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6. Shrubby Potentil. Potentilla fruticosa, Linn. (Fig. 312.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 88.) 



Differs from all other European species 

 by the stem, the lower portion of which 

 becomes woody, forming an erect or 

 spreading shrub or under shrub, often 

 very low, but sometimes attaining 2 feet 

 in height ; the short flowering-branches 

 die down as in other Potentils. Stipules 

 narrow and thin. Leaflets usually 5, 

 narrow and entire ; the three upper ones 

 often shortly connected at the base ; the 

 two lower inserted at some distance from 

 them, so as to form a pinnate rather 

 than a digitate leaf. Peduncles terminal 

 or opposed to the leaves, each with a 

 single, rather large, yellow flower. 



In bushy or stony places, chiefly in 

 mountain districts, widely diffused over 

 Europe, central and Russian Asia, and 

 North America, but not generally com- 

 mon. In Britain, only in a few localities 

 in the north of England, and in Clare and Gralwav in Ireland. FL summer. 



Fiff. 312. 





7. Goose Potentil. Potentilla anserina, Linn (Fig. 313.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 861. Silver -weed.) 



Stock tufted, with long creeping run- 

 ners rooting at the nodes, as in the creep- 

 ing JP. Leaves pinnate, with numerous 

 oblong, deeply toothed leaflets, green or 

 somewhat silky on the upper side, of a 

 shining silver-white underneath from 

 the silky down with which they are co- 

 vered. Peduncles long, solitary at the 

 rooting nodes, bearing a single, rather 

 large, yellow flower. 



Common on roadsides, in stony pas- 

 tures, and waste places throughout Eu- 

 rope, Russian and central Asia, and a 

 great part of North America, extending 

 to the Arctic regions, and reappearing in 

 the southern hemisphere. Abundant in 

 Britain. FL summer. 



