CLASS XII. ORDKtt III.] POTENTILLA. 743 



Jeafy, and more or less clothed with long horizontal hairs. Root-leaves 

 numerous, with long petioles, hairy, leaflets seven, linear, wedge-shaped, 

 deeply and distantly serrated to near the base, dark green, paler be-' 

 neath, scattered over with hairs, the terminal tooth much shorter than 

 the others, the stem-leaves sessile, on short stalks, ternate. Stipules all 

 oblong, lanceolate, the radical ones thin, brown, membranous. Floivers 

 mostly numerous, axillary, and in terminal panicles, the stalks long 

 round, slender, hairy. Calj/x hairy, the outer alternate segments 

 linear, as long as the inner ovate ones. Petals broad, heart-shaped 

 yellow, orange colour towards the base. Carpels smooth, or more or 

 less rugose. 



Habitat.— UiWs of Clove and Braes of Balquidder, Scolland.-iJ/r 

 D. Don. 

 Perennial ; flowering in June. 



This species is distinguished from P. verna by its stouter habit, and 

 the leaflets coarsely serrated to near the base. It is not unfrequent on 

 the mountams of Switzerland and France. 



8. P.al'ba, Linn. (Fig. 844.) White Cinque-foil. Stem slender 

 procumbent ; radical leaves with five oblong leaflets, silky benea h 

 and^e^ated towards the apex, with slendei'incurved teeth ;carpeh 



English Botany, t. 1384.--English Flora, vol ii n 42'? Hnnl-Pv 

 Bntish Flora, ed 4. vol. i. p. 2ol.-Lindle;, S.nip^is,"^^ ' 



Root long, woody, branched, almost black. Stems several, slender 

 filiform, procumbent, somewhat branched and leafy, clothed ^ith len 



?o3ks ifafl'et fi ""TZ' """^^^•^"^' -^^''^-^ ^^^^ 

 lootslalks, leaflets five, oblong lanceolate, tapering towards the base 



smooth and green above, white and silky beneath, tith I e shin in' 



W, the margin serrated towards the point, with slende in ur ed 



e L V 7 T ^"? ' ''"' '^^^^'^^^' ^"^ ^^-^ "-row obloog 

 leaflets. Stzpules oblong lanceolate, with an attenuated point. Flo'aers 



seldom more than three or four, with slender peduncles CalfJhZ-y 

 the outer segments linear, shorter than the inner lanceolf^^ on f 

 Petals white, obong, heart-shaped, yellow at the base. i^J.XJ; 

 hairy. Carpels slightly rugose. receptacle 



Habitat.-Wales (?) Mr. Haviland (Hudson). 



Perennial; flowering in June and July, 



cb.„„g,„.edge-s4el:deep,;:Z\X°h:^e^^:^^^ 



bans close pressed; peduncles solitary, axillary. exUemity 



