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fertile, their red cali/x becoming greatly elongated as the seed 

 ripens ; the intermediate one has no sta7netis,hut a fertile pis^i/, 

 whose calijx, though likewise investing its own seed, remains but 

 little altered. 

 The wliole plant is mucilaginous, and has been used in medicine 

 as an emollient. 



78. ALCHEMILLA. Ladies Mantle. 



Litm. Gen. 64. Juss.337. Fl. Br. 189. Tourn. t. 289. Lam. t.86. 

 Geertn. t. 73. 



Nat. Ord. Senticosa;. Linn. 35. Rosacece. Juss. 92. See 

 n. 74; also Grammar 171. 



Cal. inferior, of 1 leaf, tubular, permanent ; the limb spread- 

 ing, in 8 segments ; 4 outer alternate ones smallest. Cor. 

 none. Filam. from the mouth of the calyx, opposite to 

 the smaller segments, awl- shaped, short. Anth. roundish, 

 minute. Germ, in the bottom of the calyx, generally soli- 

 tary. Style from the base of the germen, thread-shaped, 

 about the length of the stamens. Stigm. capitate. Seed 

 1, occasionally 2, elliptical, compressed, naked, except 

 the closed permanent calyx. 



Herbaceous, with alternate, stalked, lobed or fingered, 

 downy or silky, toothed or serrated, leaves. Stipulas in 

 pairs, large, cut. Fl. terminal or axillary, small, yellowish 

 green. The species are all astringent, and somewhat mu- 

 cilaginous. 



1. A. vulgaris. Common Ladies Mantle. 

 Leaves lobed, plaited. 



A, vulgaris. Linn. Sp. PL 178. fVilM.v.1.698. Fl. Br. 189. EngL 

 Bot.v.9.t.597. Jbbot3(}.t. 1. Hook. Scot. 56. Purt.v. 1. 102. 

 t. 1. Ehrh. PL Of. 281. 



A. n. 1566. HalL HisL v. 2. 262. 



Alchimilla. RaiiSijn.\D8. Ger. Em.949.f. 



Stellaria. Matth. Valgr. v. 2.519./. Camer. Epit. 908. f. 



Pes leonis. Fuchs. HisL 612./. Briinf. Herb. v. 2. 53./. 



|3. Alchemilla minor. Huds. ed. 1. 59. 



A. alpina pubescens minor. Pluk. Plujt. t. 240./. 2. 



In dry, rather mountainous, pastures. 



Perennial. June — August. 



Root woody, with long fibres. Stems from 4 to 8 inches high, 

 more or less procumbent, alternately branched, round, hairy, 

 leafy, terminating in numerous little corymbose clusters, of green 

 flowers, on smooth, almost capillary, stalk:;. Radical leaves nu- 



