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POTENTILLA McNABXANA. 
to grow and flower, as it may happen to do, it will prove suitable. When growing 
on a border, it should not, in the flowering season, be bundled up, tied, or supported 
in any way, as is too often the case with similar plants, to the sad sacrifice of all 
their charm, and any exhibition of character; but ought to be kept erect by as hidden 
means as can be employed, and so that the least restraint imaginable appears in 
exercise. The comparative dwarfness of P. McNabiana will admit it to more select 
situations than many other Potentillas. 
Some of the species have supposed medical qualities ; hence the generic name, by 
Linnseus, from potens, powerful. 
