anferina.
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P O T E N T I L L A
Silver-weed, or Wild Tanfey.
ICOSANDRIA Polygynia.
G en. Char. Cal. in io fegcnents. Petals Seeds
roundifh, naked, generally wrinkled, affixed to a
fmall dry reeeptacle.
Spec. Char. Leaves interruptedly pinnated, ferrated,
filky beneath. Stem creeping. Flower-ftalks tingle-
flowered.
Syn. Potentilla anferina. Linn. Sy. PI. y io . Sm. Pi.
Brit. 548. Hudf. 222. With. 473. Hull. 112.
Ilelh. 196. Sibth. 161. Abbot. 113. Curt. Land,
fafc. 3. t. 31.
Pentaphylloides Argentina, didla. Rail Syn. 256.
-A .N elegant though common plant, generally met with in
ofier-holts and meadows, in alight black fpongyfoil, flowering
principally in June and July.
Root perennial, throwing oU4 many long trailing fmooth
reddifh (terns, whieh take root at their joints, where the leaves
and flowers alfo come forth. Leaves of a lyrate form, interruptedly
pinnate, deeply and tharply ferrate, mod filky or filvery
beneath ; the radical ones largeft and mod; numerous. Stipulre
acute, entire. Flower-ftalks fimple, folitary, moftly upright,
butfometimes deprefled, each bearing a large handfome bright-
yellow flower. Calyx hairy, its fmaller intermediate fegments
generally notched. Petals roundifh, or but (lightly emarginate.
Germens very hairy. Seeds feldom perfected.— Sometimes
the leaves are fmooth, and deftitute of that filky down which
gives them their chief beauty.
This cannot be confounded with any other Britifli Potentilla.
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