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calyces, and margins of the leaves pilose: the surface of the leaves 
and the calyx-segments with scattered hairs. 
Spring Cinquefoil. 
French, Potentille du Printemps. 
SPECIES IV.—POTENTILLA ALPESTRIS. JZuaill fis. 
Pirate CCCOXXIX. 
P. aurea, Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 561 (non Linn.). 
P. verna, var. Benth. Handbook Brit. Bot. p. 194. 
P. salisburgensis, Henke, in Jacq. Collect. Vol. II. p. 68. Garcke, Fl. v. N. & Mit. 
Deutschl. ed. vi. p. 132. 
Flowering-stems elongated, ascending. Radical leaves digitate, 
with 5 wedge-shaped leaflets ; leaflets rounded at the apex, serrated 
on the margins towards the apex. Stipules of the radical leaves with 
the free portion lanceolate, those of the stem-leaves with it ovate- 
elliptical. Flowers rather few, on very long peduncles, in very 
lax terminal cymes. Outer segments of the calyx strap-shaped, 
shorter than the inner. Petals much longer than the calyx, broadly 
deltoid-obovate, notched. Receptacle hairy. Achenes smooth and 
elabrous. 
On ledges of rock and grassy slopes on mountains. Rather 
rare. It is said to occur in Wales, and is certainly to be found in 
Yorkshire, and probably in Westmoreland, and it is not uncommon 
in the Breadalbane and Braemar mountains in Scotland. 
England, Scotland. Perennial. Summer. 
Very like P. verna, but of a brighter green colour, not at all 
Opaque, as is usually the case in that species. The flowering-stems 
are erect or ascending from a decumbent base, 3 to 10 inches 
high; the petioles of the root-leaves sometimes 4 or 5 inches long, 
and the leaflets themselves 1 inch long, more coarsely toothed; the 
apex of the leaflet is much less truncate, from the central tooth 
being little smaller than those on each side of it. The lower stipules 
are broader and the upper ones rather narrower than those of P. 
verna, the flowers more numerous, on longer peduncles, larger, 
being 1 inch across, more showy from the petals being broader at 
the apex, and the calyx-segments are more unequal in size. 
Yellow Alpine Cinquefoil. 
French, Potentille Alpestre. German, Salzburgischer Gdnserich. 
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