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27. ROSACE J5. 
Tribe I. SANG VISORBEJE. 
The Burnet Tribe. 
Fr. formed of 1 or 2 rarely 3 or 4 dry distinct indehiscent 
1 -seeded carpels or acli. enclosed in the dry hardened rarely 
fleshy cal. -tube which is contracted at the top. Cor. often 6. 
— Mostly per. herbs with 1. pinnate or palmate. FI. incon- 
spicuous small. Fr. insignificant small, not edible. 
1. Poterium. FI. polygamous irregular. Cal. 4- cleft, its 
tube turbinate bracteolate. Pet. 0. Stain. 20-30. Styles 
terminal 1-2 rarely 3. Stigmas tuft- or brush-like. Car- 
pels (ach.) 1-2 rarely 3 enclosed in the dry cork}' rugose or 
scrobiculate cal. -tube. Seed suspended. — Herbs per. L. 
odd-pinnate; lfts. stalked serrate. FI. and fr. in dense 
globose or short oblong heads or spikes, scentless. 
2. Bencomia. Like Poterium, but tube of cal. in fr. even 
and somewhat fleshy, st. shrubby, and fl. in long cylindric 
spikes. 
3. Agrimonia. Fl. perfect regular. Cal. 5-cleft, its tube 
turbinate without bractlets, 10-grooyed, armed upwards 
with hooked bristles, in fr. hard and woody with the sep. 
connivent. Pet. 5. Stam. about 15 inserted with pet. 
above the glandular ring contracting the throat of cal. 
Style terminal ; stigma small subbilobed. Ach. 1-2 en- 
closed in the hardened woody obconic setose cal.-tube. 
Seeds suspended. — Per. herbs, with interruptedly odd- 
pinnate 1. and small y. fragrant fl. in spikes or rac. 
4. Alchemilla. Fl. perfect irregular. Cal. 8-10-partite 
double, the outer row of alternate segments smaller, tube 
urceolate contracted at the throat. Pet. 0. Stam. 1-4 
inserted on a ring in the throat of cal. opposite its outer 
smaller segments. Style lateral from nearly the base of 
the ov. ; stigma capitate. Ach. 1-2 enclosed in the dry 
hardened naked cal.-tube. Seed upright or ascending. — 
Inconspicuous herbs, per. or ann. L. palmately lobed or 
cut. Fl. greenish small inconspicuous. 
Tribe II. DRYADEJE. 
The llaspberry and Strawberry Tribe. 
Fr. (an ctario ) composed of several or many small dry or 
(in Rubus) succulent indehiscent carpels or ach. inserted on a 
dry or (in Fra (/aria ) succulent receptacle. Cal. persistent 
below the fr. Stam. indefinite numerous. — Per. herbs or shr. 
with compound 1. Fl. conspicuous. 
