416 ICOSANDRIA— POLYGYNIA. Potentilla. 



naked, roundish, generally more or less wrinkled, cover- 

 ing the surface of a small, dry, globular, permanent, un- 

 altei-ed receptacle, to which each is laterally attached, 

 below the insertion of its style. 



Mostly perennial ; rarely shrubby. Leaves alternate ; pin- 

 nate, digitate, or ternate ; for the most part deeply ser- 

 rated, or cut. Stipiilas in pairs, united to the base of each 

 footstalk. Fl. terminal and aggregate, rarely axillary and 

 solitary ; scentless, yellow, more rarely white, very sel- 

 dom reddish, never blue. Qualities astringent. 

 * Leaves pinnate. 



1. V.fruticosa. Shrubby Cinquefoil. 



Leaves pinnate, entire, hairy. Stem shrubby. 



P. fruticosa. Linn. Sp. PL 709. M'illd. v. 2. 1 094. Fl. Br. 547. 

 Engl. Bot. V. 2. t. 88. Dicks. H. Sicc.fasc. 6. 12. Ehrh. Arb. 135. 

 Nestl. Potent. 30. t. 1, bis.f. A. 



Pentaphylloides fruticosa. RaiiSyn.256. Cat. Pl.Jngl. ed. 2. 228. 

 t. 1. Engl. Gard. Cat. 54. t. 14. 



P. rectum fruticosum Eboracense. Moris, u. 2. 193. serf. 2. t.23.f.5. 



P. fruticosa elatior, minus hirsuta. Jmm.Rutk. 88. 1. 1 7. Herb. Linn. 



In mountainous thickets, but rare. 



About Greta bridge, Mickle force, Egglestone abbey, and several 

 other places in Teesdale. Pay. Found there abundantly by 

 Mr. Robson and Mr Bicheno. 



Shrub. June. 



Stem bushy, woody, 3 or 4 feet high, leafy, with a deciduous 

 cuticle. Leaves stalked ; le(fiets 5, rarely 7 , oblong, acute, 

 revolute, about an inch in length, clothed more or less densely 

 with close hairs, especially at the edges ; paler beneath ; the 3 

 terminal ones confluent and decurrent : uppermost leaves ter- 

 nate only. Fl. terminal, stalked, somewhat aggregate, large, of 

 a golden yellow, copiously produced duringsummer andautumn, 

 which recommends this shrub to the notice of cultivators in ge- 

 neral. The outer segments of the calyx, taken by Dr. Nestler 

 for bracteas, vary greatly in size and shape, and are sometimes 

 cloven, as appears by my specimens from various countries. The 

 two extremes may be seen in the figure in Engl. Bot., and Dr. 

 Nestler's t. 1, bis, f. A. 1 presume to think his P. davurica 

 is but a variety; as t. 18./. 1, of Amman is acknowledged to be. 

 P. Salcsoviiof Willdenow is justly expunged by DeCandoUe. A 

 Siberian specimen in the Linnaean herbarium, of Amman's t. 17, 

 sent by Gmelin, which in this case is the original authority, is 

 just as hairy in the foliage as our Yorkshire plant, and nearly 

 agrees in the calyx. 



Duhamel in his Arbres, v. 2. t. 20, has given as a representation of 

 P. fruticosa, the wooden cut of Valgrisius, which belongs to the 

 widely difterent P.argenfea ; see that species. 



