GAEDEN AVENS. 



PotentiUa alpcstrU. 



NDER the genns Genm a 

 sjarden avensshould certainly 

 be ranked^ but tliis^ thongli 

 very nearly allied^ is not 

 strictly an avens, but a 

 cinquefoil, and its botanical 

 name is PotentiUa alpestris, 

 otherwise the orange alj)ine 

 cinquefoil, occasionally re- 

 gistered as Poteiifilla salis- 

 /jitrtjeiixU. It is also known 

 as the mountain cinquefoil, 

 and may be looked for hope- 

 fully on mountains in the 

 north of England and North 

 Wales, and on the Breadal- 

 bane and Clova mountains in 

 Scotland. Where it occurs 

 there will usually also be found the smaller spring cinquefoil, 

 PotentiUa verna, a very variable plant, which is often so 

 like this P. alpextris that by many botanists the two are 

 considered as forms of one and the same species. They 

 are proper plants for the garden, and more especially for 

 the rockery, needing always a moist soil and a sunny 



