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LXXVI. KOSACE^. 



Alchemillii 



A/c/iemilla. 

 Flower (mag.). 



Alchemilla. 

 Vertical section of flower (mag.). 



A Irlitinilla. 

 Stamen (mag.). 



Alchemilla. 



Fruit, entire and cut 



vertically (mag.). 



Stem herbaceous, rarely woody. Leaves generally compound ; stipules adnato 

 to the petiole. Flowers terminal, small, g or diclinous ; receptacular cupule of the 

 5 and $ flowers urceolate, contracted at the top, and bearing a 4-5-3-fid calycinal 

 limb ; calyx of the $ flowers 4-phyllous (Poterium) or 3-phyllous (Gliffortia] ; petals 

 usually 0, rarely 4. Stamens equal in number to the calyx-lobes (8anguisorba) , or 

 fewer (Margyricarpus, Tetraglochin, &c.), or double, treble, or multiple (Agrimonia } 

 Aremonia, Clijfortia, Poterium, &c.). Carpels 1 -4, free, enclosed in the receptacular 

 cupule, ripening into achenes ; styles sub-basilar, lateral or terminal ; stigmas capi- 

 tate or penicillate. Seed pendulous ; radicle superior. 



Alchemilla. 

 'Poterium. 



Brayera. 

 ' Sano-uisorba. 



PRINCIPAL GENERA. 



* Agrimonia. 

 Cliffortia. 



Margyricarpus. 

 Braya. 



Acffina. 

 * Aremonia. 



TRIBE IV. DRYADE^l, Ventenat. 



et POTENTILLE^E, Benth. et Hook, fit.) 



Herbs or shrubs. Leaves usually compound; stipules adnate to the petiole. 

 Flowers 5 . Calyx 5-4-partite, persistent, naked or calyculate, aestivation valvate. 

 Petals 5-4. Carpels free, usually numerous, sometimes 5-10, arranged in a head 

 on a convex receptacle ; style ascending from the ventral margin ; ovule solitary 

 [or 2], pendulous, rarely ascending (Geum, Dry as] ; achenes naked (Pot&rdilla, 





