POTENTILLA FILICAULIS (Nutt.).
Potentilla effusa hi/call/is Nutt.; Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Am. i : 437. 1840.
This is known from only two fragmentary specimens, one, the original of Nuttall, in the Torrey Herbarium at Columbia Univer sity, the othF.r collected by Dr. J. M. Coulter, in 1872, near Fort
Hale, and preserved in Dr. Porter's private collection. The stern is very slender, filiform. As the pubescence is somewhat silky, it is probably more related to the following species :*