ALCHEMILLA VULGARIS AND ITS SEGEEGATES. Ill 



most familiar and widely distributed of the three, a large plant 

 when well developed, but not unfrequently dwarfed in a dry or 

 exposed or highly elevated situation. The inflorescence is glabrous; 

 the leaves are hairy beneath, glabrous above, the lobes usually 

 rounded but variable, the petioles and stems more or less hairy, 

 not unfrequently villous. The distribution is as follows, so far as 

 I know it ; the numbers being those of Watson's Topot/rapJiical 

 Botany :~d, 4, 5, 35, 42, 44, 57, 58, 59, 62, 03, 64, 69, 70, 72, 73, 

 88, 88, 89, 92, 99, 111. It is obvious that this account of the 

 distribution is most imperfect ; the type probably occurs in all the 

 counties for which the aggregate has been recorded. 



A. ALPESTRis Schmidt. A. luih/aris L. var. qUthra Mert. & Koch, 

 1823; Lejeune, 1824; Wimm. &'Grab., 1827, "&c., non DG., 1805. 

 Here is Schmidt's original description, with which the Editor of 

 this Journal has kindly furnished me: — " Caulis difi'usus, tener, 

 dichotomus, subglaber. Folia semiorbicularia, utrinque glabra, 

 lobis rotundis, acute dentatis. Flores conglobati, subumbellati. 

 Habitat in subalpinis montibus, locis petrosis apricis " (Schmidt, 

 Fl. Bncmica, i. Cent. 3, p. 88, 1794). A. alpestris may readily be 

 distinguished from our other two forms by having the stems and 

 petioles glabrous or nearly so, leaves glabrous except for a thin 

 pubescence on the principal nerves beneath, and a conspicuous 

 silky ciliation near the tips of the acute teeth ; inflorescence 

 glabrous ; plant usually large, but varying with situation. This is 

 an occupant of mountain districts, growing on rocks and wet hill- 

 sides. Specimens have come under my notice from the following : — 

 14, 46, 48, 49, 58, 62, 64, 67 or 68, 69, 72, 74, 77, 86, 88, 92, 96, 

 97, 99, 103. 



No doubt this will be found to occur in many additional N. of 

 England and Scottish counties. It would be desirable if the Sussex 

 (14) locality could be verified afresh; I do not know of any other 

 instance from the S. of England. The specimen which is un- 

 doubted A. aljyestris is in Borrer's herbarium at Kew, and the label 

 gives " Hendle Wood, Maresfield," as the locality. If it is a 

 Sussex plant, it should still more be expected to occur in Devon or 

 Somerset. 



A. FiLicAULis Buser {Bull, de VHerb. Boissier, i. App. 2, p. 22, 

 1893). A. vulgaris L. var. montana auct. brit., non Willd. The 

 following account, drawn from a stady of specimens and M. Buser's 

 description, will be sufficient to distinguish A.JilicauUs from the two 

 previous forms. The plant is usually small or of medium size, 

 somewhat glaucous; stems 3-12 in., slender, thinly hairy ; leaves 

 plane, rather small, thinly hairy on both surfaces and on the nerves 

 beneath, petioles more or less hairy; panicle rather few-flowered 

 and little-branched ; calyx comparatively large, sometimes glabrous, 

 usually (in British specimens always?) clothed with long hairs, 

 lobes large triangular-ovate acute. The nut appeared to me more 

 acute than in the other two, but M. Buser does not mention this 

 feature. A. fdicaulis affects drier situations, poor pastures, and 

 hill-sides where there is not much depth of soil; sometimes growing 

 with one or other of the two previous forms, often taking their place 



