POTENTILLA MINUTIFOLIA 11. sp.
Cespitose, stems about 1 dm. long, slender, 1-2-leaved, spar ingly silky or nearly glabrous, slightly striate ; stipules ovate lanceolate, the lower scarious and brown ; basal leaves very small, on slender petioles 3-5 cm. long, silky-hirsute, slightly grayish beneath, pinnate, of two pairs of leaflets, the upper pair and the sessile odd leaflet about cm. long ; the lower pair only 2-3 mm.; leaflets obovate, incised, with oval rounded segments; flowers 1-2, about 5 mm. in diameter ; calyx sparingly hirsute, in fruit
7-8 mm. in diameter ; bractlets oblong, generally obtuse, about half as long as the oblong-lanceolate obtuse or acutish sepals; petals obcordate, about y longer than the sepals. (Plate 275, figs. 6-10.) This somewhat resembles P. subjuga, but differs in the small size of the plant and of the leaves, the three terminal leaflets, and their short and rounded segments.
Colorado: Wm. M. Canby (Pikes Peak) 1895.