POTENT! LLA. COM A HUM. 
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acute deeply toothed covered vvitli silky hairs on both sides, ca- 
lyx-segments elongated acute silky. — Road-sides and hanks, (i. 
Usan, Forfarshire. Mr. Lindsay Carneyie. y. Milton, North- 
amptonshire. Rev. M. J. Berkeley. P. VI. — IX. 
8. P. Tormentilla (Nesl.) ; st. procumbent or ascending, 1. ter- 
natc sessile or shortly stalked, lower 1. (piinate on long stalks, 
leatlets lanceolate inciso-serrate, carpels lonyitndinally wrinkled. 
— Tormentilla officinalis (L.) B. B. 863. St. 34. 12. — Leatlets 
acute, somewhat hairy. L. all nearly sessile excej)t the lowest 
which often have long stalks. Stip. deeply cut. FI. small, yel- 
low, usually with 8 sep. and 4 pet. but varying greatly in that 
respect. {Mag. Nat. Hist. vi. 248.) — (3. procumbens ; leaflets 
obovate-cuneate deeply cut, 1. all shortly stalked, stip. entii-e or 
trifid. FI. usually larger. T. reptans (L.) if. jB. 864. — In dry 
places. /3. Woods and hedge-banks. P. VI. — VIII. 
** Hairs on the receptacle elongated, carpels hairy at the scar 
or all over. 
9. P . fruticosa {\j.) shrubby ,1. pinnate, leaflets mostly 5 ob- 
long acute entire hairy with revolute margins. — E. B. 88. — St. 
3 — 4 feet high. FI. large, yellow, terminal, somewhat aggregated. 
— Teesdale. Galway. Clare. Sh. VI. VII. E. I. 
i| [10. P. alba (L.); st. weak ascending, 1. quinate, leaflets elliptic- 
ii oblong narrowed below silky beneath tipped with converging ser- 
ratures, filaments and carpels glabrous except at the seal- of the 
latter. — E. B. 1384. St. 4. 2. — F'l. white. Stem 1. ternate. — 
Said to have been found in Wales. Huds. P. VI.] E. ? 
11. P. tridentata (Sol.); st. woody creeping at the base, 
1. ternate, leaflets oblong-cuneate with 3 teeth at the end glabrous 
above hairy beneath, filaments glabrous, carpels downy. — E. B. 
2389. — FI. white. — “ Werron Hill, and East rocks Loch Brandy,” 
Clova. Mr. G. Don. P. VI. S. 
12. P. Fragariastrurn (Ehrh.) ; st. procumbent, 1. ternate, 
leaflets roundish obovate serrate silky on both sides, carji. glabrous 
except at the scar smooth or wrinkled transversely. — E. B. 1785. 
— F’l. small, white. — Woods, banks. P. IV. V. Barren Straw- 
berry. 
11. CoMARUM 
1. C. palustre (L.). — if. P.172. — St. ascending, 1 foot high, 
. reddish. L. pinnate. Leaflets 5 — 7, elliptie-oblong, acute, 
sharjily serrate. F'l. several, dark purple ; cal. purple within ; 
' pet. small. Differing from Potentilla, to which it perhaps ought 
to be joined, by its enlarged spongy receptacle.- — Marshes and 
peaty bogs. P. VII. 
