224 TETRANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Alchemilla. 



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

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

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

 smaller, alternate, on short stalks, with a pair of large notched 

 stipulas to each. 

 /3 is a dwarf, more hairy, variety, growing in barren exposed situa- 

 tions. 



2. A. alpina, Alpine Ladies Mantle. 

 Leaves fingered, serrated ; silky at the back. 



A. alpina. Linn. Sp. PL 179. mild. v. 1. 698. Fl. Br. 190. Engl. 



Bot. V. 4. t. 244. Hook. Scot. 5G. Dicks. H. Sicc.fasc. 15.2. Fl. 



Dan. t. 49. 

 A. n. 1567. Hall. Hist. v. 2. 262. 

 A. alpina pentaphyllos. Raii Syn. 1.58. 

 A.perennis incana argentea,seusericea, satinumprovocans. Moris. 



V.2. 195. sect. 2. t. 20. f.3. 

 A. argentea montana pentaphyllea. Barrel. Ic. t. 7i)(). 

 Pentaphyllum petrosum, Heptaphyllum Clusii. Ger. Em. 988./. 

 Stellaria argentea. Camer. Epit. 909./. 



On alpine rocks, especially in a micaceous soil. 



In Cumberland, Westmoreland, North Wales, and the Highlands 

 of Scotland, abundantly. 



Perennial. Jiihj. 



Rather smaller than the last, and essentially different, not only in 

 the silvery pubescence of the stalks, Jlowers, and backs of the 

 leaves, but in the latter being separated to the base into .0 or 7 

 obovate lobes, closely serrated towards the extremity. Nothing 

 can be more beautiful than the silvery splendour of their under 

 sides, especially in exposed and barren spots, when the leaves 

 are agitated by the wind. No figure can do them justice. The 

 upper surface is smooth and naked, of a fine green. 



3. A. arvensis. Field Ladies Mantle. Parsley Piert. 

 Leaves fiat, three-lobed, cut. . 



A. arvensis. Fl. Br. 190. Engl. Bot. v. 15. ^,1011. Hook. Scot. 56. 

 A. Aphanes. Leers 54. Sibth. 61. Abbot 36. Wilki. Sp. PL v. 1. 



699. 

 A. n. 1569. HaU. Hist. v. 2. 263. 

 A. annua minima hirsuta, foliis inferne albicantibus. Moris, v. 2. 



195. sect. 2. ^.20./. 4. 

 A. minima montana. Column. Ecphr. 145. t. 146. 

 Aphanes arvensis. Linn. Sp. PL \79. Huds.72. mth. 4, Hull 37. 



Relh. 69. Purt. v. 1. 48. FL Dan. t. 973. 

 Percipier anglorum. Ger. Em. \594.f. Raii Sijn. 159. 



