 Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1:303 (1803), type loc. Quebec, Canada. P. grossa Dougl.; Hook. Fl. Bor. 

 Am. 1:193 (1834) as sj^nonym. P. millegrana Dougl. I.e. as sjTionym. P. norvegica var. hirsuta 

 T. & G. Fl. 1:436 (1840). Tridophyllum monspeliense Greene, Lflts. 1:189 (1905). 



10. P. biennis Greene. IMeadow Cinquefoil. Coarse weedy herb, the stems 

 strictly erect (rarely decumbent), branched from the base or the middle, % to 2 

 feet high, more or less purplish, leafy; herbage thinly villous and minutely glandu- 

 lar; leaves all ternate, the petioles 1/2 to 3 inches long; leaflets broadly obovate to 

 suborbicular, coarsely crenate, 4 to 11 lines long; cyme compactly erect, at least 

 not spreading, the flowers solitary or clustered along the elongated branches and 

 often appearing racemose; flowers small (3 lines broad), on pedicels 2 to 4 lines 

 long; bractlets usually oblong; petals yellow (or white), cuneate to elliptical, 1 

 line long, shorter than the calyx-lobes; styles glandular-papillose; achenes numer- 

 ous, whitish. 



Moist flats or valleys, 5000 to 8400 feet : mountains bordering the west side of 

 the Mohave Desert; east side or easterly summit valleys of the Sierra Nevada from 

 Inyo Co. to Modoc Co. South to Lower California, east to the Rocky Mts., north to 

 Saskatchewan. May-Aug. 



Locs.— Mts. bordering w. side Mohave Desert: Bear Valley, San Bernardino Mts., Parish 

 7519 ; Griffins, Mt. Pinos, Elmer 3805 ; Bisses sta., Tehachapi Mts., Dudley 504. Sierra Nevada 

 (easterly valleys or east side of): Panamint Canon, Pauamint Range, Hall tf- Chandler 7008; 

 Monache Mdws., Tulare Co., Hall <S- BahcocTc 5222 ; Inyo Mts., Purpus 5788; North Fork Crooked 

 Creek, White Mts., Jepson 7264; Bishop Creek, Inyo Co., Hall ^ Chandler 7228; Mammoth, Mono 

 Co., K. Brandegee ; Pickle MdAvs., Mono Co., Ottley 1123 ; Donner Lake, Heller 6912 ; Egg Lake, 

 sw. Modoc Co., M. S. Balcer ; Goose Lake Valley, Modoc Co., Austin <J- Bruce 2307. 



Kefs.— POTENTILLA BIENNIS Greene, Fl. Fr. 65 (1891), type loc. "in the mountains from 

 Butte Co. to Kern and San Luis Obispo"; Eydb. Mem. Dept. Bot. Columbia Univ. 2:44, pi. 9 

 (1898); Jepson, Man. 486 (1925). P. laterifolia Engelm.; Eydb. Bull. Torr. Club 23:261 

 (1896), type loc. Utah, Engelmann. Tridophyllum iienne Greene, Lflts. 1:189 (1905). 



