590 



SANGUISORBE^. I. Cercocarpus. IL Alchemiila. 



simple. Nut solitary, inclosed in the often-indurated tube of 

 the calyx. Seeds solitary, suspended, or ascending, exalbumi- 



1 C. FOTHERGiLLoiDEs (H. B. ct Kunth, 1. c. t. 559.) Ij, G. 

 Ltive near the town of Mexico. Bertolonia guieroides, Moc. 



nous. 



-r. , VI • T i' J 1 1 et Ses. fl. mex. icon. ined. Leaves nearly elliptic, coriaceous, 



Embryo with a superior radicle, and large plano-convex ..^^^^ ^^^ .... ^.., .., ^ .^^' 



glabrous. Calyx clothed with silky down. 

 Fothergilla-like Cercocarpus. Tree 12 feet. 

 Cult, A mixture of peat and loam will suit this tree, and 

 usually capitate. This order cuttings will root if planted in a pot of sand, with a hand-glass 



cotyledons. — Herbaceous plants or under shrubs, occasionally 

 spiny. Leaves simple, lobed, or pinnate, alternate, furnished 



with stipulas. Flowers small, 



differs from Rosdcece in the apetalous*^ flowers and indurated P^^ced over them. 



calyx, and the reduction of the carpella to one only. Their 



general character is astringency. A decoction of Alchemilla jj^ ALCHEM 



vulgaris is slightly tonic. Sanguisorha is useful as fodder. 



Synopsis of the genera* 



(Alk 



the species). Tourn. inst. t. 289. D. C. prod. 2. p. 589. 

 Alchemilla and Aphanes, Lin. gen. no. 165. and 166. Lam. ill. 

 t. 86. and 87. 



1 Cercoca'rpvs. Calyx coloured, with a cylindrical perma- (f 



Lin. syst. 



Mono 



Calyx tubular 



nent tube, and a sinuately 5-lobed, deciduous limb. Stamens ^^ ?:P^'^;/ (^* ^J\^-) ^™^ ^^^ alternate lobes or brncteoles the 



^^ , 1 . 1 T 1 r 1 1 r^ 1 T • 1 smallest (f 77. 6.), sometimes very small and tooth-tomned. 



20, inserted m the limb of the calyx. Carpel ending in a plu- ^ •' 



mose style. 



Petals wanting. 

 at the apex, 

 and indurated. 



2 Alciiemi'lla. Calyx tubular, contracted at the throat, with 

 an 8-parted limb (f. 77. 6.). Stamens 1-4. Carpella 1-2. leaves. Flowers small, corymbose. 



Stamens 1-4. Styles lateral, filiform, capitate 



Carpels 1-2, 1-seeded, at length becoming dry 



Seed inverted. Herbs with palmate or lobed 



Style filiform, capitate at the apex. 



3 CEPHALbxus. Calyx coloured, 6-cleft (f. 78. ft.). Stamens 

 12 (f. 78. c). Anthers didymous (f. 78. c), glandular on the 

 back. Ovaries 6 (f. 78. d. A.), distinct. Styles terminal (f. 78. i.). 

 Akenia 1-seeded. 



4 Margyrica'rpus. Calyx with the tube contracted at the 

 mouth, the limb 4-5-parted, each segment furnished with a tooth- 

 formed spinula on the outside at the base. Stigma feathery. 

 Carpel 1, drupaceous. 



5 Polyle'pis. 



% 



tube, and a iU- *• 86. f. 2. 



Sect. I. Alchemi'lla (see genus for derivation). Lin. gen. 

 no. 165. Calyx 8-cleft (f. 77. 6.), alternate lobes smallest (f. 

 77.6.). Stamens 2-4. Perennial plants. 



Leaves palmately T-O-cleft. 



1 A. Cape Nsis (Thunb. fl. cap. 1. p. 558,) leaves reniform, 

 somewhat lobed, repandly crenated, and are as well as the stems 

 hairy ; racemes axillary and terminal. Tj . G. Native of the 

 Cape of Good Hope, on the sides of hills and mountains. Lam. 



3-4-cleft limb, furnished with spine-formed teeth above. Sta- 

 mens 5-20. Stigma pencilled. Carpel drupaceous. 



6 AciE^NA. Calyx tubular, armed with glochidate prickles, 

 and furnished with 2 scales at the base. Stamens 2-10. Car- 

 pels 1-2, dry. Stigma plumose. 



7 Sanguisorba. Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx 4'-cleft, 

 propped by 2 scales at the base. Stamens 4. Carpels 2. 

 Stigma pencil-formed. Akenia dry. 



8 PoTE^RiuM. Flowers monoecious or polygamous. Calyx 



) 



Cape Lady's-mantle. PI. ^ foot. 



2 A. VULGARIS (Lin. spec. 178.) leaves roundish, remform, 

 plicate, concave, 9-lobed, serrated ; stem and petioles smoothisn; 

 flowers disposed in dichotomous corymbs. 1/ . H. Native oi 

 Europe and Siberia, in woods and pastures frequent ; plentiful m 

 some parts of Britain. Oed. fl. dan. 963. Smith, engl. hot. t. 

 597. Mill. fig. 1. 18. f. 2. This plant varies much in hairiness 

 and smoothness, as well as in size and stature. Stipulas cut. 

 The whole plant is astringent and slightly tonic. The leaves 

 were formerly used in medicine, and were esteemed to be vu - 

 nerary. 



Var. /?, 



glabra (D. C. fl. fr. 4. p. 451.) leaves and flowm 



^r 70 h\ Qfo^^onc on <?n Qf;^w.o ^«^^;i r i at • glabrous; teeth of leaves furnished with a tuft of hairs at 

 (f. 79. 6.). btamens 20-30. Stigma pencil- formed. Akenia ^_^ ' „ xt..:,.„ .r .u. ai a .i,. ^.\^h^r Pvrenec 



the 



2, dry. 



9 CuFFORTiA. Flowers dioecious. Calyx with an urceolate 

 tube and a 3-parted (f. 80. a.) limb. Stamens about 30. 

 plumose. Akenia 1-2. 



i;.H. 



Native of the Alps and the higher Pyrenees, m 



sc. phys- «. 



A. Pyrenaica, ex Dufour. ann. gen 



Stigma 



apex 



humid places. 



p. 228. A. lobata. Pall. itin. 2. p. 569. 



Common Lady's-mantle. Fl. Ju. Aug. Brit. Ph^ir 



3 A. hy'brida (Hoffm. germ. 1. p. 79.) leaves roundish-rem- 



- -1 1 1 ^ . . ^ . . Vi :i. ^. stem ami 



Native 



to ^ ft. 



9-lobed, serrated, clothed with pul^escence 



L CERCOCA'RPUS (from k:epKOQ^ kerkos^ a shuttlecock, and 

 jcapTToc, ^'«rp,s, a fruit ; in reference to the shape of the fruit). 

 H. B. et Kunth, nov. gen. amer. 6. p. 232. — Bertolonia, Moc. et 

 Sesse, fl. mex. icon. ined. 



garis hybrida, Willd. spec. 1. p. 698 

 pubescens. Lam. ill. no. 1403. but not of Bieb 



A. montana 



Lix. sYST. Icosandria, Monogynia. Calyx coloured, with a Willd. enum. 1. p. 190. Wallr, ann. hot. p. 26.— Plu*^'. P""' 



cylindrical permanent tube, and a sinuately 5-lobed deciduous 



with the throat 



limb, wiin tne tnroat open 

 inserted in tlie limb of the calyx. 



Petals wanting 

 Carpel 1, free. 



Stamens 20, 

 Fruit mem- 



240. f. 2. Stipulas serrated. 



u. I. /:. .stipulas serrated. . i a 



Hybrid Lady's-mantle. Fl. June, Aug. Scoll. PL % to i u- 

 4 A. pube'scens (Bieb. fl. taur. 1. p. 114.) leaves roundisn 



branous, tailed by the plumose permanent style, 1 -seeded, in- reniform, 7-lobed, toothed, silky beneath; corymbs tennina. 



volved by the calyx. — A tree, with alternate, entire leaves, fur- 

 nished with 2 petiolar stipulas; and axillary umbellate fascicles 

 of flowers. 



crowded, clothed with silky vilh.' %. H. Native among 

 on the higher Caucasus. Willd. hort. berl. 2. t. 79. ^ ^ 



Pu6e5cen<Lady*s-mantle. Fl. June, Jul. Clt. 1813. Fl- %^^ 







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