Blair Collection > Flora Scotica: or, a systematic arrangement, in the Linnaean method, of the native plants of Scotland and the Hebrides > Volume 1

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from one point, which are ferrated on the upper
part generally with five but fomet'mes Teven pa-
rabohc dents, of which the central or exn-f-nie
one is the fliorteft : below the middle tliefc FclioU
have their edges entire, and are a little hairy on
both fides, but more lb on their edges. At the
bafe of the footftalks of the radical leaves are
two entire, lanceolate, hairy ttipul^. Upon the
flower-ftalks are wide, oval, lanceolate BraSiea^
which frequently coalefec at their bafe, and fup-
port between them a feffile leaf, divided into
three lobes, the central of which ij often triiid:
thefe Bratie^ are placed uiuler ihe ramifications
of the ftalk ^ for on the peduncles they are op-
pofite, fimple, and undivided. The Calyces are
hairy, the expanded Corclh a little more than
half an inch in diameter, the Petals either uni-
formly yellow, or fometimes orange-color'd at
the bafe.
The P. opaca be curea differ fo little from the P.
verna^ that Haher feems to think the firll ought
not to be diftinguifhed from it, (Hifi. Stirp. HeU
vet. n. 1 1 2c) and Scopoli aflirms the fecond to be
only a variety of it {Flor. Carniol 77.621.) They
differ only o^uoad tnajus ^ minus, but the general
habit, foil, figure of the petals, roots and leaves,
agree in all.
POTENTILLA foliis quinatis, caule repente, pe-
dunculis unifioris. Sp. pi. 714. {Ger. em. 987. /.
I. Moris.