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denly acuminated to the apex, sprinkled with very minute reddish 
oints. | 
‘ A. alpina is distinguished from A. conjuncta by having the 
rootstocks longer and more woody ; the stems and petioles slender 
and more wiry; the lobes of the leaves separate to the base, con- 
siderably narrower and more attenuated towards the apex, less 
brilliantly silvery beneath, having fewer serratures, and these con- 
fined to the immediate vicinity of the apex; the exterior lobes 
even of the root-leaves not contiguous; the stems, pedicels, calyces, 
and stipules rather pilose than silky; the outer and inner calyx- 
segments more unequal in size; the achene larger, narrower in 
proportion at the base, and less perfectly smooth ; but the cha- 
racters taken from the calyx and achene, require to be examined 
in wild specimens before they can be relied on to distinguish these 
two plants. 
Alpine Lady’s-Mantle. 
French, Alchémille des Alpes. German, Gebergs Sinau. 
TripeE IIL.—DRY ADE A. 
Herbs or shrubs, with digitate, pinnate, or more rarely simple 
leaves.. Calyx-tube very short, saucer-shaped, not contracted at 
the throat ; segments persistent. Petals generally present, yellow, 
white, rose-colour, or red. Stamens indefinite, rarely definite. 
Carpels indefinite, in many whorls on a conical or hemispherical 
receptacle, very rarely definite. Style lateral, more rarely terminal. 
Fruit consisting of a number of dry achenes, or of small fleshy 
drupes cohering together. 
Sus-Trise I.—FRAGARIE. 
Calyx flattish. Segments valvate in zstivation. Ovules at- 
tached near the base of the style. Styles lateral, short, deciduous 
or withering. Achenes dry, numerous (rarely only 5), inserted on 
a dry or succulent receptacle. Seed solitary. 
GENUS VII—POTENTILLA. Linn. 
Calyx flattish or slightly concave, 10- or 8-partite ; segments 10, 
more rarely 8, in two rows (the outer row an epicalyx of bracts), 
those in the outer row smaller than those in the inner. Petals 5, 
more rarely 4, sometimes absent. Stamens numerous, rarely 5 to 
10. Carpels numerous, rarely 5 to 12. Receptacle convex, or 
