144, ENGLISH BOTANY. 
Rootstock woody, branched; branches terminating in a barren 
shoot having a few leaves on stalks 1 to 8 inches long. Leaflets 
1 to 2 inches long, resembling those of a strawberry, but without 
the lateral veins being distinctly depressed above as in that plant. 
Flowering-stems produced below the barren tuft, from the axils of 
the leaves of the previous season, at first short, but afterwards 
lengthening until they are sometimes 6 inches to 1 foot long, fur- 
nished with shortly stalked ternate leaves or the upper ones with 
the lateral lamina suppressed and the remaining one oval. Stipules 
of the lower stem-leaves with the free portion roundish-ovate, blunt, 
those of the upper lanceolate-acute. Cyme so lax that the flowers 
appear solitary. Flowers 3 inch across, white. Inner calyx-seg- 
ments triangular, outer ones strap-shaped and shorter. Recep- 
tacle with the hairs longer than the other British species, except 
P. fruticosa. Plant greyish-green, more or less pilose; the young 
leaves silky beneath. 
Barren Strawberry. 
French, Potentille Fraisier. German, Lrdbeerblattriger Ganserich. 
SPECIES IIL—POTENTILLA VERNA. Zinn. 
Pruate CCCCXXVITI. 
Flowering-stems short, procumbent. Radical leaves digitate, with 
5 (more rarely 7) wedgeshaped-obovate leaflets; leaflets truncate 
and 3-toothed at the apex, serrated on the margins towards the apex. 
Stipules of the radical leaves with the free portion linear-subulate, 
those of the stem-leaves with it ovate-lanceolate. Flowers few, 
on rather long erect peduncles, in lax terminal cymes. Outer seg- 
ments of the calyx elliptical, shorter than the inner. Petals longer 
than the calyx, obovate, notched. Receptacle hairy. Achenes 
smooth, glabrous. 
On dry banks and rocks. Rather rare. Sparingly distributed 
from Devonshire as far North as Forfarshire. 
England, Scotland. Perennial. Early Summer. 
Rootstock woody, much branched, the divisions terminating in 
a barren shoot. Flowering-stems 1 to 6 inches long. Radical 
leaves on stalks 4 to 2 inches long, with the central segment the 
largest, + to $ inch long, truncate at the apex, from the central 
tooth being smaller than the others; stem-leaves small, lower 
ones with 3 leaflets, upper with 1 3-cleft leaflet. Flowers usually 
3 together, but sometizes solitary, ¢ inch across, bright yellow. 
Inner ¢alyx-segments ovate, outer ones oblong-elliptical. Petals 
longer than broad. Receptacle with hairs shorter than the achenes. 
Achenesreniform, Plant dull greyish-green, the stems, peduncles, 
