420 ICOSANDRIA— POLYGYNIA. Potentilla. 



Those in Fl. Dan. are less exact. I think however there can be 

 no question about any of the synonyms given above. Mr. Se- 

 ringae is not happy in his representation of the leaflets, at least 

 of his cultivated specimen. 

 In reply to a question of this gentleman, in his Mus. v. 1 . 73, I must 

 observe that his P. Halleri, so admirably delineated in Haller's 

 Hist. i. 21 ./. 4, is the original authority for P. aurea, taken up 

 by Linnaeus without seeing a specimen, as his manuscript shows. 

 In Sp. Fled. 1, he had referred Haller's plant to verna. He 

 long afterwards received from Seguier our present P. alpistris, 

 which he marked aurea, and this might well mislead me. This 

 specimen however he has no where described in his works. 

 Some others of the same species he confounded, like Haller, 

 with verna. I trust this manifold error will now be set at rest 

 . by the establishment of P. alpestris. Nestler has altogether 

 misled Prof. Hooker respecting this and P. opaca. 



6. P. verna. Spring Cinquefoil. 



Radical leaves of five or seven, obovate-wedge-shaped, 

 partly serrated, furrowed leaflets; bristly at the margins 

 and ribs beneath. Upper stipulas chlated. Calyx-seg- 

 ments partly three-ribbed. Stems procumbent. 



P. verna. Linn. Sp. PL 712. Willd. v. 2. ]\04. FL Br. 550. EngL 



Bot.v. \.t.Z7. Dicks. H. Sicc.fasc. 13. 19. Hook. Scot 162. 



NestL Potent. 51. HulLjun. in Ser. Mus. v. 1. 52. Ser. Mus. 



V. 1. 70. Villars Dauph. v. 3. 564. 

 Pentaphyllum parvum hirsutum. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 398 a. f. Rail 



Syn. 255. 

 P. incanum minus repens. Ger. Em. 989./. 

 Quinquefolium repens minus luteum. Bauh. Pin. 325 ,• according 



to his herbarium. NestL 

 Q. minimum genus. Trag. Hist. 505. descr. good. 

 Q. quarti prima species. Clus. Pann. 428./. 

 Q. quarti, flavo flore, secunda species. Clus. Hist. v. 2. 106./. 

 Fragaria n. 1 1 1 9 a. HalL Hist v. 2. 48. 

 F. verna. Crantz Austr. fuse. 2.^2. t.\.f.\. 

 Small Rough Cinquefoil. Pet. H. BriL t. 4 1 ./. 4, 



In elevated pastures, and barren hilly ground 



Near Kippax, Yorkshire. Rev. W. Wood. About Bury, Suffolk. 

 Sir T. G. Cullum. Cambridgeshire. Relhan. On St. Vincent's 

 rocks, Bristol ; and in the King's Park, Edinburgh. 



Perennial. April, May. 



Root woody, creeping. Herb often reddish. Stems several, spread- 

 ing on the ground in circular patches often many inches wide, 

 somewhat branched, leafy, round, hairy. Radical leaves on 

 longish footstalks clotlied with nearly upright straight hairs ; 

 leaflets 5, rarely 7, obovate or somewhat wedge-shaped, rigid 



