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Mr. T. Kawakami tells me that the fruit of tliis Fragaria is 

 very delicious. 



PotentiUa Linn. 



Potentilla gelida C A. Mey. ; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. II. p. 59 ; Hook. f. 

 Fl. Brit. IncL II. p. 357 ; Diels, Fl. Tin ling shan, iu Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 

 XXXVI. Beibl. p. 56 ; Hayata, in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XX. p. 73. 



PotentiUa grandiflora Linn. ; Wagner, Dent. Fl. ed-3, p. 359 ; Thome, 

 Fl. Deut. Ost. u. Schw. IIL p. 70. 



Hab. in monte Morrison, ad 13094 ped. alt., leg. S. Nagasawa, 

 Nov. 1905, (No. 683). 



DisTKiB. Extends to Europe, North India, central China, Japan, 

 East Siberia, and the Kurile and Aleutian islands. 



The species seems to vary over a very wide range, and 

 especially so in the size of flowers. 



Potentilla leuconota ]3on, " Prodr. p. 230 " ; Hook. f. Fl. l^rit. 

 Ind. II. p. 352 ; Diels, Fl. Centr. Cliin. p. 403. 



^'a^■. morrisonicola Hayata, n. v. (PI. V). 



Potentilla leuconota Hayata, in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XX. p. 74. 



Caulis sericeo-pilosus erectus circ. 15 cm. longus. Foha sub- 

 radicalia pinnata in ambitu oblanceolata obtusa 10 cm. longa circ. 

 19-foliolata, foliolis sessilibus obovatis obtusis 1 cm. longis argute 

 dentatis supra pilosiusculis subtus sericeo-pilosis, petiolis appresse 

 pilosis, stipulis majiisculis scariosis circ. 3 cm. longis ad basin 

 petiolorum adnatis integris. Folia caulina radical! conformia sed 

 multo minora, pauca saepe ad medium caulis 1-2. Flores ad apiceni 

 cauhs 9-8 fasciculati subumbellati 1-2-bracteati, pedicelhs 1 cm. 

 longis. Flores patentes 8 mm. in diametro acquantos, bracteolis 

 angustis integris. Calycis lobi ovati acuti sericei. Petala late ob- 



