VOL. II.] 



ROSE FAMILY. 



i. Alchemilla arvensis (L.) Scop. Parsley-Piert, 



or Field Lady's Mantle. Argentill. 



(Fig. 1955.) 



Aphanes arvensis L. Sp. PI. 123. 1753. 



Alchemilla arvensis Scop. Fl. Cam. Ed. 2, i: 115. 1770. 



Annual, softly pubescent, branching at the base, the 

 branches usually slender, ascending, i'-6 f high. Stipules 

 toothed or rarely entire; leaves very short-petioled, pubes- 

 cent, fan-shaped, 2 // -5 // long, deeply 3-parted, the lobes 

 cuneate, 2-4-cleft, the segments obtuse or acutish; flowers 

 i /f -i%" broad, in sessile axillary clusters partly enclosed 

 by the stipules; calyx-lobes usually 4, ovate, obtusish. 



In dry fields, Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and in 

 Nova Scotia. Also on the Pacific coast. Naturalized or adven- 

 tive from Europe. Called also Breakstone, Parsley-vlix, Parsley 

 Breakstone, and Firegrass. April-Sept. 



2. Alchemilla vulgaris I,. Lady's 

 Mantle. Dew-cup. (Fig. 1956.) 



Alchemilla vulgaris L. Sp. PI. 123. 1753. 



Perennial from a thick woody rootstock, branched, 

 ascending or erect, pubescent or glabrate. Stipules 

 mostly toothed; leaves orbicular-reniform, 5-9- 

 lobed, more or less pubescent, the lower slender- 

 petioled, the upper sessile or nearly so, lobes broad, 

 not deep, serrate; flowers about 2" broad, very 

 numerous in terminal and axillary peduncled often 

 leafy corymbs; calyx-lobes usually 4, ovate, acutish. 



In grassy places near the coast, Nova Scotia, Cape 

 Breton, Labrador and Greenland. Naturalized from 

 Europe. Called also Duck's-foot, Padelion or Lion's- 

 foot. May-Sept. 



Alchemilla alpina L-, reported by Pursh from the 

 White and the Green Mountains, a native of alpine and 

 northern Europe and Asia, is distinguished from the 

 preceding by its 5 oblong silky entire leaflets. 



18. AGRIMONIA L. Sp. PI. 448. 1753.* 



Perennial erect herbs, often glandular. Leaves alternate, petioled, odd-pinnate, with 

 smaller leaf-segments interposed between the larger ones, and conspicuous stipules. Flowers 

 small, regular, perfect, yellow, in narrow spicate racemes. Calyx- tube in fruit obconic, 

 hemispheric or turbinate, often grooved, uncinate-bristly above, somewhat constricted at the 

 throat, the 5 lobes connivent. Petals 5, small. Stamens 5-15, slender. Carpels 2, included; 

 style terminal; stigma 2-lobed; ovules pendulous. Fruit dry, mostly reflexed; achenes 1-2, 

 oblong. Seed suspended, its testa membranous. [Ancient Latin name.] 



About 15 species, natives of the north temperate zone and the Andes of South America. Be- 

 sides the following, another occurs in the Southern States. 



Racemes and leaves beneath with loose spreading hairs or glabrous. 



Roots not tuberous; fruit large, turbinate, with numerous radiating bristles, i. A. hirsuta. 

 Roots tuberous; fruit very small, hemispheric, with few ascending or erect bristles. 



2. A. striata. 

 Racemes and leaves beneath closely or softly pubescent. 



Roots tuberous; stems pubescent; leaves not glandular-dotted beneath. 



Small, often simple, with elongated terminal raceme; leaflets 3-5. 3. A. pumila. 



Larger, paniculate-branched ; leaflets 5-1 1 . 4. A . mollis. 



Roots not tuberous; stems hirsute; leaves glandular-dotted beneath. 



Leaflets mostly 7-9; fruit large, the bristles connivent. 5. A. Brittoniana. 



Leaflets mostly 11-17; fruit small, the bristles radiate. 6. A. parviflora. 



*Text contributed by MR. EUGENE P. BICKNELL. 



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