Vor. IL] ROSE FAMILY. 
1. Alchemilla arvénsis (L.) Scop. Parsley-Piert, 
or Field Lady’s Mantle. Argentill. 
(Fig. 1955.) 
A phanes arvensts 1,. Sp. Pl. 123. 1753. 
Alchemilla arvensis Scop. Fl. Carn. Ed. 2, 1: 115. 1770. 
Annual, softly pubescent, branching at the base, the 
branches usually slender, ascending, 1/-6’ high. Stipules 
toothed or rarely entire; leaves very short-petioled, pubes- 
cent, fan-shaped, 2’’-5’’ long, deeply 3-parted, the lobes 
cuneate, 2-4-cleft, the segments obtuse or acutish; flowers 
1/’-1%4”’ broad, in sessile axillary clusters partly enclosed 
by the stipules; calyx-lobes usually 4, ovate, obtusish. 
In dry fields, Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and in 
Nova Scotia. Also on the Pacific coast. Naturalized or adven- 
tive from Europe. Called also Breakstone, Parsley-vlix, Parsley 
Breakstone, and Firegrass. April-Sept. 
2. Alchemilla vulgaris L. lJady’s 
Mantle. Dew-cup. (Fig. 1956.) 
Alchemilla vulgaris I, Sp. Pl. 123. 1753. 
Perennial froma thick woody rootstock, branched, 
ascending or erect, pubescent or glabrate. Stipules 
mostly toothed; leaves orbicular-reniform, 5-9- 
lobed, more or less pubescent, the lower slender- 
petioled, the upper sessile or nearly so, lobes broad, 
not deep, serrate; flowers about 2’ broad, very 
numerous in terminal and axillary peduncled often 
leafy corymbs; calyx-lobes usually 4, ovate, acutish, 
In grassy places near the coast, Nova Scotia, Cape 
Breton, Labrador and Greenland. Naturalized from 
Europe. Called also Duck’s-foot, Padelion or Lion’s- 
foot. May-Sept. 
Alchemilla alpina I,., reported by Pursh from the 
White and the Green Mountains, a native of alpine and 
northern Europe and Asia, is distinguished from the 
preceding by its 5 oblong silky entire leaflets. 
18. AGRIMONIA L.,. Sp. Pl. 448.1753. 
Perennial erect herbs, often glandular. Leaves alternate, petioled, odd-pinnate, with 
smaller leaf-segments interposed between the larger ones, and conspicuous stipules. Flowers 
small, regular, perfect, yellow, in narrow spicate racemes. Calyx-tube in fruit obconic, 
hemispheric or turbinate, often grooved, uncinate-bristly above, somewhat constricted at the 
throat, the 5lobesconnivent. Petals 5,small. Stamens 5-15, slender. Carpels 2, included; 
style terminal; stigma 2-lobed; ovules pendulous. Fruit dry, mostly reflexed; achenes 1-2, 
oblong. Seed suspended, its testa membranous. [Ancient Latin name. ] 
About 15 species, natives of the north temperate zone and the Andes of South America. Be- 
sides the following, another occurs in the Southern States. 
Racemes and leaves beneath with loose spreading hairs or glabrous. 
Roots not tuberous; fruit large, turbinate, with numerous radiating bristles. 1. 4. hirsuta. 
Roots tuberous; fruit very small, hemispheric, with few ascending or erect bristles. 
2. A. striata. 
Racemes and leaves beneath closely or softly pubescent. 
Roots tuberous; stems pubescent; leaves not glandular-dotted beneath, 
Small, often simple, with elongated terminal raceme; leaflets 3-5. 3. A. pumila, 
Larger, paniculate-branched; leaflets 5-11. 4. A. mollis. 
Roots not tuberous; stems hirsute; leaves glandular-dotted beneath. 
Leaflets mostly 7-9; fruit large, the bristles connivent. 5. A. Brittoniana. 
Leaflets mostly 11-17; fruit small, the bristles radiate. 6. A, parviflora. 
* Text contributed by MR. EUGENE P. BICKNELL. 
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