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POTENTILLA rupestris.
Strawberry-flowered Cinquefoil.
ICOSANDRIA Polygynia.
G e n . C h a r . Cal. in 10 segments. Petals 5. Seeds
roundish, naked, generally wrinkled, affixed to a
small dry receptacle.
S p e c . C h a r . Leaves pinnate, somewhat lyrate, of seven,
five, or three ovate, serrated, hairy leaflets. Stem
erect.
S y n . Potentilla rupestris. Linn. Sp. PI. 711. Sm.
FI. Brit. 5 4 8 . Huds. 223. With. 4 7 3 . Hull M2,
ed. 2. 1 5 1 . Jacq. Austr. t. 1 1 4 .
Pentaphylloides erectum. Rail Syn. 255.
M r . LHWYD is said by Ray to have gathered this plant on
the sides of Craig Wreidhin, a mountain of Montgomeryshire.
We have never heard of its being found since, nor did
we ever see a British, specimen; that in the annexed plate
being therefore necessarily a garden one. We do not however
doubt of its growing in Wales, for it is even in Switzerland
a very local plant, and found very sparingly (see T o u r
o n t h e C o n t i n e n t , e d . 2 . v . 3. 169), so as probably to be often
overlooked.
The root is fibrous and perennial. Whole herb somewhat
hairy. Stem about a foot high, herbaceous, erect, branched,
corymbose, leafy, reddish. Leaves pinnate in a lyrate manner,
the leaflets ovate, obtuse, deeply serrated, veiny, green on
both sides; the lowermost leaves composed of 5 or 7 , the
uppermost of 3. Stipulas of the radical ones linear, acute;
of the rest roundish. Flowers white, much like those of a
garden strawberry. Calyx very hairy at its base. Seeds
smootji, not wrinkled, so that it perhaps belongs .as properly
to F r a g a r i a as the F . s t e r i l i s , t . 1785, whose fruit is likewise
destitute of pulp. It flowers in June, sometimes again late
in autumn, and is easily kept in a garden without any particular
care.