ALCHEMILLA VULGARIS, L. 33 



PP- 3> 39) says only of this Alchemilla, "A. alpina pubescens 

 minor, Tournef. = A. minor hirsuta cineritia Italica, Barr., 

 foliis o-audet minoribus et subtus villositate sericea nitida 



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tectis et in sequente specie (A. alpina) ; attamen examinatis 

 omnibus partibus nullam observare potui notam qua distingui 

 posset. An sit species hybrida ab Alchemilla foliis digitatis 

 cum Alchemilla foliis palmatis ? Vel an sit solus locus qui 

 luserit ? Haec enim in solis alpibus crescit." These remarks 

 of Linnaeus would lead us to think of the hybrid form 

 between A. vulgaris and A. alpina which Christ has named 

 A. splendcns, or of the Alchemilla which M. Bieberstein calls 

 A. pubescens. As the hybrid from A. vulgaris and A. alpina 

 is extremely rare, and does not answer to Barrelier's figure, 

 whereas A. pubescens, M. B., is found over a large area in the 

 mountains of Southern Europe, occurs particularly on Mont 

 Ventoux, and moreover agrees well with Barrelier's figure, it 

 may perhaps be taken for granted that the name A. hybrida L. 

 should be assigned to the Alchemilla with ash-gray hairs 

 which Marschall Bieberstein has since named A. pubescens. 



Willdenow, who, in the " Spec. Plantarum," i. p. 69 8 ( I 797), 

 unites A. hybrida, L., to his own A. vulgar is, and says of it, 

 " Differt modo foliis subtus sericeo-pubescentibus ; est sola 

 varietas hujus, nee sequentis speciei (i.e. A. alpina}" evidently 

 did not mean Linnaeus's A. hybrida. This appears from the 

 fact that afterwards, in i 809, in the " Enum. Plantarum Hort 

 Berol.," i. p. 170, he annexes only A. vulgaris and hybrida of 

 the " Sp. PL" of the year 1795 to his A. montana, and does 

 not give A. hybrida, L., as a synonym, and indeed does not 

 mention it at all. 



What then is A. montana, Willd. ? The author ranks it 

 with the species which he considers to be A. vulgaris, and 

 distinguishes the two in the following manner : 



"i. A. vulgaris, foliis reniformibus novemlobis acute 

 dentatis glabris corymbis terminalibus. 



"2. A. montana, foliis reniformibus novemlobis acute clen- 

 tatis, subtus pubescentibus, corymbis terminalibus. 



The former species is said to grow in " Europae pratis," 



the latter in " montosis ducatus Baruthini et Saxoniae." 



According to Willdenow, therefore, the leaves of A. vulgaris 



are smooth ; but we find the exact contrary stated of 



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