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HABITATS AND LOCALITIES. 

 1. Common Buknet — {Sanguisdrba officinalis.) 

 Moist, rich meadows by rivers. Abundant near the Mersey, at 

 Northen ; by the Tame, opposite Arden Hall ; in the valley of the 

 Irwell, and about Strines. Fl. August. 



E. B. xix. 1312 ; Baxter, iv. 2fi9. 



2. Common Lady's Mantle — {Alchemilla vulgaris.) 

 Meadows and pastures, common. Particularly fine about Clifton, 

 Prestwich, in the valley of the Tame, and about Mobberley. Fl. May — 



August. 



Curtis, iv. 588 ; E. B. ix. 597 ; Baxter, iv. 280. 



3. Pabsley Piert — {Alchemilla arvensis.) 

 Cultivated fields and waysides, common and insignificant. Fl. May — 



August. Annual. 



E. B. XV. 1011. 



Two of the most elegant of our native plants belong to this family, and though 

 nowhere spontaneous in the neighbourhood, are within reach, in a state of culti- 

 vation. These are the alpine lady's mantle, or Alehemilla alpina, (E. B. iv. 244.) 

 and the salad-bumet, or Poterimn Sanguisorba. (Curtis, i. 137; E. B. xii. 860.) 

 The former is a bushy little plant, with leaves as represented in Fig. 38 (p. 16), 

 white and soft in every part, but on the underside of the leaves remarkably so, 

 the surface resembhng the finest white satin. The salad-burnet has long, narrow, 

 Ijinnate leaves, the leaflets rounded and serrate ; the stamens and pistils in 

 separate flbwers, and both kinds in globular heads. Both plants are confined, or 

 nearly so, to rockeries. The Sanguisorba Canadensis, and a Poterium with 

 prickly heads, occur in a few collections. 



LI.— THE APPLE FAMILY. Pomdcece. 



Trees and shrubs exclusively, the stems often spinous. Leaves 

 alternate, stipulate, usually undivided, sometimes pinnate or pinnatifid, 

 and generally serrate. Flowers regular, solitary, or in terminal 

 clusters ; petals five, seated along with the numerous stamens, on the 

 upper part of the calyx, which combines with the two to five adherent 

 ovaries, and crowns them, remaining in a withered state upon the 

 summit of the ripened fruit. The latter is more or less like an applo 

 though sometimes not larger than a pea ; the ovules in pairs, and side 

 by side. The last-named character is peculiar, and distinguishes the 

 family from those with which it is immediately connected, The 



