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Small 3-4inches high, leaves and flowers very 

 small yellow. 



1241, Torm. fragaroides Raf. Fragaria 

 sterilis L. Potentilla fragariastrum Ehr. Pers. 

 Comarum do Roth Europe, paradoxical plant, 

 more akin to this G. by habit and gynophore 

 than to Comarum ; but very different from Fra- 

 garia and Potentilla, leaves and flowers as in 

 Fragaria, 5 white petals. 



1242, BOOTIA sylvestris Big. Eaton, Geiim 

 agrimonoides Pursh, Potentilla confertiflora 

 Tor. P. arguta Pursh,Beck, Hooker,--New Eng- 

 land, New York c, fine plant shuffled about, 

 a real G. gynophore as in last, calix with 5 nec- 

 tariferous pits, 5 entire petals, stamens mona- 

 delphous at the base, gynophore pbescent,seeds 

 awnless, lower leaves pinnate <jc. 



1243, Bootia cymosa Raf. Geum rupestris 

 vel viscosum R. mpt. 1817. pubescenssubvisco- 

 sa, fol. inferis petiol. pinnatis 5fol, superis suh- 

 sess. ternatis simplicisque, foliolis obov. ovatis 

 oblongis argute serratis, cymis 2-3chot. multiti. 

 Taconik Mts. and rocks of New York, blen- 

 ded with the last by all, but larger, leaves not 

 with 7-9 round folioles as iu last, fl. not in a 

 crowded'head. 



1244, Bootia ? sericea Raf. Pot. arguta 

 Lehm. non Pursh, pensylv. Beck villosa seri- 

 cea, caule simplex, fol. subsess. pinnatis foliolis 

 5-7 obi. sess. pectinato pinnatifidis acutis fl. 

 term, congestis subcorymb. bracteis stipujtsque 

 cristato pectinatis, petalis cal. vix longiorib. 

 Upper Missouri, Origon &c, quite silky white 

 even calix, is it a Potentilla akin to 1204 ? but 

 which is neither silky nor pinnate : my speci- 

 men is of Bradbury, t 



1245, COMARUM palustrc, L. Raf. fl. tel. 198 



