ICOSANDRIA, POLYGYNIA. Potentilla. 
This has been supposed. to be the common stock from which 
all the ailierene sorts cultivated in gardens are derived, but one 
of the garden sorts witha very large berry, called the Hautboy 
coached: the var. 6 of Linn. bears male and female flowers 
ifferent\ ents ' 
F, Stem prostrate, without creeping runners. 
Curt. 173—Vaill. 10, 1—Lob. ic. i. 698—Ger. em. 998—Pet. 
40. 8-F. B. ii. 395-H. or. ii. 19. 5. 
Shoots thick, depressed, covered with spear-shaped stipulz 
of the colour of Tusty iron. Leaves growing by threes, in- 
Mr. Curtis considers this et as Sarena ng the connecting link 
between the Fragaria and Potentilla, having the leaves of the 
former, but in facliiation more resembling the latter. Gmelin 
considers it as a Comarum, and calls it C. fragarioides. 
Barren Sinetbers), Barren pastures, heaths, and hedge 
nks. P. Be ril, May. 
POT ENTILLA. Calyx forsiett petals 5: seeds 
roundish, naked, wrinkled, fixed to a recep- 
tacle, which i is small, juiceless, spongy, tu- 
bercled. 
(1) Leaves winged. 
+ ps winged: stem shrub-like. 
Dicks. h. s.-E. bot. 88-Kniph. 5-Wale.—H. ox. ii. 23. row 
3. f. Sd-R. cat. ed. ii, at p. 228=Pet. 41. 8—Amman.17 
and 18.1. — 
Whole #/ant set with fine silvery hairs. Stems reddish. Leafis 
strap-spear-shaped, turned back at the edges, dark green above, 
aiiiheneeties ap hardly to be called winged, consisting 
of 2 pairs set crossw sing from the same point, with a ter- 
minating one div ided ak to the base into 3 open segments. 
Biloss. yellow 
Shrubby Cinguc foil. On the south banks of the 'Tees below 
Thorpe, and Eggleston Abbey, and also near Greta bales and 
“Mickle Force Teesdale, Yorkshire. Ray.—Mr. Robson assures 
me that it still grows in great abundance upon these spots oe 
* The beautiful appearance of its numerous flowers has gained it ad- 
Mittance into ns. Besos are made of it. Cows, horses, goats, and 
sheep cat it. Swine refuse it. 
ste’rilis. 
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frutico’sa. 
