ROSACEA. 115 



calycos, and marcjins of the leaves pilose : the surface of the leaves 

 and the calyx-seyments with scattered hairs. 



Spring Cinqiiefoil. 



French, Poientille du Printemps. 



SPECIES IV.— POTENTILLA ALPESTRIS. Uall.JUs. 



Plate CCCCXXIX. 



P. aurea, Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 501 (non Linn.). 

 P. venia, var. Benl/i. Handbook Brit. Bot. p. 194. 



P. salisbwrgensis, I/enke, iu Jacq. Collect. Vol. II. p. 68. Garde, Fl. v. N. & Mit. 

 Deutschl. ed. vi. p. 132. 



Flowering- stems elongated, ascending. Radical leaves digitate, 

 •with 5 wedge-shaped leaflets ; leaflets rounded at the apex, serrated 

 on the margins towards the apex. Stipules of the radical leaves with 

 the free portion lanceolate, those of the stem-leaves with it ovate- 

 elliptical. Flowers rather few, on very long peduncles, in very 

 lax terminal cymes. Outer segments of the calyx strap-shaped, 

 shoi'ter than the inner. Petals much longer than the calyx, hroadly 

 deltoid-obovate, notched. Receptacle hairy. Achenes smooth and 

 glabrous. 



On ledges of rock and grassy slopes on mountains. Rather 

 rare. It is said to occur in "Wales, and is certainly to be found in 

 Yorkshire, and probably in Westmoreland, and it is not uncommon 

 in the Breadalbane and Braemar mountains in Scotland. 



England, Scotland. Perennial. Summer. 



Very like P. verna, but of a brighter green colour, not at all 

 opaque, as is visually the case in that species. The flowering-stems 

 are erect or ascending from a decumbent base, 3 to 10 inches 

 high ; the petioles of the root-leaves sometimes 4 or 5 inches long, 

 and the leaflets themselves 1 inch long, more coarsely toothed; the 

 apex of the leaflet is much less truncate, from the central tooth 

 being little smaller than those on each side of it. The lower stipules 

 are broader and the upper ones rather narrower than those of P. 

 verna, the flowers more numcDiis, on longer peduncles, larger, 

 being 1 inch across, more showy from the petals being broadef at 

 the apex, and the calyx-segments are more unequal in size. 



Yellow Alpine Ciuqiiefoil. 



French, Poientille Alpestre. Gennan, Salzburgischer GUnsertrh. 



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