152 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
lanceolate. Stem purplish, clothed with a hoary tomentum, under- 
side of the leaves, pedicels, and calyces hoary-white. 
Hoary Cinquefoil. 
French, Potentille argentée. German, Silberweiser Gdnserich. 
Section III.—FRUTICOS#. Doll. 
Stems woody, perennial. 
SPECIES X.—-POTENTILLA FRUTICOSA. Zinn. 
Puate CCCCXXXVI. 
Stems woody, branched. Leaves stalked, pinnate, with 2, rarely 
3 pairs of lateral leaflets; leaflets elliptical, entire, mucronate, 
with the margins revolute, all approximate, the uppermost pair 
confluent with the terminal one. Stipules with the free portion 
long, elliptical, entire. Flowers terminal, in a corymbo-paniculate 
cyme, or sub-solitary. Outer calyx-segments as long as the inner, 
but narrower. Petals obovate, rounded at the apex. Receptacle 
with long hairs. Carpels hirsute. 
In stony and bushy places in mountainous districts. Very 
local. Abundant in Upper Teesdale, on both the Yorkshire and 
Durham sides of the river Tees; at Wastdale Screes, Cumber- 
land; and by the Don, west of Doncaster; in counties Galway 
and Clare, Ireland; also reported from the falls of the Clyde, in 
Scotland, but no doubt planted in that locality. 
England, [Scotland,| Ireland. Shrub. Summer and Autumn. 
A shrub 1 to 4 feet high, much branched, with the bark sepa- 
rating in long flaky strips from the older branches. Leaves 
numerous, rather shortly stalked. Leaflets nearly equal in size 
(often so closely placed that the leaf appears to be digitate), 3 to 1 
inch long. Flowers large, yellow, 1 to 1} inch across. Sepals 
long, the inner ones broadly lanceolate-triangular, the exterior ones 
linear-elliptical, more rarely with sub-foliaceous tips. Carpels, as 
well as the receptacle, completely covered with very close long 
bristly hairs. Whole plant dull-green, with rather long hairs, 
which are remote, except on the pedicels and base of the calyx, 
where they are placed close together. 
_ Shrubby Cinquefoil. 
French, Potentille Ligneuse. German, Kleinbliithiger Génserich. 
The leaves of this species, as well as those of P. rupestris, are used in Siberia for 
making tea. 
