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2. Alpine Alchemil. Alehemilla alpina, Linn. (Fig. 318.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 244. A. conjuncta, Bab. Man.) 



An elegant plant, with much of the 

 general hah it of the common A., but 

 known at once by the shining silvery 

 hairs, which cover the stems and under 

 side of the leaves. The stock often emits 

 short, creeping runners. Leaves smaller 

 than in the common A., and divided to 

 the base, or nearly so, into 5 or 7 oblong, 

 almost entire segments. Flowers in 

 little, dense corymbs, which form short, 

 interrupted spikes or panicles at the 

 ends of the branches. 



In the principal mountain-ranges of 

 Europe, but generally at greater ele- 

 vations than the common A., and in Asia 

 and America almost restricted to the 

 Arctic regions. Abundant in many parts 

 of the Scotch Highlands and of north- 

 ern England, and occurs also in the mountains of Kerry an 

 in Ireland. Fl. summer. 



Fig. 318. 



d Sligo 



3. Field Alchemil. Alehemilla arvensis, Scop. (Fig. 319.) 

 (Eng. Bot. t. 1011. Parsley Piert.) 



A little annual, so different in ap- 

 pearance from the last two that it has 

 often been considered as forming a dis- 

 tinct genus, but the essential characters 

 are the same as in Alchemil. It is sel- 

 dom more than 2 or 3 inches high, and 

 often in full flower at 1 inch, much 

 branched, green, and softly hairy. Leaves 

 on short stalks, orbicular, more or less 

 deeply divided and cut. Flowers very 

 minute, green, and sessile, forming little 

 heads in the axils of the leaves, half en- 

 closed in the leafy stipules. 



In fields and waste gravelly places, 

 on earthy wall-tops, etc., throughout 



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Fig. 319. 



