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1., the smaller stipules, the fl. twice as large, but especially in its 
mode of propagation : for the st. in autumn put out roots from 
the joints with a bunch of 1. and then decay, leaving alone the 
rooted joints which form so many distinct pi.” (Koch 240.) 
I still possess a spec, of a small dwarf state of this pi. ga- 
thered in July 1828 11 in montosis Maderensibus ” by my late 
friend Webb, and named by him Potentilla verna. 
“ P. anserina L.” IIoll’s List, in J. of Bot. i. 21, 41, is doubt- 
less a mere slip of the pen for the present pi. not otherwise 
mentioned by him, but which could not possibly have escaped 
his notice. The true P. cmsei'ina L. is certainly not found in 
Mad. Seubert mentions it, however, in his Flora Azorica as 
common in dry pasture-ground and by roadsides in the Azores. 
Potentilla rcptatis of Buch’s List is likewise a plain pen-slip 
for Tormentilla reptans L. or the present pi., which it is remark- 
able has not been found in any one of the Canarian Islands, 
though it occurs in the A^res. Mad. thus appears to be its 
southern limit. 
6. Fragaria L. 
Strawberry. 
1. F. VESCA L. Wood Strawberry. Mordngo. 
Lfts. membranous soft hairy, the 2 lateral subsessile ; hairs 
of petioles and ped. spreading, of pedic. adpressed upwards or 
erect ; sep. in fr. spreading or reflexed ; fr. globose or ovate, not 
contracted or barren at the base. — Desf. i. 402 ; Brot. ii. 349 ; 
Buch 197. no. 379; Hook. Fl. Sc. i. 162; EB. t. 1524; EBS. 
t. 2742; DC. ii. 569; Sm. E. Fl. ii. 414; Seub. Fl. Azor. 48. 
no. 357 ; WB. ii. 13 ; Koch 234 ; Bab. 95. — Herb. per. Mad. 
reg. 2, 3, ccc. Chestnut-woods, banks and mountain slopes, 
especially in thickets of Vaccinium , everywhere from 1500- 
4000 ft. ; abounding particularly on the heights above the di- 
strict of Porto da Cruz, and in the Valleys of Bib. Frio, Rib. 
da Metade, Rib. do Fayal and S. Vicente. Fl. throughout 
the year, chiefly in early spr. ; fr. April-July. — A small humble 
sparingly stolon-bearing gregarious pi. nearly concealed amidst 
surrounding herbage. Fl.-st. short erect 2-6 or 8 in. high scarcely 
or little higher than the 1., bearing scarcely more than 2-4 
small white fl. L. mostly radical stalked ; lfts. hairy-pubescent 
of a soft texture, obovate-cuneate coarsely serrate, bright gr. 
above, whitish or a little silvery beneath; the middle one sub- 
petiolate, the side ones more or less sessile. Stolons few and 
short, seldom more than a ft. long, produced from the root- 
stock after fl. Fr. small globose or ovate-globose not con- 
