136 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
as far out as the wings, while in both the forms which I have here 
placed under P. muricatum they are less prominent than the 
wings. I strongly suspect that neither of the varietics can claim 
to be ranked as truly indigenous. 
Muriated Salad Burnet. 
GENUS VI—ALCHEMILLA. Tournef. 
Flowers perfect. Calyx-tube urceolate, with an annular disk in 
the throat, 8-ribbed and scarcely indurated at maturity ; segments 
persistent, 8, in 2 rows (outer row an epicalyx of bracts), the outer 
4 smallerthanthe inner. Petalsnone. Stamens 4, sometimes 2 or 
1, inserted in the throat of the calyx; anthers 1-celled, opening by a 
transverse slit. Ovaries 1 to 4. Style from nearly the base of the 
ovary. Stigmacapitate. Achenes 1 to 4, enclosed in the calyx-tube. 
Small perennials, rarely annuals, with alternate roundish or 
reniform, mostly palmately-lobed or digitate leaves, with adnate 
foliaceous stipules, which are generally united so as to form a 
sheath or ochrea surrounding the stem. Flowers greenish, in 
small axillary or terminal corymbose cymes frequently disposed into 
lax panicles or corymbs. 
The name of this genus of plants comes from the word alkemelyeh, the Arabic 
name for one of the species ; another author says it is so named on account of its virtues 
being in repute with alchemists. 
SrcTION I.—APHANES. Jinn. 
Annuals, with the flowers sessile, in axillary glomerules. 
Calyx with the outer row of teeth very small or abortive. Fertile 
stamens generally only 1 or 2. 
SPECIES I-ALCHEMILLA ARVENSIS. Scop. 
Pirate CCCCXXII. 
Aphanes arvensis, Zinn. Sp. Plant. p. 179. 
Radical leaves none. Leaves wedgeshaped-semicircular or fan- 
shaped in outline, very deeply 3-cleft, with the segments again 
divided half-way down into linear-oblong blunt lobes. Stipules 
of all the leaves except the lowest with the free portion palmately 
cut. Flowers in small sessile clusters opposite the leaves. 
In .cultivated fields and waste places, and on hedge-banks. 
Very common, and generally distributed. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Spring to Autumn. 
