224 TETRANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Alchemilla. 



not to the wings of the receptacle, as they ought to be in that 

 genus. It may be doubted whether Prof. Willdenow has done 

 right in considering these as one and the same species. 



78. ALCHEMILLA. Ladies Mantle. 



Linn. Gen. 64. Juss.337. FL Br. 189. Toum. t.289. Lam. t. 86. 

 Gcprtn. t. 73. 



Nat. Ord. Scnticosce. Linn. 35. Rosacea. Juss. 92. See 

 n. 74; also Grammar 171. 



Col. inferior, of 1 leaf, tubular, permanent ; the limb spread- 

 ing, in 8 segments ; 4 outer alternate ones smallest. Cor. 

 none. Filam. from the mouth of the calyx, opposite to 

 the smaller segments, awl-shaped, short. Anth. roundish, 

 minute. Germ, in the bottom of the calyx, generally soli- 

 tary. Style from the base of the germen, thread-shaped, 

 about the length of the stamens. Stigm. capitate. Seed 

 1, occasionally 2, elliptical, compressed, naked, except 

 the closed permanent calyx. 



Herbaceous, with alternate, stalked, lobed or fingered, 

 downy or silky, toothed or serrated, leaves. Stipulas in 

 pairs, large, cut. Fl. terminal or axillary, small, yellowish 

 green. The species are all astringent, and somewhat mu- 

 cilaginous. 



1. A. vulgaris. Common Ladies Mantle. 

 Leaves lobed, plaited. 



A. vulgaris. Linn. Sp. PL 178. WilldvvA.698. FLBr.\89. Engl. 

 Bot.v. 9.1.597. Abbot 36. t.\. Hook. Scot. 56. Part. v. 1. 102. 

 t.l. Ehrh. PI. Of. 281. 



A. n. 1566. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 262. 



Alchimilla. Rail Syn. 1 58. Ger. Em. 949. f. 



Stellaria. Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 519./. Camer. Epit. 908./. 



Pesleonis. Fuchs. Hist. 612. f. Brunf. Herb. v. 2.53. f. 



/3. Alchemilla minor. Huds. ed. 1. 59. 



A. alpina pubescens minor. Pluk. Phyt. t. 240. /. 2. 



In dry, rather mountainous, pastures. 



Perennial. June — August. 



Root woody, with long fibres. Stems from 4 to 8 inches high, 

 more or less procumbent, alternately branched, round, hairy, 

 leafy, terminating in numerous little corymbose clusters, of green 

 Jlowers, on smooth, almost capillary, stalks. Radical leaves nu- 

 merous, on long footstalks, large, roundish kidney-shaped, 

 bluntly lobed, plaited, serrated j of a fine green above ; most 

 hairy beneath -, Stem-leaves of the same form, but a great deal 



