140 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
sub-membranous, silky, with a few large triangular teeth at the 
apex ; those of the uppermost leaves with the free portion entirely 
herbaceous, and longer than the tubular part. Flowers § inch 
across, greenish-yellow, with the segments ovate, spreading in the 
form of across. Calyx and pedicels silky. Achene 4, inch long, 
broadest a little above the base, then narrowing gradually to the 
point. 
This plant grows freely in gardens about London, in the open 
ground and ripens its seeds; while A. alpina can scarcely exist 
except under the treatment necessary for Alpine plants. 
Silvery Lady’ s-Mantle. 
SPECIES IV.—-ALCHEMILLA ALPINA. Linz. 
Puate CCCCXXV. 
Rootstock rather slender, elongated, somewhat woody, produc- 
ing several ascending or decumbent stems slightly branched above. 
Radical leaves on long stalks, reniform, silvery and silky-white 
beneath, divided into 5 to 7 lobes; lobes distinct to the base, 
oblong, serrated only close to the apex; the exterior ones sepa- 
rated by an angle greater than a right angle. Lower stipules 
tubular-funnelshaped, acutely lobed at the apex; uppermost ones 
widely funnel-shaped, with a palmate-cleft free portion. Flowers 
stalked, in small irregular cymes arranged in interrupted spikes, 
which form the branches of a lax irregular panicle. Achene oblong- 
ovoid, suddenly acuminate, roughened with minute glandular points. 
On Alpine rocks. Common, and often brought down from the 
mountains by rivers to the low grounds. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Summer 
and Autumn. 
Rootstock branched. Stems several, decumbent at the base, 
then ascending, 2 to 8 inches long; pilose. Radical leaves on 
petioles, 1 to 4 inches long ; lamina % to 13 inch across, with the 
lobes blunt, but scarcely rounded at the apex; sharply serrated for 
a very short way down; plicate when young, flat when mature ; 
deep-green above, with an edging of silky hairs, slightly shining, 
silky beneath. Stipules of the lower stem-leaves sub-membranous, 
pilose, with a few large acute teeth at the apex; those of the upper- 
most leaves with the free portion entirely herbaceous and longer 
than the tubular part. Flowers 4 inch in diameter, greenish-yellow, 
with the segments ovate, spreading in the form of across. Calyx 
and pedicels pilose. Achene about ;, inch long, nearly the same 
width for about two-thirds from the base, after which it is sud- 
