* TWO ALCIIK^rlLLAS NEW TO BRITAIX 163 



TWO ALCHEMILLAS NEW TO BRITAIN. 

 Br A. J. Wij.MOTT, B.A, F.L.S. 



AI die )n ilia glomerulans Baser is one of tlie many small species 

 disco vered to have been liid:len in the com]>osite A. vulgaris \i. It 

 agrees with A. alpesfris Schmidt (sensu Lindberg) in having its 

 indumentum formed of suba]>pressed silk}^ hairs, with which a few 

 slightly spreading ones are mingled, but is easily recognisable from 

 both that and ui. acufidm.s Buser by many characters. The lobes of 

 the large leaves are broader and shallowei', making the leaf rounder, 

 and, though at Hrst sight they look glabrous, a moderate lens shows 

 that both surfaces are hairy all over, although the hairs are spai-se 

 and tine. The petioles are densely silky-hairy throuj'hout and the 

 hairs on the stem reach right up into the inflorescence. It also has 

 such a charactei-istic look that 1 ])icked out the first specimen 1 saw 

 as something distinct after a very cursor}^ glance, and recognised the 

 second as probably identical before examining it. 



Since Lindberghs description in his monograph, Die Nordische 

 Alchemilla vuJgaris-fornien, p. 105 (1909), is so detailed, and I 

 have seen no series of British plants, I Avill translate it, italicising 

 distinguishing characters : — 



A. f/lomeruIa]is Buser; plant usuall}^ moderately large, light- or 

 yellow-green, moi'e or less clad with appressed hairs, llhizome stout. 

 Stipules at the base of the plant bi'ownish with greenish, colourless, or 

 somewhat wine-red auricles. Stem as a rule moderately stout, 

 arcuate-erect or decumbent, rarely more erect, (5) 20-30 (50) cm. 

 high, more or less richly clad ivith appressed liairs throughout, 

 hairiness often (f. dasj/cali/x Westerlund) reaching to pedicels and 

 urceoles of the lowest flower, rarely (f. glahrior VVesterlund) stem 

 almost glabrous or sparingly hairy in the lower part. Leaves larcfe, 

 bright-, yellow-, or somewhat blue-green ; petioles l"5-30 cm., more 

 or less thickly appressed hairi/ and often somewhat shimmering, 

 [laminie] sti'ongly undulate, thin, later usually on the margins more 

 or less brown-red coloured; iipperside usually more or less richly 

 clad with moderately tony appressed hairs over the whole surface, 

 less often only hairy in the folds, i-arcly (f. ylahrior) almost or quite 

 glabrous ; underside more sparsely hairy, often only on the veins 

 appressed hairy (the young spring leaves often almost or quite 

 glabrous, only somewhat hairy on the veins below) ; general outline 

 reniform, rarely moi'e roundish, 3-14 cm. broad and 2*5-12 ciri. 

 long, usually c. 10 cm. broad and c. 8 cm. long ; lobes 9 (or 11 

 incomplete, in small leaves 7), hroad, usually short and rounded, each 

 side loith (6) 7-9 (10) short, broad, usually hlunt, and somewhat 

 irregular and extended teeth, or (on leaves with es})eciallv short 

 lobes) more acute, narrower, and somewhat connivent, terminal tooth 

 smaller than the subjacent ones ; stem leaves usually well developed, 

 stipules large, especially the upper deeply toothed. Inflorescence 

 usually moderately narrow, somcAvhat broader above, coi-ymbose 

 with moderately dense and spherical /lower clusters. Pedicels 

 1-2 (3) mm. lona-, glabrous, or the vei'v lowest often more or less with 



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