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P O T E N T I L L A fruticofa.
Shrubby Cinquefoil,
I C O S A N D R I A Polygynia.
G en. Char. Calyx in ten fegments. Petals five. Seeds
roundifh, naked, affixed to a Email dry receptacle.
Spec. Char. Leaves pinnated. Stem (hrubby.
Syn. Potentilla fruticofa. Linn. Sp. PI. 7 0 9 . HudJ.
FI. An. 2 1 2 . With. Bot. Arr. 5 3 1 .
Pentaphylloides fruticofa. Rail Syn. 2 5 6 .
S lN G U L A R in its genus for having a {hrubby ftem, three
or four feet high, much branched, clothed with a brown bark,
which cracks longitudinally, and falls off in fcaly portions. The
leaves cover the branches, and are alternate, pinnated, confift-
ing of five, rarely feven, oblong entire leaflets, the uppermoll
pair of which are decurrent, but they never run upwards into
the terminal one. Silvery hairs appear on feveral parts of the
plant, efpecially along the edge and nerve of the back of the
leaves, more flightly over their upper furface, and on the foot-
ftalks and flowerftalks. The flowers are bright yellow, folitary
at the end of each branch, very ornamental; the five external
leaves of the calyx oval, and remarkably large.
This plant, cultivated in almoft every fhrubbery for its beauty,
being covered with flowers throughout the fummer, grows wild
abundantly in the romantic neighbourhood of the river Tees in
the north of Yorklhire, where it was found in Ray’s time, and
from whence this fpecimen was fent by Mr. Robfon of Darlington
on the 1 4 th of June laft.