118 ROSACES. [ALCHKMIM.A. 



Fields and waste places in dry soil ; ascending to 1,600 ft. in the Highlands ; 

 fl. May- Aug. Hairy, much branched from the base ; branches 2-8 in., erect 

 or prostrate. Leaves J- in., narrowed into the short petiole, lobes cuneate ; 

 stipules palmately cut. Flower minute, hidden by the stipuliform bracts. 

 C<i/!/.c usually 4-cleft. Achenes 1-3. DISTRIB. Europe, N. Africa ; introd. 

 in N. America. 



SECTION 2. Alchemil'la proper. Perennial. Cymes corymbose or 

 panicled. Bractcoles conspicuous. Antheriferous stamens usually 4. 



2. A. vulga'ris, L. ; leaves reniform plaited 6-9-lobed green beneath. 

 Moist pastures and streams, except in the S.E. of England ; ascending to 



3,600 ft. in the Highlands ; fl. June- Aug. More or less hairy. Rootstock 

 black, stout, short. Stem 6-18 in., ascending. Radical leaves 2-6 in. diam., 

 lobes serrate, petioles 6-18 in., cauline smaller ; stipules connate and sheath- 

 ing, toothed. Cymes irregularly racemed or panicled. Fl<'-< rx i in. diam., 

 yellow-green ; pedicels short. Acheuex 1 or 2, glandular. DISTHIB. Kurope 

 (Arctic), Siberia, W. Asia to the 'Himalaya, Greenland, Labrador. Rootstock 

 astringent and edible. 



VAR. monta' na, Willd. (sp.) ; leaves and petioles very pubescent or silky. A. 

 hybrida, Pers. 



3. A. alpi'na, L. ; leaves 5-7-partite or -foliolate silvery beneath. 

 Rocks and streams, Mts. of Scotland, and N. of England ; between 400 and 



4,000 ft., absent in Wales ; Brandon Mt. and Benbulben, Ireland; fl. June- 

 Aug. More or less clothed with silky hairs, except the upper surface of the 

 leaves. Rootstock slender, branched. Stems 3-9 in., ascending, slender. 

 Leaves on slender petioles, upper 1-2 in. diam., sessile, orbicular-reniforrn ; 

 leaflets f-l^in., narrow oblong, sharply toothed at the tip ; stipules connate 

 and sheathing, cleft. Cymes interruptedly spiked and panicled. F/<><r,t-t 

 J in. diam., yellow-green ; pedicels short, pilose. Achents minutely glandular. 

 DISTRIB. Europe (Arctic), Siberia, W. Asia, Greenland. 

 YAK. conjundta, Bab. (sp.) ; leaflets connate for J their length. A. aryentea, 

 Don. Faroe Isles. 



9. AGRIMO NIA, L. AGRIMONY. 



Slender perennial herbs. Leaves pinnate ; leaflets serrate ; stipules 

 partially adnate to the petiole. Flowers small, yellow, in terminal spikr- 

 like racemes ; pedicels bracteate at the base, 2-bracteolate. Calyx per- 

 sistent ; tube turbinate, spinous ; mouth contracted; lobes 5, imbricate. 

 Petals 5. Stamens 5-10 or more, inserted at the mouth of the calyx. 

 Disk lining the calyx-tube, its margin thickened. Carpels 2, inducted in 

 the calyx-tube ; styles exserted, stigma 2-lobed ; ovule pendulous. Fruit 

 pendulous, of 1 or 2 achenes enclosed in the hardened spinous calyx. 

 DISTRIB. N. temp, regions, and S. America ; species 8. ETYM. obscure. 



1. A. Eupatoria, L. ; leaves interruptedly pinnate, spines of calyx 



hooked. 



Hedgebanks, copses, and borders of fields ; ascending to 1,200 feet in York- 

 shire ; fl. June-Aug. Hairy or villous, erect, leafy, 1J-3 ft., rarely 

 branched. RooMock woody, short. Leave* 3-7 in.; leaflets 3-10 pain, 

 larger upwards, largest 1-3 in., sessile, oblong or lanceolate, deeply coarsely 

 serrate ; smaller - in., obovato or cuneate, 3-5-lobod ; stipules foliaceotu, 



