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neate leaflets, which are more or less deeply cut in their upper 

 half; stem-leaves ternate, nearly sessile ; stipules ovate, pointed, 

 entire or cut. Pedicels long, slender, hairy. Petals obcordate, 

 much longer than the sepals. Carpels smooth, on a hairy re- 

 ceptacle. There is a more erect, smaller, and less hairy form of 

 this plant. The flowers are larger and the carpels more nu- 

 merous.'^ 



Mountains. Perennial; June, July. 



P. verna, L. Spring Cinquefoil. — e.b. 37. l.b.s. 3.29. 

 A. 12. C. 25. Lat. 50-57°. Alt. 0-250 yds. Tern. 50-46°. 



Stems prostrate, sometimes rooting, forming a close tuft 

 (cushion?). Radical leaves 5-7, obovate, cuneate at the base, 

 toothed only on their upper half; teeth spreading, with prominent 

 nerves on the under side, of a light lively green ; stem-leaves ter- 

 nate or simple ; stipules of the root-leaves narrow, linear-subu- 

 late ? Pedicels filiform, hairy. Petals only a little longer than 

 the sepals. Carpels smooth, on a hairy receptacle. 



In hilly and mountainous open places. Perennial ; May. 



The petals are more veined in P. alpestris than in this species.f 



P. opaca, Lin. Hairy Cinquefoil. — e.b. 2449. l.b.s. Ex- 

 cluded Species, List C, p. 16. 



Root as in the preceding. Stems rigid, prostrate-ascending, 

 branched, hairy, and leafy. Root-leaves septenate; stem-leaves 

 quinate or ternate, sessile, with cuneate leaflets, which are cut or 

 serrated almost to the base, larger, hairier, and of a lighter green 

 than the leaver generally are in the two preceding species ; sti- 

 pules lanceolate or linear, mostly entire. Outer segments of the 

 calyx lanceolate, nearly as long as the inner (the outer sepals are 

 as long as the inner in some examples) ones, but not quite so 

 broad. Petals scarcely longer than the calyx. 



Scottish mountains. Perennial ; June. 



P. argentea, L. Hoary Cinquefoil. — e.b. 89. l.b.s. 3.28. 



* In this species the leaves are acumiuate, on short footstalks, singly or doubly- 

 serrated, teeth tipped with glands. Flowers 3-4, on long, erect peduncles, in tufts, 

 surrounded at the base of their stalks by brownish fringed or toothed involucral 

 scales. Sepals ovate-oblong, obtuse, reflexed. Petals rounded. 



t " How far the Potentilla alpestris is distmct from P. verna, I will not at- 

 tempt to decide ; but the appearance is different, and its mode of growth much 

 more loose and straggling."— Jfr. Joseph Woods, in Companion to Bot. Mag. 

 vol. i. p. 293. 



