. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus 7. ROSE FAMILY. 2. Potentilla simplex Michx. Decumbent Five-finger. Fig. 2228. Potentilla simplex Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i : 303. 1803. Potentilla canadensis simplex T. & G. Fl. N. Am. i : 443. 1840. Rootstock short; stems slender, decumbent, ap- pressed-pubescent, 3° long or less. Leaves glabrous or nearly so above, silky appressed-pubescent be- neath,
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus 7. ROSE FAMILY. 2. Potentilla simplex Michx. Decumbent Five-finger. Fig. 2228. Potentilla simplex Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i : 303. 1803. Potentilla canadensis simplex T. & G. Fl. N. Am. i : 443. 1840. Rootstock short; stems slender, decumbent, ap- pressed-pubescent, 3° long or less. Leaves glabrous or nearly so above, silky appressed-pubescent be- neath, the basal and lower ones S-foliolate; stipules lanceolate; petioles appressed-pubescent; leaflets oblong to oblanceolate or obovate, coarsely toothed except near the base, i'-2j' long; peduncles solitary in the axils of upper leaves, i'-2' long, appressed- pubescent; bractlets linear-lanceolate, 2"-24" long, about equalling the slightly broader calyx-lobes; petals yellow, obcordate, 2^"-3" long; stamens 20- 25; styles filiform. Shaded grassy situations, Nova Scotia to North Caro- lina, Alabama, Minnesota and Missouri. May-July. Potentilla pumija Poir. Dwarf Five-finger. Fig. 2229. P. pitmila Poir. in Lam. Enc. Meth. 5 : 594. 1804, Potentilla canadensis pumila T. & G. Fl. N. A. i: 443. 1840. Low, seldom more than a few inches high; flow- ering stems at first very short and upright; later producing slender prostrate runners; whole plant densely silky-strigose, with appressed pubescence; basal leaves digitately 5-foliolate, on slender peti- oles; stem-leaves few and often only 3-folioIate; leaflets obovate, sharply serrate, usually less than i' long; stipules small, lanceolate; flowers few, yellow, 3"-s" broad, the first from the axil of the first stem-leaf; petals broadly obovate, slightly exceeding the narrowly lanceolate sepals and bractlets; stamens about 20. Georgia and Ohio. Please note that these images are extracted from scan
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