Localities. — On tbe summits of the Highland mountains of Scotland, in a 
micaceous soil ; common. — Aberdeenshire : Mountains above Loch Callater ; 
Avon Hills: Mr. H. C. Watson, in N. B. G. — Banffshire ; Belrinnes: G. 
Gordon, in N. B. G- — Forfarshire ; Glen Phu: W. Brands, in N. B. G. — 
On the mountains above the old Sonchus Station: Mr. II. C. Watson, in 
N. B. G. — Invernes-shire ; Badenoch side of Cairngorm: G. Gordon, in 
N. B. G. Nevis Mountains, at 2000 to 4000 feet: Mr. H. C. Watson, in 
N. B. G.— Perthshire : Near the summit of Ben More; Killin Mountains; 
and Ben Laivers: Mr. H. C. Watson, in N. B. G. — Ross-shire ; Ben Wevis ; 
G. Gordon, in N. B. G. — Sterlingshire ; North side of Ben Lomond, three- 
fourths of the way up the mountain, plentiful: Mr. Brown. — Sutherland ; 
Ben More: W. II. Campbell, in N. B. G. Ben Layal : Mr. H. C. Waison, 
in N. B. G. 
Perennial. — Flowers in July. 
Root woody, tufted, branched, blackish on the outside. Stems 
herbaceous, trailing, leafy, from 1 to 3 inches long, round, not 
much branched, hairy. Leaves alternate, compound, of 3 wedge- 
shaped, bright green, veiny leaflets, each leaflet entire at the edges, 
and 3-toothed at the summit, the middle tooth the smallest ; the 
lateral ones sometimes cloven. Petioles ( leafstalks J longer than 
the leaflets, each with a pair of attached, pointed, parallel, mem- 
branous stipulas at its base. Flowers small, in corymbose, leafy 
tufts. Calyx hairy, permanent. Corolla yellow, smaller than the 
calyx ; petals inversely egg-shaped, entire. Stamens very short. 
Styles 5, sometimes 10, affixed laterally to the middle of the Ger- 
men (see fig. 5). 
Whole plant somewhat hairy. Sir J. E. Smith is of opinion, 
that Plukenet’s figure (t. 212. f. 3.), which Linn.eus and Will- 
denow refer to this, belongs rather to Potentilla subacaulis , a 
much more soft and downy plant, with solitary flowers, of a larger 
size. (See Sm. Engl. FI.) 
Sibbaldia procumbens is a native, in moist places, in the moun- 
tains of Lapland, Switzerland, Siberia, and North America. With 
us it has only been found in Scotland. It is one of the rare plants, 
amongst many others, which Linnaeus was so delighted on finding 
at the commencement of his journey over the Lapland Alps. “ In 
the afternoon,” [of July 6, 1732, old style,] says this illustrious 
Naturalist, “ I took leave of Hytton, and, at the distance of a mile 
from thence, arrived at the mountain of [Vallavari (or Hwallawari ) , 
a quarter of a mile in height. When I reached this mountain, I 
seemed entering on a new world ; and when I had ascended it, 
I scarcely knew whether I was in Asia or Africa, the soil, situation, 
and every one of the plants being equally strange to me. Indeed 
I was now, for the first time, upon the Alps ! Snowy mountains 
encompassed me on every side. I walked in snow, as if it had 
been the severest winter. All the rare plants that I had previously 
met with, and which had from time to time afforded me so much 
pleasure, were here as in miniature, and new ones in such profu- 
sion, that I was overcome with astonishment, thinking I had now 
found more than I should know what to do with.” — Tour in 
Lapland, v. i. p. 283. 
