| − | Potentilla fruticosa, Linn. St. shrubby, much branched, mostly 1-4 ft. high, with peculiar shreddy bark: lvs. all cauline, pinnate; lfts. 3-7, small, 6-12 lines long, oblong-linear, acute, silky, with revolute margins: fls. numerous, bright yellow, showy, 8-16 lines broad; receptacle, carpels, and disk all long-hairy; style subbasal, clavate. June Aug. Boggy or dry, more or less calcareous soil, Eu., Asia, N. N. Amer. J.H. III. 31:602. A useful shrub, flowering throughout the summer. Var. Vilmoriniana, Bean, has lvs. silvery white beneath and fls. creamy white. Var. albicans, Rehd. & Wilson, is similar but has yellow fls. China, and cult. Var. dahurica, Lehm., is white-fld. L.B.C. 10:914 (as P. glabra). Var. Veltchii, Bean, white-fld., is P.fruti- cosa x P. dahurica (P. Friedricksenii, Spaeth). B.M. 8637. In nature, P. fruticosa runs into many forms.
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