ICOSANDRIA. POLYGYNIA. Potentilla. 635 
bent: petals obcordate, longer than the calyx: E.) stem-leaves 
ternate. 
E . Bot. 37 — Kniph. 8— Allion. 24. 2—■ Clus . ii. 106. 2— Ger. Em. 988. 8— 
J. B. ii. 398. a. 1— Crantz. ii. 1. 1. 
Root below clothed with broad rusty-coloured scales., but throwing out 
several stems from its head. Stems not creeping, ascending, purplish, 
much branched, slightly sprinkled with hairs, many flowered. Petals 
yellow, notched, with or without a tawny spot at the base. Stamens 
and pistils yellow. Plant when grown to maturity nearly smooth. Linn. 
Whole plant beset with soft, shining, silky hairs. Root-leaves roundish, 
on long leaf-stalks. Leafits wedge-shaped, sessile, serrated, and truly 
dented at the end, entire downwards, the upper one the largest. Stems 
numerous, (several inches long, spreading in patches. E.) Stem-leaves 
three-cleft. Leaf-scales in pairs, spear-shaped, embracing the stem. 
Fruit-stalks terminal and axillary, long, slender, each with one flower. 
Floral-leaves spear-shaped. Calyx segments not very unequal, half as 
long as the blossom. Petals inversely heart-shaped. Woodw. 
Spring Cinquefoil. Rocky mountainous pastures. Near Preston. Gig- 
gleswick, Yorkshire; Gloggaeth, Carnarvonshire. Pennant. Near Finlarig, 
Breadalbane. King’s Park, Edinburgh, on the south-west side of Ar¬ 
thur’s Seat. Dr. Hope. Near Carr End, Wensleydale, Yorkshire. Curtis. 
Canham Heath, near Bury, Suffolk. Mr. Woodward. Braid Hills and 
Craig Lochart, near Edinburgh. Mr. Brown. Wick Cliffs, Glostershire. 
Rev. G. Swayne. P. April—June. 
(P. opa'ca. Radical-leaves of seven hairy, linear-wedge-shaped leafits, 
deeply serrated throughout: stem-leaves ternate, mostly oppo- 
site: stems recumbent. 
E. Bot. 2449— Jacq. 1c. Rar. 91. 
Leafits constantly seven, dark green, with numerous deep marginal serra- 
tures. Flowers numerous, on long, simple, solitary, axillary, or panicled 
and bracteated, downy, hairy stalks. Cal. hairy, its outer segments 
narrow, as long as the rest. Petals the same length, bright yellow, orange 
coloured towards the base. Seeds corrugated. 
Not so nearly resembling P. verna as authors have imagined. 
Saw-leaved Hairy Cinquefoil. P. opaca. Linn. Willd. Jacq. Hall. 
Nestl. Don. Sm. Hook. Received from Scotland by the late Mr. Don 
of Cambridge. Hills of Clova, Angus-shire: Braes of Balquidder, Perth¬ 
shire. Mr. G. Don. P. June. Sm. Eng. FI. E.) 
(P. alpes'tris. Radical-leaves of five wedge-shaped, somewhat hairy 
leafits: deeply cut in their upper half: upper stipulie ovate: 
petals heart-shaped: stems ascending. E.) 
(E. Bot. 561. E .)—Fl. Ban. 114. 
This has been suspected to be a var. P. verna, but its habit is very diffe¬ 
rent. 
Stems decumbent at the base, then ascending, from four to eight or ten 
inches high, branched, leafy, somewhat compressed, loosely hairy. 
Calyx externally hairy; segments acute, somewhat unequal. Petals 
tawny yellow, or orange, inversely heart-shaped, as long, or longer than 
the calyx. 
