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POTENTILLA HOPWOODIANA. 
(mr. hopwood's cinquefoil.) 
class, order. 
ICOSANDRIA. POLYGYNIA. 
NATURAL ORDER. 
ROSACEiE. 
Generic Character. — Vide vol. v. p. 223. 
Specific Character. — Steins ascending, clothed with villi ; lower leaves with five or six leaflets, upper 
ones ternate ; leaflets oblong-cuneiform, coarsely toothed, hairy on both surfaces ; calycine segments 
ovate, acuminated. Petals obcordate, imbricated, longer than the calyx. — Don^s Gard. and 
Botany. 
There is a class of plants, certainly not a very extensive one, which, although 
easily and cheaply acquired, may be denominated permanently valuable, because 
really ornamental, of which we are anxious to afford occasional figures in this 
Magazine. Such we are persuaded will be more universally acceptable to our 
subscribers, particularly when accompanied with plates of new or exceedingly rare 
kinds, than an exclusive supply of those which are merely novel. 
Potentilla Hopwoodiana is a plant which, if sufficiently made known by good 
cultivation, will be found worthy of ranking in the order above noticed. Viewed 
at a proper period, and in a position favourable to the abstraction of the mind from 
every consideration of its comparatively little pecuniary value, we pronounce it 
one of the most splendid border flowers which have yet been brought to deck our 
gardens. We have seen single specimens of about three feet in height, presenting 
a compact mass full four feet in diameter, the entire surface of which has gleamed 
with the most vivid tints, combining every shade from the richest rose colour to 
the nearest and most delicate approach to white which it is possible for pink to 
assume. 
Regarded as a hybrid, a Potentilla^ procurable for a mere trifle, and having 
been some years in cultivation, many persons will probably despise this charming- 
plant ; but if once admitted into collections, and treated in any way accordant 
