ROSE FAMILY 



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I. C. pah'isfre (Marsh Cinquefoil^.— A stout, herbaceous plant, 

 about a foot high ; r/iizome woody ; stems ascending, reddish brown, 

 leafy ; leaves pinnate, of 5—7 leaflets ; sii/u/ks \arge, membranous '; 

 Jfcnoers few together, large, dingy purplish-brown ; sef'a/s larger 

 than the petals.— Peat-bogs ; frequent. — Fl. June, July. Perennial. 



10. Alchemilla (Lady's :\Iantle).— Herbs with simple, orbi- 

 cular, more or less divided stipulate /eaves: Jio-we/s minute, in corym- 

 bose cymes, generally tetraraerous, apetalous ; I'aly.x, with an epica'lyx, 

 persistent ; stamens i — 4, inserted at the mouth of the calyx-tube ; 

 (//.f/(' annular at the mouth of the calyx-tube ; carpels 1 — 5, i-ovuled ; 

 styles lateral ; fruit, 1 — 4 achenes 

 within the calyx-tube. (Name 

 said to indicate the \-alue of the 

 genus in alchemy.) 



I. A. arvensls (Parsley Piert, 

 Field Lady's Mantle). A small 

 inconspicuous hairy weed, 3 — S 

 in. long ; leaves small, 3-lobed, 

 lobes wedge-shaped, and cut, as 

 also are the stiptths ;. flowers 

 minute, crowded in the axils of 

 bracts, greenish, concealed by the 

 leases. — Dry places; common. — 

 Fl. I\Iay — August. Annual. 



.:. .1. vulgaris (Common Lady's 

 Mantle). — A herbaceous plant 

 about a loot high ; leaves large, 

 kidnev-shaped, plaited, soltly 

 downy, 7 — 9 lobed, on long 

 stalks, serrate ; stipules ochreate, 

 toothed ; //t'rftv-j^ numerous, small, 

 yellowish-green, in loose branching cymes. — ^loist hilly pastures ; 

 common. — Fl. June — August. Perennial. 



3. A. apina (Alpine Lady's Mantle). — A beautiful ]ilant with 

 small palmate /(?«i'f'.f of 5 — 7 oblong, serrate leaflets, lustrously white 

 and satiny, almost metallic underneath : floivers inconspicuous. — 

 Mountains : not common. — Fl. June — August. Perennial. 



4. A. argeiitea (Silver Lady's ]Mantle>. — An allied form, differing 

 in having larger, suborbicular, peltate /tvzr'M,, the lobes of which 

 only extend two-thirds of the distance from their margin to their 

 base. — Occurs in the north of Scotlanil. — F'. June, July. 

 Perennial. 



11. Agrimunia (Agrimony), — Herbs with stipulate, pinnate. 



ATCHRMII.LA .ARNENSIS 



(Fkl,-/ Ltutys 3Ia.ntle). 



