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HAB. Rocky hilly pastures, and mountains. S., W. side of Arthur's 

 seat, and near the top of Craig-calleach in Breadalbane, Light/. 

 King's Park,' Edinb., and hills about N. Queensferry, common, 

 Maugh. FL May, June. I/ . 



This varies much in the alpine parts of the continent ; but with us is 

 a small woody recumbent plant of 4 5 inches in length, more or 

 less hairy. Leaflets obtuse.. Floiuers at the end of weak leafy 

 branches, '2 or 3 together on long footstalks, yellow. 



4. P. opaca (Saw-leaved hairy Cinque -foil], radical leaves of 

 7 or 5 oblougo- cuneiform deeply serrated hairy leaflets, petals 

 obcordate a little longer than the cal., stem filiform decum- 

 bent. E. B. t. 2449. 



HAB. Received by the late Mr. Donn, of Cambridge, from Scotland. 

 Hills of Clova, rare. Braes of Balquidder, Perthshire, G.Don. Fl. 

 June. I/. 



Larger in all its parts than P. verna, and, as Mr. Nestler observes, in 

 his excellent Monograph of the genus, very nearly indeed allied to 

 it. It differs, he says, in the stem and petioles being of a reddish 

 colour, and the whole plant of a more slender habit ; the radical 

 leaves are upon very long footstalks, and the Jlowers, when past 

 perfection, become drooping, having petals of a golden yellow with 

 a fulvous spot at their base. 



5. P. aurea (golden Cinque-foil), radical leaves quinate those 

 of the stem ternate, leaflets wedge-shaped their margins with 

 silky hairs deeply serrated at the extremity, petals obcordate 

 larger than the cat., stem decumbent. E.+B. S.561. 



HAB. Ben Lawers and other mountains in Breadalbane, Mr. J. 

 Machay in E. B. Near the summit of Ben-y-cailleach in Bread- 

 albane, Dr. Walker. Hills of Clova and Braes of Balquidder, G. 

 Don. FL June, July. ^ . 



'" Very different from P. verna, not only in the silky fringe, but also 

 in the form of the leaflets, which resemble those of Alchemilla al- 

 pina" Nestl. For my own part I wish more decided marks could 

 be found for distinguishing the 3 last species. 



6. P. reptans (common creeping Cinque-foil), leaves quinate, 

 leaflets obovato-cuneiform serrated, peduncles axillary single- 

 flowered longer than the leaf, stem filiform creeping. Lightf. 

 p. 27 1. E.B.t.8b2. 



HAB. Meadows and pastures, and by way-sides. Banks of the Clyde, 



near Dalbeth, Hopk. FL June Aug. 7/ . 

 'Stetns taking root at the joints, and throwing up at each joint a pair 



of leaves, which are a little hairy at the edges and nerves beneath, 



on long petioles. Smaller or exterior segments of the cal. as long 



as the rest, though narrower. 



*** Leaves ternate. 



1 . P. Iridenlata (trifid-leaved Cinyue-foil), leaves ternate, leak 

 lets oblongo- cuneiform three-toothed at the extremity gla* 



