1912] Fernald & Wiegand,— Alchemilla alpina & A. vulgaris 231 
limits. Nevertheless, in the regions of Newfoundland, Labrador and 
eastern Canada where the species has been found it shows in each 
geographical area fairly well marked though not constant tendencies 
in the distribution and direction of the trichomes. It seems to the 
writers, therefore, that these tendencies should be recognized, but 
should be regarded as geographical varieties, and not as species. 
The most satisfactory statement of the characters of the forms of 
Alchemilla vulgaris is that given in Harald Lindberg’s Die Nordischen 
Alchemilla vulgaris-Formen.!. The writers, without claiming any 
originality, have therefore abstracted freely from the characteriza- 
tions given by Lindberg, who, however, in his text has designated the 
forms by binomials. 
The first report of Alchemilla vulgaris in America seems to have been 
by La Pylaie? who reports “1’Alchemilla officinalis, dans la partie 
inférieure des coteaux” of Quirpon Island near the northeastern 
extremity of Newfoundland, with the comment that he had seen it 
in no other part of Newfoundland. The next report seems to have 
been in Hooker's Flora Boreali- Americana, where Labrador specimens 
are cited but without definite locality. In 1870, D. A. Watt?, reporting 
upon a collection of Labrador plants from the Rev. S. R. Butler, 
listed A. vulgaris as “abundant on hill-sides" about L'Anse Amour 
in southern Labrador. 
In an editorial note in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, 
in 1886, the late W. H. Leggett said: “In Nova Scotia, along roadsides, 
was also found the Ladies' Mantle, Alchemilla vulgaris, L., which is 
undoubtedly of European origin" * and in the following year Pro- 
fessor George Lawson, referring to Leggett's note, said: “ Alehemilla 
vulgaris....was first observed at Lucyfield, Halifax County, in 
the summer of 1864. There is but one patch, which I have seen in 
flower during every subsequent season; but it does not spread. 
Botanists here have not noticed it elsewhere. It would consequently 
be of interest to note the ‘roadside’ localities more specifically in a 
future number of the BurrETIN. The Alchemilla is an introduced 
plant of European origin (as you state); and I had not regarded the 
one patch found in 1864 as sufficient to establish it as a permanent 
! Lindberg fil. Acta Soc. Sci. Fenn. XXXVII. no. 10 (1909). 
? La Pylaie, Voy. à l'Ile de Terre-Neuve, 79 (1825). 
3 Watt, Can. Nat. Ser. 2, V. 351 (1870). 
* Leggett, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, XIII. 232 (1886) 
š G. Lawson, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, XIV. 10 (1887). 
