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ovule is more distinctly pendulous and more perfectly anatropous. 

 Moreover, the receptacle does not become as thick and succulent as 

 in the Strawberries, generally remaining dry and covered with hairs. 

 To this genus we add below, as so many sections, a certain number 

 of aberrant types. 



Potentilla replant (Cinquefoit). 



A\'e may clearly see how badly the character of the consistency of 

 the receptacle distinguishes the Strawberries, and that the two genera 

 should strictly be united into one, for Comarum^ of which one species 

 is found in marshy places over a large part of Europe, has Iruits 

 with a spongy receptacle, not so dry as in most Potentils, or so 

 fleshy as in most Strawberries. 



Tnchothahniu'.r is Poteiifilla in which the hairs covering the recep- 

 tacle are longer and more numerous than in the other species. It 

 cannot be separated from the genus any more than Torment illa,^ whose 

 flower is usually tetramerous, a number only exceptionally found in 

 some other species. 



The androceuin is reduced in some uf the true Potentils, as indi- 

 cated by the specific name of P. pcntandra." 



Here, as in the Strawberries, the habit may vary very much. 

 There are woody or sufl'rutescent species like P. (uhui^viila, fnttivom, 



» L., Qen., II. 038.— (i.KKTN., Frucl., i. 34'J, 

 t. 73.--T0UK. & (iu., /'/. y. Am., i. 4-17. — 

 Enul., Gen., n. r>:i(;ii. T)ie jmrplo colour of Mil- 

 peUU of C. I'liliiMlre h. {Sjuc, 7\H -.—J'ulfn. 

 iilla Comaium Siuv., Fl. Carniul , ed. 2, v. i. 

 Sb^J ;— P. rubra Hall. F., Seu. .1/m*. Jhli\,i. 

 56 J — P. palustiiii Lkiim., Put., .02), in iii»uf- 

 ficifiit to <li!.liii(,'ui»li it Jroiii all tin- otluT I'tileii- 

 tiU. Hut it JK noteworthy tlmt the HlmneiiH iire 

 UHually twinty in iiuinlitr, and tiiut tlie five 

 (iiit4.Tm<M>l, hujutjiomhI lo tlio Mp.ilK, lift' fetUxod 

 to liuch an extent tlmt their antherii heiome «x- 

 trorne, at least at the heawMi of ferlili/.:ili..ii. 



The five leaves of the calycle are often detlupU- 

 euted. The enrpels ure very nuuierous. 



- Lehm., Aur. Act. Acad. Casar., x. 586. 

 t, Wi. — Lehit.aiin'ni Tii.vTT., Ku*. Aloitogr. iv. 



in. 



' TormenlUla en da L. {Spec, 716 ; — T*. 

 officinalis Sii., i'li/;/. Bot.,i. ^A ;— Potentilla 

 TtiimriitUla Xkstl., Man., (55. — ScilHANCK, 

 ex I.KiiM., .Uon., lUt; — DC, Prodr., n. 18;— 

 P. trtrapclala IIali.. I'.. Si:i(. .!/«... Ihle., i. 51 ; 

 — P. iiemonitis Nn*TL., loc. cit. ). 



* See Hknth. <.V. II(K)K., (*>«., 1121. 



