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denly acuminated to the apex, sprinkled with very minute reddish 

 points. 



A. alpina is distinguished from A. conjuncta by having the 

 rootstocks longer and more woody ; the stems and petioles slender 

 and more wiry ; the lobes of the leaves separate to the base, con- 

 siderably narrower and more attenuated towards the apex, less 

 brilliantly silvery beneath, having fewer serratures, and these con- 

 fined to the immediate vicinity of the apex ; the exterior lobes 

 even of tlie root-leaves not contiguous ; the stems, pedicels, calyces, 

 and stipules rather pilose than silky ; the outer and inner calyx- 

 segments more unequal in size ; the achene larger, narrower in 

 proportion at the base, and less perfectly smooth ; but the cha- 

 racters taken from the calyx and achene, require to be examined 

 in wild specuuens before they can be relied on to distinguish these 

 two plants. 



Alpine Lady's-Mantle. 



French, Alchemille des Alpes. German, Geherga Sinau. 



Tribe III.— DRY ADE-ffi. 



Herbs or shrubs, with digitate, pinnate, or more rarely simple 

 leaves. Calyx-tube very short, saucer-shaped, not contracted at 

 the throat ; segments persistent. Petals gencraUy present, yellow, 

 white, rose-colour, or red. Stamens indefinite, rarely definite. 

 Carpels indefinite, in many whorls on a conical or hemispherical 

 receptacle, very rarely definite. Style lateral, more rarely terminal. 

 Fruit consisting of a number of dry achenes, or of small fleshy 

 drupes cohering together. 



Sub-Tribe I.— FEAGARIE^. 



Calyx flattish. Segments valvate in aestivation. Ovules at- 

 tached near the base of the style. Styles lateral, short, deciduous 

 or withering, Achenes dry, numerous (rarely only 6), inserted on 

 a dry or succulent receptacle. Seed solitary. 



GENUS FJ7.— POTENT ILL A. Linn. 



Calyx flattish or slightly concave, 10- or 8-partite ; segments 10, 

 more rarely 8, in two rows (the outer row an epicalyx of bracts), 

 those in the outer row smaller than those in the inner. Petals 5, 

 more rarely 4, sometimes absent. Stamens numerous, rarely 5 to 

 10. Carpels numerous, rarely 5 to 12. Receptacle convex, or 



