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GLEANINGS AND OEIGINAL MBMOEANDA. 
When first received from the Botanic Garden, Glasnevin, it was remarked to be so much stouter in all its parts than 
the Ochreate Potentil, that it was mistaken for some variety of the Bush Potentil (P. arbuscula Don ; alias P. rigida 
Wallich) ; for the wild specimens of the species have very narrow leaves, white with long hairs, and a more slender 
manner of growth- A more careful examination, however, shows that this is really a mere garden state of the Ochreate. 
The Bush Potentil is a plant of more vigorous growth, with bright green, not grey foliage ; the leaflets in threes, or at 
most in fives, and by no means wrinkled on the under side ; its flowers are, moreover, each furnished with ten bracts, either 
wholly separate, or partially united in pairs, a circumstance by which it is immediately distinguishable from all the forms 
of the Shrubby Potentil (P. fruticosa). It is well figured in Wallich's Plantse Asiaticse ; but very ill defined by 
Lehman n. 
form 
section of that great genus : 
* Flowers Yellow. 
1 . The Shrubby Potentil (P. fruticosa L. ; alias P. floribunda Pursh). Bracts five, narrow, smooth on the keel, longer than 
the sepals. Leaflets five, linear-lanceolate. 
The Bush Potentil (P. arbuscula D. Don ; alias P. twpolcnm Id.; alias P. rigida Wallich). Bracts ten, the length of 
the sepals. 
3. The Ochreate Potentil (P. ochreata Lindley in WaUich's Catalogue). Bracts five, rough on the keel, the length of 
the sepals. Leaflets oblong, five to nine, much wrinkled beneath. 
* * Flowers White. 
4. The Sales of Potentil (P. Saksovii Steph.) An erect bush. Leaves hoary beneath, serrated at the edge. 
.5. The Glabrous Potentil (P. glabra Loddiges). A half trailing bush. Leaves smooth, entire at the edge. 
