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beneath ; teeth a little longer than broad, ovate, cuspidate; stipules of the stem-leaves 
rounded, connate and adnate to the petiole or leaf-blade, provided with coarse ovate teeth ; 
inflorescence partly subumbellate; hypanthium at first obconic, in age urceolate, about 2 
mm. long, at least of the lower flowers pubescent with scattered hairs; pedicels about the 
length of the flowers; bractlets lanceolate, nearly as long as the triangular-ovate acute 
sepals, which are about 1 mm. long ; filaments very short. 
TYPE LOCALITY : Switzerland. 
DISTRIBUTION : Mountains of western Europe, Scandinavia, Iceland, Greenland, Labrador, 
and Newfoundland. 
5. Alchemilla alpina L. Sp. Pl. 123. 1753. 
Alchemilla argentea Yam. F1. Fr. 3: 303. 1778. 
Perennial, with a short stoloniferous rootstock ; stems erect or ascending, 1-3 dm. high, 
appressed silky-canescent; basal leaves long-petioled; stipules brown, scarious, entire; 
petioles 2-10 cm. long, silky-canescent; leaf-blades digitately divided to near the base; 
segments 5-7, oblong, elliptic, or oblanceolate, toothed at the apex, 1-2.5 cm. long, glabrate 
and dark-green above, silvery-silky beneath ; stipules of the stem-leaves foliaceous, connate, 
ovate, more or less toothed; leaf-blades usually 3-cleft and subsessile; flowers in small 
glomerules, often close together ; hypanthium campanulate, 1.5 mm. long, villous; bractlets 
lanceolate, smaller than the ovate sepals, which are yellowish, silky without, glabrous 
within; filaments very short; pistils usually solitary ; achenes ovate, glabrous, yellowish. 
TYPE LOCALITY : Alps of Europe. 
DISTRIBUTION : Mountains of central and western Europe ; also from Greenland to Miquelon 
and the White Mountains of New Hampshire. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Fl. Dan. f/. 49; Engl. Bot. p/. 244; Fl. Deuts. ed. 5. pl. 2545. 
31. APHANES L,. Sp. Pl. 123. 1753. 
Percepier (Dill.) Moench, Meth. 690. 1794. 
Small annual herbs. Leaves short-petioled or subsessile ; stipules connate and adnate 
to the petioles or leaf-blades, few-toothed; blades deeply digitately 3-parted and again 
toothed or lobed. Inflorescence forming small axillary clusters. Hypanthium ellipsoid- 
urceolate, contracted at the mouth.. Disk poorly developed. Sepals usually 5, rarely 4, 
subtended by as many or fewer small bractlets, which, however, occasionally are lacking. 
Petals none. Stamens usually solitary, rarely 2-5, inserted opposite one or more sepals, but 
sometimes by shifting, inserted almost between them; filaments short; anthers introrse. 
Pistils 1-4, usually 2; styles slender, basal; stigmas capitate. 
Type species, Aphanes arvensis Ly. 
Hypanthium 1.5-2 mm. long and 0.75-1 mm. thick. (Introduced.) 1. A. arvensis, 
Hypanthium about 1 mm. long and 0.5-0,75 mm. thick. (Native.) . 
Sepals about one third as long as the puberulent or glabrous hypanthium. . 
Sepals broadly ovate, erect or closing in fruit ; bractlets usually present. 2. A. australis. 
Sepals narrowly ovate, ascending in fruit. ; 
Leaf-blades short-petioled ; petioles usually shorter than the stipules; oe 
bractlets minute, some or all of them lacking. . 3. A. cunetfolia. 
Leaf-blades long-petioled, cleft to near the base ; petioles usually ex- . : 
ceeding the stipules; bractlets present, half as long as the sepals. 4. A. occidentalis. 
Sepals nearly as long as the densely pilose hypanthium, lanceolate; bract- 
lets half as long or more. 5. A. macrose pala 
1. Aphanes arvensis L. Sp. Pl. 123. 1753. 
Alchemilla arvensis Scop. Fl. Carn. ed. 2.1: 115. 1772. 
‘Alchemilla Aphanes Leers, Fl. Herborn. 54. 1775. 
Percepier arvensis Moench, Meth. 690. 1794. 
Low, profusely branched annual; stems 8-20 cm. long, hirsute; stipules connate, 3-7 
mim. long, pectinately cleft with lanceolate divisions ; leaf-blades cuneate-flabelliform, 5-15 
mm. long, 3-parted into cuneate, 3~5-cleft divisions, hirsute on both sides; hypanthium 
hirsute, 1.5-2 mm. long, 0.75-1 mm. thick ; bractlets present, ovate, about one third as long 
as the ovate acutish sepals; stamen usually solitary; pistils 2; achenes often solitary, 
ovoid, glabrous, about 1.5 mm. long. 
TYPE LOCALITY : Fields of Europe. a : ; 
DISTRIBUTION: Europe and western Asia ; introduced in Nova Scotia. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Dietr. Fl. Bor. 7: pl. 489; Engl. Bot. pl. 1011; Fl. Deuts. ed. 5, pl. 2547 ; 
Britt. & Brown, Ill. Fl. f. 1955. 
