ROSE FAMILY 



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I. C. palustn (Marsh Cinquefoil). — A stout, herbaceous plant, 

 about a foot high ; rJiizome woody ; ste7?is ascending, reddish brown, 

 leafy ; leaves pinnate, of 5 — 7 leaflets ; stipules large, membranous ; 

 flowers few together, large, dingy purplish-brown ; sepals larger 

 than the petals.— Peat-bogs ; frequent.— Fl. June, July. Perennial. 



10. Alcheaiilla (Lady's Mantle).— Herbs with simple, orbi- 

 cular, more or less divided stipulate leaves; flowers minute, in corym- 

 bose cymes, generally tetramerous, apetalous ; calyx^ with anepicalyx, 

 persistent ; stamens i — 4, inserted at the mouth of the calyx-tube : 

 disk annular at the mouth of the calyx-tube ; carpels i — 5, i-ovuled • 

 styles lateral ; fruity i — 4 achenes 

 within the calyx-tube. (Name 

 said to indicate the value of the 

 genus in alchemy.) 



1. A. arvensis (Parsley Piert, 

 Field Lady's Mantle). — A small 

 inconspicuous hairy weed, 3 — 8 

 in. long ; leaves small, 3-lobed, 

 lobes wedge-shaped, and cut, as 

 also are the stipules; floivers 

 minute, crowded in the axils of 

 bracts, greenish, concealed by the 

 leaves. — Dry places ; common. — 

 Fl. May — August. Annual. 



2. A. vulgaris (Common Lady's 

 Mantle). — A herbaceous plant 

 about a foot high ; leaves large, 

 kidney-shaped, plaited, softly 

 downy, 7 — 9 lobed, on long 

 stalks, serrate ; stipules ochreate, 

 toothed ; flo7versvi\ivc\Qxow'&^ small, 

 yellowish-green, in loose branching cymes, 

 common. — Fl. June — August. Perennial. 



3. A. alphia (Alpine Lady's Mantle). — A beautiful plant with 

 small palmate leaves of 5 — 7 oblong, serrate leaflets, lustrously white 

 and satiny, almost metallic underneath ; floivers inconspicuous. — 

 Mountains ; not common. — Fl. June — August. Perennial. 



4. A. argentea (Silver Lady's Mantle), — An allied form, differing 

 in having larger, suborbicular, peltate leaves, the lobes of w^hich 

 only extend two-thirds of the distance from their margin to their 

 base. — Occurs in the north of Scotland. — F'. June, July. 

 Perennial. 



ALCHEMILLA ARN^NSIS 



{Field Lady's Mantle). 



■Moist hilly pastures 



I. Agrtmonia (Agrimony). — Herbs with stipulate, pinnate. 



