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xxvii. rosacea: : rosea:. {Potentilla. 
Pastures and road-sides, especially in a gravelly soil. 71. 6, 7. — 
Flowers terminal, small, subcorymbose. 
5. P. verna L. ( Spring C .) ; leaflets of root-leaves 5 — 7 obo- 
vate green on both sides sharply -toothed upwards hairy on the 
ribs beneath and at the edge, lower stipules linear acute, petals 
obcordate longer than the calyx, stem prostrate. E. B. t. 37. 
Dry pastures, especially in hilly countries. 71-4 — 6. — A small, 
woody, procumbent plant, 3 — 5 inches in length. Flowers at the 
end of weak leafy branches. 
6. P. alpestris Hall. fil. ( orange alpine C .) ; radical leaves of 
5 wedge-shaped somewhat hairy leaflets deeply cut in the 
upper half, stipules obtuse, upper ones ovate, lower ones lan- 
ceolate, petals heart-shaped, stem ascending. P. aurea E. B. 
t. 561 (not Z.). 
Mountains of the north of England. Wales. Breadalbane and 
Clova mountains of Scotland. !{.. 6, 7. — We have endeavoured, 
hut in vain, to detect some certain character by which this might be 
distinguished from P. verna; the extreme vars., it is true, do appear 
distinct, but they insensibly pass into each other. In general, however, 
the terminal tooth of the leaflets is prominent, giving them a rounded 
form at the apex, while in P. verna it is shorter than the others, caus- 
ing the leaflets to appear truncate or emarginate. If retained as a 
species, surely the name Salisburqensis, given to it by Haenke, should 
be preferred to the much more recent one of the younger Haller. 
7. P. *opdca L. ( Saw-leaved hairy C.) ; radical leaves of 7 
hairy linear wedge-shaped leaflets deeply serrate throughout, 
stem-leaves ternate mostly opposite, stems ascending, petals 
about as long as the calyx obcordate-cuneate. E. B. t. 2449. 
P. intermedia, Nestl. Pot. t. 8. 
Received from Scotland (perhaps from a garden) by the late Mr. 
Donn of Cambridge. Hills of Clova; Braes of Balquidder; and 
rocks by the sea-shore opposite to Dundee : G. Don ; hut found by 
no one else. 7L. 6. — We have specimens of this, said by Mr. G. 
Don to have been found wild by him, and others from his garden at 
Forfar. The leaflets are coarsely serrate to the base, and in this 
respect, as well as in its stouter habit, it differs from the two pre- 
ceding species. All botanists are not quite agreed that P. opaca L. 
and P. intermedia Nestl. (or P. opaca Jacq.) are the same ; the former, 
from Linnaeus saying that the stem is filiform and confounding it 
with P. verna , is not the supposed Scotch plant, if the two be dis- 
tinct ; it has petals longer than the calyx, while they are of the same 
length in P. intermedia. But to us it is very doubtful if the last be 
not the luxuriant or cultivated form of the other. 
8. P. reptans L. ( common creeping C .) ; stem filiform pro- 
strate creeping, leaves long-stalked, leaflets 5 obovate-cuneiform 
