58 24. ROSACES. 



8. ALCHEMfLLA. Lady } s- Mantle. 



1. A. VULGAJRIS, L. Common Lady^s- Mantle. Rhizome dark, 

 thick, producing numerous decumbent and ascending stems. 

 Radical le. on long stalks, orbicular, plaited, 7 9 lobed, serrate. 

 Stem le. with connate, toothed stipules. Fl. in many small 

 cymes, greenish yellow, \ of an inch across. 



Very common. Pastures and sides of streams. (B) P. 6 8. Banks of the 

 Kelvin, Cart, and Clyde. 



2. A. ALPINA, L. Alpine Lady's- Mantle. Rhizome slender, 

 elongated, somewhat woody. Stems several, decumbent at the 

 base. Radical le. on long stalks, digitate in 5 7 segments, some- 

 times scarcely cleft to the base, serrate only at the apex, silky 

 white and silvery beneath. Fl. in small dense cyniose clusters, 

 greenish yellow. 



Common on Alpine rocks. (H) P. 68. Ben Lomond; hills above Rashfield 

 and Loch Eck ; Goatf ell, Arran. 



Var. conjunc'ta. Le. cut only from 1 to way down. Said to 

 have been found in Glen Sannox, Arran. Known in gardens as 

 A. liybrida. H. & A. 



3. A. ARVENSIS, Sm. Field Lady's- Mantle. Parsley -Piert. 

 Radical le. none. Stems 3 to 6 in. long, often prostrate and much 

 branched. Leaves on short stalks, tripartite, wedge-shaped 

 below, hairy. Stip. large leafy, enclosing the clusters of very 

 small, greenish, inconspicuous fl. 



Common. Fields and waste places. (B) A. 5 8. In corn fields near Ruther- 

 glen; Langside; Cambuslang, fcc. 



9. AGRIM6NIA. Agrimony. 



A. EUPATORIUM, L. Common Agrimony. Stem erect, 2 3 

 feet high. Le. interruptedly-pinnate; leaflets deeply serrate, in- 

 termediate ones 3 5-cleft, hairy beneath. Cal. deeply furrowed, 

 Fl. yellow in elongated spikes. Fruit covered with hooked 

 bristles, lower ones spreading. 



Frequent. Borders of fields. (B) P. 6 7. " Crossbasket," Ure. Banks of the 

 Calder above the Black-linn. " Bothwell Castle," Pair. Gourock, Cumbrae, and 

 Arran. 



Var. odordta, Mill. Stem erect, nearly 3 feet high. Le. deeply 

 serrate, glandular beneath. Cal. tube with no furrows; bristles 

 on the lower portion reflexed; more branched than in the species. 



Thickets and by roadsides. (E) P. 67. Waterfall below Lamlash, Mr. Craig 

 Christie ; on the road to Glen Rosa, Dr. Syme ; Dippin rocks. 



