582 356. Potentilla. 60. DRYADEiE. PL ex. caL 



Pcntaphyllum parvum hirsulnin, Raii Syn, 255, 3. 

 Pentaphylluin incanutn minus lepens, Ger. em. 989, 19. 

 Pentaphyllutn minus repens lanuginosum. Park. 399. 

 Potentilla verna, Lin. S. P. 712, 

 Potentilla serotina, Villars Delph. 3, 564. 



High barren pastures ; perennial ; April and May. 

 Stem branched, downy; root-leaves with long petioles; 

 petals golden-yellow. 



7. Potentilla opaca. Opake cinque/oil. 

 Root-leaves in sevens or fives ; leaflets ovate, wedgeshape, 



toothed, hairy; petals reverse heartshape, scaly, longer than 

 the calyx ; stem threadshape, decumbent. 



Potentilla opaca, Lin. S. P. 713. 

 I'ragaria vubens, Crantz Fasc, 75. 



Mountains; perennial; June. 



Stem very slender, tufted ; pe/a/5 golden-yellow, with a 

 brown spot at bottom. 



8. Potentilla aiirea. Golden cinquefoil. 



Root-leaves in fives; stem-leaves in threes; leaflets wedge- 

 shape; edges hairy, and toothed at the tip; hairs silky; 

 petals reverse-heartshape, larger than the calyx; stem de- 

 cumbent. 



Quinquefolium minus flora aureo, Ger. em. 990, 11, 

 Potentilla aurea, Lin. S. P. 712. 



Alps; perennial; July. 



Stem ascending, hairy ; leaves thin, membranaceous, 

 shining, paler underneath ; root-leaves with long petioles ; 

 peduncles very long, 1-flowered; petals deep golden or 

 orange-colour. 



c. Leaves digitate ; receptacle very hairy. 



9. Potentilla alba. " White cinqiiejoil. 

 Root-leaves in fives ; stem-leaves 3-leafletted ; leaflets oval, 



oblong, connivent at top, serrated, bald above, gray and 

 silky beneath ; stem threadlike, procumbent, shorter than 

 the leaves. ' 



Quinquefolintn sylvaticum majus, flora albo, Ger. em. 989, 10. 

 Potentilla alba, Lin. S. P. 713. 

 Fragaria alba, Crantz Fasc. 78. 



Alpine hills ; perennial ; July and August. 

 Stem much branched; petioles of the root-leaves very 

 long ; petals white. 



