POTENTILLA EGEDII Wormsk. Fl. Dan. 9: fasc. 27. 5.
Patentilia Anserina Egedii Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Am. I : 444. 184.0.
Potentilla Anserina Give/dam/lc-a Tratt. Ros. Mon. 4: no. 13. 1824.
I think that this is a good species, differing from P. Anserzna in the delicate habit, the deeper and more open incisions of the leaf lets and the scant pubescence. In the specimens examined by me the achenes were also different in shape. In P. Egedii they were decidedly lenticular, while in P. Anserina the upper end is thicker
and rounded-triangular in cross-section.
P. is an arctic species, found from Greenland to Alaska, and extending southward on the coasts to Maine and Oregon.
The Frnticosae differ from the other groups of North American Potent//lac in the following respects : The style is lateral, ovule ascending, achene hairy and the plant more or less shrubby. The American species are :