PotentillaJ] xxvii. rosacea : rose^ 



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quinate or ternate, sessile with a pair of ovate stipules. Flower-stalk 

 branched. Flowers of a deep dingy purple. 



8. PoTENTiLLA Linn. Cinque-foiL 



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. Cal. 8 — lO-cleffc, segments alternately smaller. Pet 4 — 5. 

 Style short, lateral or nearly terminal. Ovule suspended or as- 

 cending. Achenes numerous, minute, placed upon a small dry 

 flat receptacle. — Named from potens^ powerful^ from tlie medi- 

 cinal properties attributed to some of the species. 



* Leaves pinnate. Flowers yellow. 



C.) ; leaves pinnate, leaflets 

 entire, stem shrubby. E. B. 



1. P. fruticosa L. (shrubby 

 (generally 5) oblong-lanceolate 



t. 88. 



Rocky and bushy places, rare. 

 Teesdale, Durham, and Yorkshire. 



Wastdale Screes, Cumberland. 



By the river Don. near Doncas- 

 ter. Rock-forest, Clare, Ireland. P^ . 6,7. — Hairs on the recep* 

 tacle elongated. 



2. P. anserina L. (^Silver-weed); leaves Interruptedly pinnate 

 serrate silky especially beneath, peduncles axillary single- 

 flowered, stem creeping. E. B. t. 861. 



Moist meadows and road-sides, frequent. 1/.. 6,7. — Varying 

 much in the degree of silkiness ; sometimes silky and white on both 

 sides. Flowers large. Hairs on the receptacles in this and the next 

 shorter than the glabrous achenes. Leafiets lanceolate. * 



^* Leaves pinnate. Flowe'*'s white. 



3. P. rupestris L. (^Strawberry -floicercd C.) ; stem erect di- 

 chotomous, leaves pinnate, leaflets cuneate-ovate serrate hairy, 

 of the root leaves 5, of the cauline 3. E. B. t. 2058. 



Very rare, on Craig Breidhin, Montgomeryshire. %.. 5, 6. 



Flowers large. 



Achenes even, glabrous. 



*** Leaves digitate. Flowers yellow. (Hairs on the receptacle 



shorter than the glabrous achenes^) 



4. P. argentea L. (hoary C) ; leaves quinate, leaflets cunei- 

 form cut white and downy beneath, their margins revolute, 



stem decumbent or ascending. 



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Pastures and road-sides, especially in a gravelly soil. If.. 6, 7. — 

 Flowers terminal, small, subcorymbose. 



5. P, verna L. (Spring C) ; leaflets of root-leaves 5 — 7 obo- 

 vate green on both sides sharply-toothed upwards hairy on the 

 ribs beneath and at the edge, lower stipules linear acute, petals 

 obcordate longer than the calyx, stem prostrate. E. B. t. 37. 



Dry pastures, especially in hilly countries. 2/-., 4— 6. — A small, 



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