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Potentilla fruticofa americana. American 
Jhrubby Cinquefoil . 
This is a fmall fhrub, feldom rifing above two 
feet high, and fpreading into many branches. The 
leaves are fmall and thick fet upon the branches, they 
are winged, and compofed, generally, of five fmall, 
oblong hairy lobes, reflexed on their edges and {land- 
ing together. The flowers are produced pretty 
thick on the branches, of a yellow colour, and are 
fucceeded by fmall heads of pointed feeds. 
P R I N O S. 
The WINTER-BERRY. 
Clafs 6. Order i. Hexandria Monogynia. 
T HE Empalement is one leaved, plane, half- fix* cleft, very 
fmall, and permanent. 
The Corolla has one petal, wheel-ihaped. The tube none. The 
border is fix parted and plane: the divifions ovate. 
The Filaments are fix, awl-ihaped, ered and ihorter than the 
corolla. The Antherce are oblong and obtufe. 
The Get-men is ovate, ending in a Style Ihorter than the flamina, 
with an obtufe Stigma. 
1 he Seed-vejjel is a roundifh berry, with fix cells ; and far larg- 
er than the calyx. 
The Seeds are folitary, bony, obtufe, convex on one fide and 
angled on the other. 
Obf. Sometimes a fixth part of the number is excluded. 
There are two Species of this Shrub , viz. 
i. P rings glaber. Evergreen Winter- Berry « 
This grows in feveral parts of North America, 
rifing up with flender fhrubby flalks to the height of 
fix or eight feet, dividing into branches, which are 
garniihed 
