ROSACEA. 139 
SPECIES HWI1—ALCHEMILLA CONJUNCTA. Bab. 
Pirate CCCCXXIV. 
A. alpina, var. 3, Benth. Handbook Brit. Fl. p. 196. Hook. & Arn. Brit. Fl. p. 132. 
Rootstock rather slender, scarcely woody, producing several 
ascending or decumbent stems slightly branched above. [adical 
leaves on long stalks, orbicular, shining-silvery and silky-white 
beneath, 5- to 9-partite ; lobes extending two-thirds or three-quarters 
way down, broadly oblong-elliptical, serrated for one-third or half- 
way down from the apex; the exterior ones contiguous. Lower 
stipules tubular-funnelshaped, acutely lobed at the apex; upper- 
most ones widely funnel-shaped, with a palmately-cleft free portion. 
Flowers stalked, in small irregular cymes arranged in interrupted 
spikes, which form the branches of a lax irregular panicle. Achene 
ovate-ovoid, gradually acuminated, smooth without glandular dots. 
On Alpine rocks. Very rare, if really occurring wild in 
Britain; said to have been found at Borrowdale, Cumberland, 
by Mr. Bowman, but he himself stated that the plant was A. 
alpina; Glen Sannox, Arran (Dr. Tyache), but I have not seen 
the specimens; Clova Mountains (Don), but the specimens are 
apparently cultivated ones; also in the latter station by Mr. A. O. 
Black, from whom I have examples. One of these, which is in 
flower, is certainly A. alpina; besides this there are a few tufts of 
root-leaves, which I believe to be A. conjuncta, though the leaves 
are less silvery beneath, the lobes rather narrower and serrated 
only towards the apex; in all which points they approach A. alpina. 
The true plant was found by Sir Walter Trevyllian, in the Feroe 
Islands ; and, according to Mr. H. C. Watson, in Switzerland by 
Mr. T. Twining; so that there is no improbability of the plant 
occurring in this country. 
Scotland (?). Perennial. Summer. 
The following description is drawn up from cultivated speci- 
mens :— 
Rootstock branched. Stems several, decumbent at the base, 
‘then ascending, 6 to 15 inches long, silky. Root-leaves on petioles 
2 to 6 inches long; lamina 2 to 3 inches in diameter; lobes blunt 
and rounded at the apex, sharply serrated nearly half-way down, 
plicate when young, flat when mature, deep-green above, with an 
edging of silky hairs, brilliant silky beneath; the basal lobes 
scarcely more separated than the other, so that the leaf appears 
peltate ; stem-leaves reniform. Stipules of the lower stem-leaves 
