LADY'S MANTLE. 



ilcheinilla vulgarls. Nat. Ord., 

 Rosaceae. 



MANTLE, the subject 

 of our present illustration, is ge- 

 nerally distributed over Britain, 

 but seems more especially at 

 home in the colder regions and 

 on high-lying land. It may also 

 be found in moist pasturage. 

 Wherever we find it, it would 

 - appear to select the more 



bracing climates, being either 

 in an especial degree a plant 

 of the North, freely found be- 

 yond the Arctic circle in Europe 

 and Asia, in Greenland and Labra- 

 dor; or if found in more distinctly 

 southern latitudes, it is only as a 

 plant of such mountain ranges as 

 the Himalayas. It is a perennial, 

 and should be looked for in flower during June, July, 

 and August. From the fact of the whole plant, 

 stems, leaves, and flowers, being clad in green, it 

 must very frequently escape notice, yet we would 

 claim for it our readers' hearty appreciation ; the grace 

 of its growth, the rich form of its foliage, and the 



