14A ENGLISH BOTANY, 



Rootstock woody, branched ; branches terminating in a barren 

 shoot having a few leaves on stalks 1 to 8 inches long. Leaflets 

 1 to 2 inches long, resembling those of a strawberry, but without 

 the lateral veins being distinctly depressed above as in that plant. 

 Plowering-stems produced below the barren tuft, from the axils of 

 the leaves of the previous season, at first short, but afterwards 

 lengthening until they are sometimes 6 inches to 1 foot long, fur- 

 nished with shortly stalked ternate leaves or the upper ones with 

 the lateral lamina suppressed and the remaining one oval. Stipules 

 of the lower stem-leaves with the free portion roundish-ovate, blunt, 

 those of the upper lanceolate-acute. Cyme so lax that the flowers 

 appear solitary. Flowers ^ inch across, white. Inner calyx-seg- 

 ments triangular, outer ones strap-shaped and shorter. Recep- 

 tacle with the hairs longer than the other British species, except 

 P. fruticosa. Plant greyish-green, more or less pilose ; the young 

 leaves silky beneath. 



Barren Strawberry. 



French, Poientille Fraisi&r. German, Erdbeerhlattriger Ganserich: , 



SPECIES III.— PO TEN TILL A VERNA. Lirm. 

 Plate CCCCXXVIII. 



Plowering-stems short, procumbent. Radical leaves digitate, with 

 5 (more rarely 7) wedgeshaped-obovate leaflets ; leaflets truncate 

 and 3-toothed at the apex, serrated on the margins towards the apex. 

 Stipules of the radical leaves with the free portion linear-subulate, 

 those of the stem-leaves with it ovate-lanceolate, Flowers few, 

 on rather long erect peduncles, in lax terminal cymes. Outer seg- 

 ments of the calyx elliptical, shorter than the inner. Petals longer 

 than the calyx, obovate, notched. Receptacle hairy, Achenes 

 smooth, glabrous. 



On dry banks and rocks. Rather rare. Sparingly distributed 

 from Devonshire as far North as Forfarshire. 



England, Scotland, Perennial. Early Summer. 



Rootstock woody, much branched, the divisions terminating in 

 a barren shoot. Flowering-stems 1 to 6 inches long. Radical 

 leaves on stalks ^ to 2 inches long, with the central segment the 

 largest, J to f inch long, truncate at the apex, from the central 

 tooth being smaller than the others; stem-leaves smaU, lower 

 ones with 3 leaflets, upper with 1 3-cleft leaflet. Flowers usually 

 3 together, but sometimes solitary, f inch across, bright yeUow. 

 Inner calyx-segments ovate, outer ones oblong-elliptical. Petals 

 longer than broad. Receptacle with hairs shorter than the achenes, 

 Achenes reniform. Plant dull greyish-green, the stems, peduncles, 



