152 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



lanceolate. Stem piu'plisli, clothed with a hoary tomentum, under- 

 side of the leaves, jjedicels, and calyces hoary- wiiite. 



Soary Cinquefoil. 



French, Potentille argentee. GermaD, Silberweiser Ganserich. 



Section III.— FRUTICOSJ]:. Doll. 

 Stems woodyj perennial. 



SPECIES X.—POTENTILLA PRUTICOSA. Linn. 

 Plate CCCCXXXVI. 



Stems woody, branched. Leaves stalked, pinnate, with 2, rarely 

 3 pairs of lateral leaflets ; leaflets elliptical, entire, mucronate, 

 with the margins revolute, all approximate, the uppermost pair 

 confluent with the terminal one. Stipules with the free portion 

 long, elliptical, entire. Flowers terminal, in a corymbo-paniculate 

 cyme, or sub-solitary. Outer calyx-segments as long as the inner, 

 but narrower. Petals obovate, rounded at the apex. Receptacle 

 with long hairs. Carpels hirsute. 



In stony and bushy places in mountainous districts. Very 

 local. Abundant in Upper Teesdale, on both the Yorkshire and 

 Durham sides of the river Tees ; at Wastdale Screes, Cumber- 

 land ; and by the Don, west of Doncaster ; in counties Galway 

 and Clare, Ireland ; also reported from the falls of the Clyde, in 

 Scotland, but no doubt planted in that locality. 



England, [Scotland,] Ireland. Shrub. Summer and Autumn. 



A shrub 1 to 4 feet high, much branched, with the bark sepa- 

 rating in long flaky strips from the older branches. Leaves 

 numerous, rather shortly stalked. Leaflets nearly equal in size 

 (often so closely placed that the leaf appears to be digitate), -^ to 1 

 inch long. Flowei's large, yellow, 1 to IJ inch across. Sepals 

 long, the inner ones broadly lanceolate-triangular, the exterior ones 

 linear-elliptical, more rarely with sub-foliaceous tips. Carpels, as 

 well as the receptacle, completely covered with very close long 

 bristly hairs. AVhole plant dull-green, with rather long hairs, 

 which are remote, except on the pedicels and base of the calyx, 

 where they are placed close together. 



Shrubby Cinquefoil. 



French, Potentille Ligneuse. German, KleinhliUhiger Ganserich. 



The leaves of this species, as well as those of P. ru])estris, are used in Siberia fof 

 makin^r tea. 



