Akhemitta.] ROSACEiE. 10") 



green, paler, and somewhat glaucous beneath, naked on both sides, or 

 slightly hairy beneath, chiefly on the mid-rib ; on some plants they are 

 elliptical, ovate, or almost round ; on others, much elongated ; petioles 

 hairy, or glandulose, or both, with falcate prickles. Flowers copiously 

 produced, often in large bunches, with lanceolate bracteas, white, large 

 and handsome, opening flat, with a slight fragrance at first, but soon be- 

 coming unpleasant. Peduncle long, sprinkled with almost sessile 

 glands. Segments of the calyx reflexed by the time the petals fall, 

 broad and short, with an acute point shorter than the petals, and a few 

 small, entire, lanceolate pinnce. Column of styles often overtopping 

 the stamens, persistent ; stigmas in a round head. Fruit small, 

 spherical, ovate, or elliptical, sometimes long and slender, its length 

 varying almost in accordance with that of the leaflets ; blood-red 

 when ripe, with an orange-red pulp of a pleasant peculiar flavour. K. 

 arvensis is distinguished from all the other British species by its trail- 

 ing habit. 



§ 5. Sanguisorbeai. Juss. 



Nuts one or two, enclosed within the dry tube of the ealyx, 

 which is contracted at the orifice. Calyx 3 — 5-cleft, the 

 divisions with a valvular aestivation. Petals usually wanting, 

 sometimes four, cohering at the base into a monopetalous co- 

 rolla. Seeds suspended, very rarely erect. — Herbs or shrubs. 

 Leaves often compound. Flowers minute. 



12. Alchemilla. Linn. Lady's Mantle. 



Perianth inferior, 8-cleft, the 4 alternate and outer segments 

 the smallest. Fruit one or two-seeded, surrounded by the 

 persistent perianth. — Name from the Arabic alkemelyeh, al- 

 chemy, from its pretended alchemical virtues. 



Tctrandria. Monogynia. 

 "1. A. vulgaris, Linn. Common Lady's Mantle. Leaves 



plaited, many-lobed, serrated. Br. Fl. I. p. 70. E.Fl.v.i. 



p. '223. E. Bot. t. 597. 



/3. minor, leaves very pubescent. A. hybrida. Pers. 



Woods and dry elevated pastures, abundant. (3. on Mam-Turk, and 

 other mountains in Cunnamara. Fl. June, July. If. — One foot high, 

 or more. Radical leaves large, on long footstalks, those on the stem 

 with connate toothed stipules, upper ones sessile and very small. Lobes 

 six to nine. Flowers in many, rather lax, corymbose, terminal clusters, 

 yellow green. Geimens one to two. Seeds one to two. Style 

 lateral. 



2. A. alpina, Linn. Alpine Lady's Mantle. Leaves digi- 

 tate, serrated, white and satiny beneath. Br. Fl. 1. p. 70. E. 

 Fl. v. i.p. 224. E. Bot. t. 244. 



Mountain cliffs. On Brandon, County of Kerry, and Ben Bulben, 



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