42 TETRANDRIA TETRAGYNIA. Alchemilla. 



Wood very hard for turners. A lamp, or salad oil from the 

 pressed berries, boiled in water. Berries dye purple. 



P ARIETA'RIA. ' Wall-pellitoiy. 



P. officinalis. Common IVall-P. Leaves egg-spear- 

 shaped, without side ribs at the base. Involucre three- 

 flowered, with many egg-shaped segments. Stem 

 ascending. E. B. 879. C. 4. ^S. Parietaria. G. 

 E. 331. 



JValh. 



Per. June. 



Stem bushy, ascending, leafy, shining, generally very red. Ls. 

 alternate, obliquely twisted, dark-green. Fl. axillary, greenish 

 white. Stam. filam. curiously jointed, or wrinkled, starting back 

 elastically, once touched, and thus discharging the pollen 

 copiously. 

 Mucilaginous, emollient, but inferior to the Mallow tribe in that 



respect : contains a considerable quantity of nitre. 



ALCHEMILLA." Lad/s Mantle.^ 



A. vulgaris. Common L. Leaves lobed, somewhat 

 kidney-shaped, plaited, sharply saw-toothed. E. B. 

 597. Alchimilla. G. E. 949. 



Dry pastures. Pastures near Stow Wood. Burford Downs. 

 Wychwood Forest. Sb. Between Burford and Wychwood 

 Forest, just above the Hit or Miss Public-house. Cassington. 

 Bx. Finmere Church-yard. R. Pr. 

 Stems more or less trailing, leafy. Ls. root-ones on long foot- 

 stalks, large, roundish, saw-toothed : verdure of upper surface 

 very fine. Stem Ls. smaller, connected with a pair of large 

 toothed stipulas, upper Ls. gradually diminishing into bracteas. 

 Fl. corymbose, terminal, numerous, gi'een, downy, yellow in the 

 centre. 



A very elegant plant in habit and appearance. Astringent : 

 said to have proved fatal to cows, producing an irremediable con- 

 stipation. 



A. arvensis. Field L. Parsley Pieyt. Leaves flat, 

 three-lobed, cut. E. B. 1011. Percipier anglorum. 

 G. E. 1594. 



Sandy, gravelly fields. 



An. April. ~ 



' From paries, Lat. a wall, on which the plant generally grows. Coastan- 

 tine used to call Trajan, Parietaria, on account of the numerous buildings on 

 which his name appeared. 



- A plant formerly in renown among the alchemists, ^ i_ g of our Lady.' 



