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AGRIMONIA. _ROSACE. 171 
_ ALCHEMILLA. 
3 AGRIMONIA Tourn. Inst. t. 155. (Aagrimony.) 
Tall perennial herbs with oddpinnate leaves and long slender 
terminal racemes of small yellow flowers. Calyx-tube turbin- 
' ate, persistent, somewhat contractea at the throat and surround- 
- ed by a dense border of hooked prickles, or rarely 5—bracteolate 
the limb 5-lobed, at length connivent. Petals 5, yellow. Stam- 
ens 5-15 in one row. Carpels 2, free and distinct; styles termi- 
‘nal, stigma dilated, 2-lobed; ovule pendulous. Achenes 1 or 2, 
enclosed in the indurated calyx—tube. 
A. Eupatoria L. Sp.i, 448. Hirsute: stems 2-4 feet high, sparingly 
branched above: leaflets 5-7, usually 2-4 inches long with smaller ones 
‘ intermixed, oblong-obovate, coarsely toothed, acute at each end; stipules 
large, semicordate, incised: calyx 2 lines long, becoming 3-4 lines long, 
_ the tube at length 10-sulcate above: petals longer than the lobes of the 
calyx: achenes solitary, subglobose, 1 line in diameter. Washington to 
’ California and across.the continent. Europe. 
4 ALCHEMILLA Tourn. L. Gen. n. 165. 
Low herbs with palmately lobed or compound leaves, adnate 
stipules and small flowers in axillary corymbs. Calyx-tube ob- 
conic, contracted at the throat by an annular disk, the limb 4—5- 
_ parted, with as many bractlets. Petals in ours none. Stamens 
1-4; filaments short. Carpels 1-4, stipitate or sessile in the bot- 
tom of the calyx-tube; style attached near the base of the ovary, 
filiform ; stigma mostly capitate. Seed fixed near the base of the 
-carpel, ascending, almost orthotropous. Radicle superior. 
A. arvensis Scop. Fl. Carn. ed. 2,1, 115. Annual; somewhat strigose- 
pubescent: stems weak, 3-8 inches long, diffusely branched from the base: 
’ leaves rounded, cuneate at base, on short petioles, 2-6 lines long by 2-4 
broad, deeply 3-lobed, segments 2-4 cleft; stipules large, 2-5 cleft; flowers 
fascicled in the axils of the leaves, 4¢ of a line long, on slender pedicels 
or nearly sessile: bractlets very small: stamens 1-2: achene solitary, com- 
pressed. Common in meadows and open places, Vancouver Island to 
California: Europe. 
Tribe 3. Dryadex Vent. Tabl. wi, 349. Calyx campanulate or 
turbinate, or rather flat, valvate in the bud; stamens numerous: 
carpels numerous, rarely few and definite, dry; ovule erect: radicle 
inferior. 3 
5 KUNZIA Spreng. Anleit. ed. 2, ii, 869. 
PURSHIA DC. not Raf. nor Spreng, 
Diffusely branched shrubs with. mostly fascicled leaves, small 
triangular stipules and subsessile yellow flowers at the ends of 
short lateral leafy branchlets. Calyx persistent, funnel-form, 5- 
lobed, without bractlets. Petals 5, unguiculate. Stamens about 
25, in one row, inserted with the petals into the throat of the 
calyx. Carpels 1 or 2, free, slightly stipitate attenuate into the 
subulate style, 1-ovuled; stigma lateral, extending nearly the 
_ whole length of the style. Seed obovate, with membranaceous 
testa, separated from the inner coat by a layer of purple resin- 
like intensely bitter granulated matter; albumen none. Cotyle- 
_dons broadly eval, fiat. 
