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XXVII. ROSACEiE : ROSEiE. [^^Ichemilla. 



1. ^. procumlens L. (procimihent S.) ; leaves ternate, leaflets 

 wedge-shaped tridentate. £. _B. t. 897. 



Near and upon the summits of the Highland mountains of Scotland 

 abundant. 1/.. 7. — A small, glaucous, slightly hairy plant, woody 

 at the base and roots. Pet, small, yellow, sometimes wanting. Stam 

 5 — 7. Pistils 5 — 8 or 10. — Nearly allied to Potentilla, as Mr. w' 

 Wilson well observes. 



Tribe III. Sanguisorbid.^. Achenes 1 or 2, enclosed within 

 tlie dry tube of the calyx^ which is contracted at the orifice. 

 Calyx 3- or 5-cleft, Petals or rarely 5. — Herbs or shrahs 



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(Gen. 10 



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* Style from near the base of the carpel^ ovule ascending, 



. 10. Alciiemijlla Linn. Lady's Mantle.^ 



Cal. 8-cleft, the 4 alternate and outer segments the smallest. 

 Pet.^ 0. Stam. 1 — 4. Achenes 1 — 2. — Named from the Arabic 

 dlhemelyeh^ alchemy^ from its pretended alchemical virtues. 



1. A. vulgaris L. (common L.) ; leaves reniform plaited 6—9- 

 lobed green underneath, lobes rounded serrate. — a. leaves 

 and petioles slightly pubescent or glabrous. E. B. t. 597.- 



A. hybrida 



Stem I ft. high 



/3. leaves and petioles very pubescent or silky. 

 Pers. I 



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Hilly or northern pastures, abundant. 2/.. 6 — 8. 

 or more. Radical leaves large, on long foot-stalks, those of the stem 

 with connate toothed stipules, upper ones sessile and very small. 

 Flowers in many usually rather lax, corymbose, terminal dusters, 

 'yellow-green. Stam 4. Germens and acheiies 1 — 2, Style lateral. 



2. A. alpina L. (alpine Z.) ; radi 



•leaflets 5 — 7 obtuse 



tato-partite, 



beneath. E. B. t. 244. 



serrate white and satiny 



a. leaflets distinct to the base. — /?. 



leaflets conjoined sometimes to almost a third of their length. 

 A. argentea Don. A. conjuncta Bah. 



Mountains in the north of England, and especially Scotland. On 

 Brandon mountain, Ireland. %, 6 — 8. — One of the most elegant 

 of our native plants. Flowers in interrupted spikes of small terminal 

 or lateral corymbs. Stam. 4. Our yS. is said to have been found 

 wild in the Clova mountains by Mr. G. Bon, and in Glen Sannox, in 

 the Isle of Arran, both in Scotland: it has been for long a well- 

 known denizen of our gardens, under the name of A. hyhrida; but 



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\ Mantle of our I.adij (the Virgin Mary) ; therefore not ** Ladies' yiantle,'' as 

 •written by many authors. 



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