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XXVII. ROSACEiE ; ROSE^. 



■5 inches in length. 



IPotcntilln 



Flowers at the 



woody, procumbent plant, S- 

 end of weak leafy branches. 



6. P, alpestris Hal. fiL (orange alpine C.) ; radical leaves of 

 5 wedge-shaped somewhat hairy leaflets deeply cut hi the upper 

 half, stipules obtuse, upper ones ovate, lower ones lanceolate 

 petals heart-shaped, stem ascending. P. aurea E. B, t. 561 



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Clova rnountahis of Scotland. 



Wales. Breadalbane and 



Mountains of the north of England. 



. . 11' 6. 7. — We have endGavoiirecT 



but in vain, to detect some certain character by which this might be dis' 

 tinguished from P. verna; the extreme vars., it is true, do appear dis." 

 tinct, but they Insensibly pass into each other. In general, however" 

 the terminal tooth of the leaflets is prominent, giving them a rounded 

 form at the apex, while in P. verna it is shorter than-the others, caus- 

 ing the leaflets to appear truncate or emarginatc. If retained as a 

 species, surely the name Salisburgensis, given to it by Jacquin, should 

 be preferred to the much more recent one of the younger Ilaller. 



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hairy linear wedge-shaped leaflets deeply serrate throuohout 

 stem-leaves ternate mostly opposite, stems ascending, petals' 

 about as long as the calyx obcordate-cuneate. JE, B?U 2449 

 P. intermedia, Nest. Pot. t. 8. 



Received from Scotland (perhaps from a garden) by the late Mr 

 Donn of Cambridge. Hills of Clova; Braes of Balquidder; and 

 rocks by the sea-shore opposite to Dundee ; G. Don; but found by 

 no one else. 2/.. 6.™ We have specimens of this, said by Mr. d 

 Bon to have been found wild by him, and others from his garden at 

 Forfar. The leaflets are coarsely serrate to the base, and in this 

 respect, as well as in its stouter habit, it differs from the two pre- 

 ceding species. All botanists are not quite agreed that P. opaca L 

 and P. inter^nedia Nestl. (or P. opaca Jacq.) are the same ; the former, 

 from Llnn^us saying that the stem is filiform and confounding it 

 with P. verna, h not the supposed Scotch plant, if the two be dis- 

 tinct , it has petals longer than the calyx, while they are of the same 

 length in P. intermedia. But to us it is very doubtful If the last be 

 not the luxuriant or cultivated form of the other. 



8. P. reptans L. (common creeping C.) ; stem filiform pro- 

 strate creeping, leaves long-stalked, leaflets 5 obovate-cuneiiorm 

 serrate, peduncles axillary solitary single-flowered longer than 

 the leaf, achenes granulated scabrous. E. B. t. 862. 



Meadows, pastures, and way-sides. l^. 6—9,— Stems taking 

 root at the joints. Flowers yellow. 



9. P. Tormentilla Sibth. (TormentiT) -, stem-leaves ternate 

 those at the base of the peduncles sessile, leaflets lanceolate or 

 obovate-cuneiform inciso-serrate, stem procumbent or ascend- 

 ing dichotomous upwards, achenes wrinkled. — a. leaves all 

 sessile acute except those of the root, stem ascending. Tormea- 



