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Plants of the Punjab. 
Heres, UNBRANCHED, WITH ALTERNATE SripuLATE CompounD Leavss. 
Fragaria vesca, 
Wild Strawberry, 
Kanzars, tawar, 
banaphal. 
Rosace®. 
F. B. I. u. 844. 
Himalaya, 
5-8,000 ft. | 
Simla, Mahasu 
(Collett). 
Kashmir. 
Potentilla Sibbaldi, 
Rosacuze. 
F. B. 1. ii, 345. 
Himalaya, 
9-15,000 ft. 
Bhagi, Hattu 
(Collett*. 
Potentilla albifolia, 
Potentilla ambigua, 
Potentilla fulgens, 
Potentilla anserina, 
Silver weed, 
RosacE®. 
FE, B. Tn. 850. 
Himalaya, 
7-16,000 ft. 
Jalti, Kashmir 
(Clarke). 
Spiti (Thomson). 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
very like the last species, but flowers white, #-1 in. 
diam., bracteoles small, not lobed, leaf stalks sometimes 
bear an extra minute pair of leaflets, leaflets larger, sharply 
and deeply toothed, teeth tipped with tufts of hairs. 
stipules narrow, not toothed. ‘he fruit is edible, but gene- 
rally almost flavourless. This plant is cultivated in the 
plains as well as in the hills, but is the English variety 
with possibly some of the Indian strain, 
small, perennial, hairy, rootstock woody, stems tuited, 
9-12 in.; leaves mostly radical, digitately compound, leaf- 
stalk 4 in. long, slender, leaflets 3, 4-2 in., wedge-shaped, 
ovate with a broad 8-5-toothed tip, stipules large, thin ; 
flowers 4 in. diam., yellow, in terminal flat-topped clusters 
on main flower stalks, 3-6 in. long, calyx persistent, tube 
shallow, bow]l-shaped, on its outer margin 5 linear bracteoles 
alternating with 5 triangular lanceolate lobes, erect in fruit, 
petals 5, narrowly ovate with a broad tip, hardly longer 
than the calyx lobes, stamens 5, alternate with the petals, 
sometimes 1-5 opposite to them, styles lateral short, per- 
sistent on the achenes ; fruit consists of a head of many 
hard ovoid smooth achenes on a flat hairy receptacle. 
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see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Stipulate, Compound, 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Stipulate, Compound, 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Stipulate, Compound. 
rootstock very short, sending out long runners, leaves 
forming a spreading tuft 2-10 in., green above, silky 
beneath, lanceolate, pinnate, leaflets 4-2 in., sessile, 6-10 
pairs with minute alternating ones, ovate with a broad tip, 
or oblong, deeply sharply toothed, silvery with white hairs 
beneath, stipules thin, flowers }-1 in. diam., yellow, on slen- 
der one-flowered, naked stalks, 1-6 in. long, calyx lobes 
lanceolate, long-pointed, bracteoles lobed, petals round, 
achenes many on a hairy raised receptacle ; for other cha- 
racters see the last species. 
