378 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VolumE 22 
1. Alchemilla pratensis F. W. Schmidt, Fl. Boem. 3: 88. 1794. 
Alchemilia vulgaris L,. Sp. Pl. 123, in part. 1753.—Lam. Fl. Fr. 3: 303. 1778. 
Perennial, with a strong rootstock ; stems several, 3-5 dm. high, hirsute with spreading 
hairs ; basal leaves long-petioled ; stipules brown, scarious, pubescent or glabrate ; petioles 
0.5-3 dm. long, hirsute with spreading hairs; leaf-blades orbicular or rounded-reniform, 
5-13 cm. broad, plicate, glabrous and light-green above, slightly glaucous and appressed- 
pubescent beneath, with 9-11 rounded lobes, which have on each side 9-12 obliquely ovate 
teeth somewhat directed forward; stipules of the stem-leaves comparatively small, connate, 
rounded, toothed ; stem-leaves subsessile, reniform ; inflorescence openly cymose, many- 
flowered; pedicels divergent, equaling or longer than the flowers, which are rather small, 
yellowish ; hypanthium at first obconic, in fruit more urceolate, glabrous, acute at the base, 
about 1 mm. long; bractlets and sepals glabrous, about 1.5 mm. long, acute, the former 
lanceolate, the latter ovate. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Bohemia. 
DISTRIBUTION : Temperate Europe ; in America introduced and naturalized from Nova Scotia 
to Massachusetts. : 
ILLUSTRATION : Baxter, Br. Bot. 4: f/. 280 (as A. vulgaris). 
2. Alchemilla glomerulans Buser, Bull. Herb. Boiss. 1: 
App. 2: 30. 1893. 
Perennial, with a thick rootstock; stem usually 2-3 dm. high, sparingly appressed- 
pubescent; basal leaves long-petioled ; stipules brown, scarious, ovate, pubescent; petioles 
0.5-2.5 cm. long, sparingly pubescent or glabrate; leaf-blades reniform, 5-13 cm. wide, 
plicate, with nearly central petioles, pubescent on both sides, with 9-11 rounded lobes having 
5-8 large ovate mucronate teeth on each side; stem-leaves short-petioled or sessile; stipules 
large, often 1-1.5 cm. long, connate, rounded or truncate, with ovate teeth; leaf- 
biades reniform to flabelliform-cuneate ; inflorescence irregularly cymose with the yellow- 
ish flowers in small rounded clusters at the ends of the branches; pedicels short, glabrous 
or with a few scattered hairs; hypanthium 1-1.5 mm. long, campanulate, rather abruptly 
acute at the base, glabrous; bractlets lanceolate, glabrous, nearly as long as the ovate 
acute sepals, which are 1-1.5 mm. long. 
TYPE LOCALITY : Switzerland. 
DISTRIBUTION: Alpine regions of western Europe, Lapland, Iceland, Greenland, Baffin Bay 
region, and Labrador. 
3. Alchemilla Wichurae Buser, Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2: 110. 1894. 
Perennial, with a rootstock ; stems 0.5-3.5 dm. high, glabrous or somewhat pubescent 
below with appressed hairs; basal leaves petioled; petioles 0.5-2 dm. long, appressed- 
pubescent ; leaf-blades 2.5-10 cm. wide, light-green, somewhat yellowish, 9- or rarely 
11-lobed, suborbicular with nearly central petioles, glabrous or nearly so above, ap- 
pressed-pubescent on the nerves and near the petioles beneath, teeth numerous; stem- 
leaves subsessile; stipules rather small; leaf-blades semicircular or rounded-reniform, 
more deeply lobed, often with broadly triangular lobes; inflorescence rather dense; flowers 
in small glomerules, yellowish; hypanthium 1.5 mm. long, glabrous, obconic or in fruit 
more turbinate; sepals 1.5 mm. long, triangular-ovate, acute; bractlets lanceolate, two 
thirds to three fourths as long. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Quickjock, Lule Lapmark, Sweden. 
DISTRIBUTION : Lapland, Iceland, East Greenland. 
4. Alchemilla filicaulis Buser, Bull. Herb. Boiss. 1: 
App. 2: 22. 1893. 
Perennial, with a creeping rootstock ; stems 1-3, ascending or decumbent, 1-3 dm. high, 
slender, hirsute with spreading hairs, becoming yellowish in age ; basal leaves long-petioled ; 
stipules usually wine-color, lanceolate, entire ; petioles 3-10 cm. long, hirsute; leaf-blades 
reniform, 3-9 cm. broad, rather thick, plane, with 7-9 rounded lobes, bright-green 
above, paler beneath, turning somewhat yellowish in age, hairy on both sides or glabrate 
