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SANGUISORBE/E. I. CERCOCARPUS. II. ALCHEMILLA. 



simple. Nut solitary, inclosed in the often-indurated tube of 

 the calyx. Seeds solitary, suspended, or ascending, exalbumi- 

 nous. Embryo with a superior radicle, and large plano-convex 

 cotyledons. Herbaceous plants or under shrubs, occasionally 

 spiny. Leaves simple, lobed, or pinnate, alternate, furnished 

 with stipulas. Flowers small, usually capitate. This order 

 differs from Rosacece in the apetalous flowers and indurated 

 calyx, and the reduction of the carpella to one only. Their 

 general character is astringency. A decoction of Alchemilla 

 vulgar h is slightly tonic. Sanguisorba is useful as fodder. 



Synopsis of the genera. 



1 CERCOCA'RPUS. Calyx coloured, with a cylindrical perma- 

 nent tube, and a sinuately 5-lobed, deciduous limb. Stamens 

 20, inserted in the limb of the calyx. Carpel ending in a plu- 

 mose style. 



2 ALCHEMI'LLA. Calyx tubular, contracted at the throat, with 

 an 8-parted limb (f. 77. &.). Stamens 1-4. Carpella 1-2. 

 Style filiform, capitate at the apex. 



3 CEPHALOTUS. Calyx coloured, 6-cleft (f. 78. &.). Stamens 

 12 (f. 78. c.). Anthers didymous (f. 78. c.), glandular on the 

 back. Ovaries C (f. 78. d. It.), distinct. Styles terminal (f. 78. z.). 

 Akenia 1 -seeded. 



4 MARGYRICA'RPUS. Calyx with the tube contracted at the 

 mouth, the limb 4-5 -parted, each segment furnished with a tooth- 

 formed spinula on the outside at the base. Stigma feathery. 

 Carpel 1, drupaceous. 



5 POLYLE'PIS. Calyx with a turbinate angular tube, and a 

 3-4-cleft limb, furnished with spine-formed teeth above. Sta- 

 mens 5-20. Stigma pencilled. Carpel drupaceous. 



6 AcJEfSA. Calyx tubular, armed with glochidate prickles, 

 and furnished with 2 scales at the base. Stamens 2-10. Car- 

 pels 1-2, dry. Stigma plumose. 



7 SANGUISORBA. Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx 4-cleft, 

 propped by 2 scales at the base. Stamens 4. Carpels 2. 

 Stigma pencil-formed. Akenia dry. 



8 POTE'RIUM. Flowers monoecious or polygamous. Calyx 

 furnished with 3 scales at the base (f. 79. o.) ; the limb 4-partcd 

 (f. 79. 6.). Stamens 20-30. Stigma pencil- formed. Akenia 

 2, dry. 



9 CLIFFORTIA. Flowers dioecious. Calyx with an urceolate 

 tube and a 3-parted (f. 80. a.) limb. Stamens about 30. Stigma 

 plumose. Akenia 1-2. 



I. CERCOCA'RPUS (from Kepme, kerkos, a shuttlecock, and 

 icapiroe, karpcs, a fruit ; in reference to the shape of the fruit). 

 H. B. et Kunth, nov. gen. amer. C. p. 232. Bertolonia, Moc. et 

 Sesse, fl. mex. icon. ined. 



LIN. SYST. Icosandria, Monogynia. Calyx coloured, with a 

 cylindrical permanent tube, and a sinuately 5-lobed deciduous 

 limb, with the throat open. Petals wanting. Stamens 20, 

 inserted in the limb of the calyx. Carpel 1, free. Fruit mem- 

 branous, tailed by the plumose permanent style, 1 -seeded, in- 

 volved by the calyx. A tree, with alternate, entire leaves, fur- 

 nished with 2 petiolar stipulas ; and axillary umbellate fascicles 

 of flowers. 



1 C. FOTHERGILLOIDES (H. B. 6t Kuntll, 1. C. t. 559.) I?. G. 



Native near the town of Mexico. Bertolonia guieroides, Moc. 

 et Ses. fl. mex. icon. ined. Leaves nearly elliptic, coriaceous, 

 glabrous. Calyx clothed with silky down. 



Fothergilla-like Cercocarpus. Tree 12 feet. 



Cult. A mixture of peat and loam will suit this tree, and 

 cuttings will root if planted in a pot of sand, with a hand-glass 

 placed over them. 



II. ALCHEMI'LLA (Alkemelyeh the Arabic name of one of 

 the species). Tourn. inst. t. 289. D. C. prod. 2. p. 589. 

 Alchemilla and Aphanes, Lin. gen. no. 165. and 166. Lam. ill. 

 t. 86. and 87. 



LIN. SYST. Di-Tetrandria, Mono-D'tgynia. Calyx tubular 

 (f. 77. c.), with the tube rather contracted at the apex ; and with 

 an 8-parted (f. 77. 6.) limb, the alternate lobes or bracteoles the 

 smallest (f. 77. 6.), sometimes very small and tooth-formed. 

 Petals wanting. Stamens 1-4. Styles lateral, filiform, capitate 

 at the apex. Carpels 1-2, 1 -seeded, at length becoming dry 

 and indurated. Seed inverted. Herbs with palmate or lobed 

 leaves. Flowers small, corymbose. 



SECT. I. ALCHEMI'LLA (see genus for derivation). Lin. gen. 

 no. 165. Calyx 8-cleft (f. 77. b.\ alternate lobes smallest (f. 

 77.6.). Stamens 2-4. Perennial plants. 



* -Leaves palmately 7-9-cleft. 



1 A. CAPE'NSIS (Thunb. fl. cap. 1. p. 558.) leaves reniform, 

 somewhat lobed, repandly crenated, and are as well as the stems 

 hairy ; racemes axillary and terminal. Ij . G. Native of the 

 Cape of Good Hope, on the sides of hills and mountains. Lam. 

 ill. t. 86. f. 2. 



Cape Lady's-mantle. PI. -iy foot. 



2 A. VULGA'RIS (Lin. spec. 178.) leaves roundish, reniform, 

 plicate, concave, 9-lobed, serrated ; stem and petioles smoothish ; 

 flowers disposed in dichotomous corymbs. I/. H. Native of 

 Europe and Siberia, in woods and pastures frequent ; plentiful in 

 some parts of Britain. Oed. fl. dan. 963. Smith, engl. bot. t. 

 597. Mill. fig. t. 18. f. 2. This plant varies much in hairiness 

 and smoothness, as well as in size and stature. Stipulas cut. 

 The whole plant is astringent and slightly tonic. The leaves 

 were formerly used in medicine, and were esteemed to be vul- 

 nerary. 



Var. ft, glabra (D. C. fl. fr. 4. p. 451.) leaves and flowers 

 glabrous ; teeth of leaves furnished with a tuft of hairs at the 

 apex. If.. H. Native of the Alps and the higher Pyrenees, in 

 humid places. A. Pyrenaica, ex Dufour. ann. gen. sc. phys. 8. 

 p. 228. A. lobata, Pall. itin. 2. p. 569. 



Common Lady's-mantle. Fl. Ju. Aug. Brit. PI. -- to ft. 



3 A. HY'BRIDA (Hoffin. germ. 1. p. 79.) leaves roundish-reni- 

 form, 9-lobed, serrated, clothed with pubescence ; stem and 

 petioles downy ; flowers fastigiately-glomerate. l^.H. Native 

 of Europe, in mountain pastures ; in Scotland, on the Seedlaw 

 hills, Angusshire. A. alpina hybrida, Lin. spec. 179. A. vul- 

 garis hybrida, Willd. spec. 1. p. 698. Mill. fig. t. 18. f. 1. A. 

 pubescens, Lam. ill. no. 1403. but not of Bieb. A. montana, 

 Willd. enum. 1. p. 190. Wallr. ann. bot. p. 26. Pluk. phyt. 

 240. f. 2. Stipulas serrated. 



Hybrid Lady's-mantle. Fl. June, Aug. Scotl. PI. A to | ft. 



4 A. PUBE'SCENS (Bieb. fl. taur. 1. p. 114.) leaves roundish- 

 reniform, 7-lobed, toothed, silky beneath ; corymbs terminal, 

 crowded, clothed with silky villi. 2/ . H. Native among rocks 

 on the higher Caucasus. Willd. hort. berl. 2. t. 79. 



Pubescent Lady's-mantle. Fl.June, Jul. Clt. 1813. PI. Aft. 



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