Agrimnnia. ROSACEyE. TQC 



2. A. sparsifolium,ToiT. A shnib or small troo, G to 12 or sonK'timos 30 feet 

 liigli, gliinduliir and msinons, with yfll''»"'ii^li gronii burk bocoiiiing reddish : leaves 

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

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

 icles: calyx scarcely exceeding the membranaceous ])ra(;ts, 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 Rep. 140, & Bot. Mex. Bound. 

 03, t. 20. 



jMoniitaing enst of San IMoj^o, somotitnofl very abundant ; (lowois very fragrant. 



19. ALCHEMILLA, Tourn. Lady's Mantle. 

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

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

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

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

 I)almately 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 rodndod, (nineate at base and shortly ])etioled, 2 to 

 ^ lines broad, deeply 3-lob(Ml ; segments 2-'l-clert; stipules conspicuous, cleft, on- 

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

 slender i)ediccls or nearly sessile : bractlets very small : stamens I or 2 : akenes soli- 

 tary, ovate, compressed. — A. orcidcutallx Sc A. ciivrifolin, Nutt. in Torr. Sc Gray, 

 FI. i. 432. 



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

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

 ])ean foim, which is not elsewhere found on this continent except as introduced in some of the 

 Atlantic States. 



20. AGRIMONIA, Tourn. Agrimony. 



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

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

 o-lobed, at length connivent. Petals 5, yellow. Stamens 5 to 15, in one row. 

 Carpels 2, free and di.stinct : 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 morn species, of the northern hemisj>herc and the Andes. Three 

 species are found in the Atlantic States, of wliich tlin 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 sniall ones intermixed, oblong- 

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

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

 petals exceeding the calyx lobes : akenes solitary, subglol)ose, a line in diameter. 



Cuinmaca Mountains {Palmer) ; Sierra Co. (./. G. Lemirwv) ; and also by A'rllmjfj k Harford 

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

 tory nu'l in New Mexico, bivt is common in the Atlantic States, in the borders of woods, as well 

 as in Eurn])p and Northern Asia. 



