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Small 3-4inches high, leaves and flowers very 

 small yellow. 



1241, Torm. fragaroides Raf. Fragaria 

 sterilis L. Potentilla fragariastrum Ehr. Pers. 

 Comarum do Roth — Europe, paradoxical plant, 

 more akin to this G. by habit and gynophore 

 than to Comarum ; but very different from Fra- 

 garia and Potentilla, leaves and flowers as in 

 Fragaria, 5 white petals. 



1242, BooTiA stfhestris Big. Eaton, Genm 

 agrimonoides Pursh, Potentilla confertitiora 

 Tor. P. arguta Pursh,Beck, Hooker,"New Eng- 

 land, New York 4*6, fine plant shuffled about, 

 a real G. gynophore as in last, calix with 5 nec- 

 tariferous pits, 5 entire petals, stamens mona- 

 delphous at the basc, gynophore pubescent,seeds 

 awnless, lower leaves pinnate «l-c. 



1243, Bootia cymosa Raf. Genm rupestris 

 vel viscosum R. mpt. 1817. pubescens subvisco- 

 sa, fol. inferis petiol. pinnatis 5fol, superis suh- 

 sess. ternatis simplicisque, foliolis obov. ovatis 

 oblongis argute serratis, cymis 2-3chot. multifl. 

 — Taconik Mts. and rocks of New York, blen- 

 ded with the last by all, but lan^er, ieaves not 

 with 7-9 round folioles as iu last, fi. not in a 

 crowdedhead. 



1244, Bootia ? sericea Raf. Pot. arguta 

 Lehm. non Pursh, pensylv. Beck — villosa seri- 

 cea, caule simplex, fol. subsess. pinnatis foliolis 

 5-7 obl. sess. pectinato pinnatifidis acutis fl. 

 term. congestis subcorymb. bracteis stipu|isque 

 cristato pectinatis, petalis cal. vix longiorib. — 

 Upper Missouri, Origon &c, quite silky white 

 even calix, is it a Potentilla akin to 1204? b«t 

 which is neither silky nor pinnate : my speci- 

 men is of Bradbury. t 



1245, CoMARUM palustre L. Raf. fl. tel. 198 



