Agrimonia. EOS ACE M. 



2. A. sparsifolium, Torr. A shrub or small tree, 6 to 1 2 or sometimes 30 feet 

 high, glandular and resinous, with yellowish green bark becoming reddish : leaves 

 scattered (rarely opposite), narrowly linear, obtuse, 3 to 5 lines long ; stipules 

 wanting : flowers larger (nearly 2 lines broad), distinctly peduncled, in open pan- 

 icles : calyx scarcely exceeding the membranaceous bracts, thinner, obscurely ribbed, 

 the broad white lobes half as long as the petals : ovary truncate, 2-ovuled : style 

 thickened upward to the broad stigma. Emory Eep. 140, & Bot. Mex. Bound. 

 63, t. 20. 



Mountains east of San Diego, sometimes very abundant ; flowers very fragrant. 



19. ALCHEMILLA, Tourn. LADY'S MANTLE. 



Calyx-tube pitcher-shaped, persistent; limb 4-5-parted, with as many minute 

 bractlets. Petals none. Stamens 1 to 4, very small. Carpels 1 to 4, free from the 

 calyx, distinct : style basal or ventral : ovule solitary, ascending. Akeues enclosed 

 in the calyx-tube, crustaceous. Seed nearly orthotropous. Low leafy herbs ; leaves 

 palmately lobed, with sheathing stipules ; flowers minute, usually in small corym- 

 bose clusters. 



About 30 species, chiefly in the mountains from Mexico to Chili, a few being scattered through 

 Europe, Asia, and S. Africa. The only species known within the limits of the United States is 

 the following. 



1. A. arvensis, Scopoli. Annual, leafy, branched at the base, 3 to 8 inches 

 high, somewhat villous : leaves rounded, cuneate at base and shortly petioled, 2 to 

 4 lines broad, deeply 3-lobed ; segments 2 - 4-cleft ; stipules conspicuous, cleft, en- 

 closing the greenish flowers, which are fascicled in the axils, half a line long, on 

 slender pedicels or nearly sessile : bractlets very small : stamens 1 or 2 : akenes soli- 

 tary, ovate, compressed. A. occidentalis & A. cuneifolia, Nutt. in Torr. & Gray, 

 Fl. i. 432. 



On sandy soils near the sea from S. California to the Columbia ; Guadalupe Island (Palmer) ; 

 in central Idaho, Spaldinr/. Apparently indigenous, but not differing essentially from the Euro- 

 pean form, which is not elsewhere found on this continent except as introduced in some of the 

 Atlantic States. 



2O. AGRIMONIA, Tourn. AGRIMONY. 



Calyx-tube turbinate, persistent, somewhat contracted at the throat and sur- 

 rounded by a dense border of hooked prickles or occasionally 5-bracteolate ; limb 

 5-lobed, at length connive nt. Petals 5, yellow. Stamens 5 to 15, in one row. 

 Carpels 2, free and distinct : styles terminal : stigma dilated, 2-lobed : ovule pen- 

 dulous. Akenes 1 or 2, enclosed in the indurated calyx-tube, membranaceous. 

 Tall perennial herbs ; leaves interruptedly pinnate ; flowers in slender spicate 

 racemes, with 3-cleft bracts ; fruit pendulous. 



A genus of perhaps a dozen or more species, of the northern hemisphere and the Andes. Three 

 species are found in the Atlantic States, of which the following reaches California. 



1. A. Eupatoria, Linn. Hirsute, 2 to 4 feet high, sparingly branched above: 

 leaflets 5 to 7, usually 2 to 4 inches long, with small ones intermixed, oblong- 

 obovate, coarsely toothed, acute at each end ; stipules large, semicordate, incised : 

 calyx 2 lines (becoming 3 or 4 lines) long, the tube at length 10-sulcate above : 

 petals exceeding the calyx lobes : akenes solitary, subglobose, a line in diameter. 



Cuiamaca Mountains (Palmer) ; Sierra Co. (J. G. Lemmon) ; and also by Kellogg & Harford 

 probably in Northern California, but locality not given. It occurs rarely in Washington Terri- 

 tory and in New Mexico, but is common in the Atlantic States, in the borders of woods, as well 

 as in Europe and Northern Asia. 



