POTENTILLA MULTISECTA (Wats.).
P. multisecta Wats. King's Rep. 5: 86. 1871.
This was also included in P. dissecta by Watson. It is a proba bility that it is the original P. dissecta Pursh, the description of which fits this, as well as P. Ranunculus Lange, better than the plant for which the name is used, viz. P. diversifolia Lehm. From this, P. multisecta differs not only in the finely dissected leaves, but also in the smaller flowers. The leaves are not truly digitate, but the outer leaflets are attached a little lower, as in P. decuiTens. All are divided into linear divisions. This species there fore connects the Aureae with the illuitijugae, especially with P. pinnatisceta and P. millefolia. It ranges from Nevada to Montana and Wyoming.
A small group, nearly related to the Aureae, especially to P. decurrens and P. multisecta, but with the leaves more or less
tomentulose beneath may be known as the Subjugae. The leaves are at the same time digitate and pinnate, i. e., they are digitately 3-5-foliolate with a pair (in the last sometimes 2 pairs) of smaller leaflets further down on the petiole. In this respect they resem ble P. puichella, from which the Subjugae differ in the style, which is filiform. They are ,all low and tufted, or cespitose, delicate plants from Colorado, less than 2 dm. high, except the first, which sometimes reaches 3 dm. It approaches in size and habit the Gracilis group, 1. c., P. gracilis and its varieties as understood by Watson. Strangely, all four seem to be undescribed.