SWISS FLOWERS. 45 



should be looked for at Mount Buet, the Diablerets, Great 

 St. Bernard^ Zermatt, Simplon, Glacier of Cambrena in the 

 Engadine, Mont Cenis, Col of Mont Iseran. 



29. Potentilla. 



(PLATE XV IL) 



It is very easy to recognise the general features of this 

 pretty family, from its resemblance to the Strawberry, 

 which, as everyone knows who has frequented table-d'hote 

 dinners, much abounds in Switzerland. The Potentillas are 

 most of them yellow, though this is by no means the case 

 with all, and the colour is one help in distinguishing them 

 amid the perplexing varieties and sub-varieties into which 

 they have been divided. No flowers dry better; they 

 should, therefore, be gathered freely, as the common Poten- 

 tilla, P. reptans, abounds, as, on heaths and pastures, does 

 the smaller, P. tormeutilla, very much like it, but usually to 

 be distinguished by having only four petals, while the other 

 has five. They will be found very useful for dried nosegays. 

 Apart from colour, the divisions of this family are determined 

 very much by the shape of the leaf. Thus we have, first, 

 those with a pinnate leaf, of which P. anserina, well known 

 in England by the name Goose-Grass, or Silver- Weed, is a 



