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POTENTILLA GRANDIFLORA. LARGE-FLOWER'D POTENTILLA.


_Class and Order._

ICOSANDRIA POLYGYNIA.

_Generic Character._

_Cal._ 10-fidus. _Petala_ 5. _Sem._ subrotunda, nuda, receptaculo parvo
exsucco affixa.

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

POTENTILLA _grandiflora_ foliis ternatis dentatis utrinque subpilosis,
caule decumbente foliis longiore, _Lin. Syst. Vegetab. p. 715._

FRAGARIA sterilis, amplissimo folio et flore petalis cordatis, _Vaill.
Paris. 55. t. 10. f. 1._

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Culture is well known to produce great alterations in the appearance of
most plants, but particularly in those which grow spontaneously on dry
mountainous situations, and this is strikingly exemplified in the
present instance, this species of _Potentilla_, becoming in every