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and roadsides, everywhere above 1000 ft. July-Oct. — Wholly 
scentless. Root strong woody. St. 1-2 ft. high stiff straight 
erect, mostly simple, leafy downwards, ending in a long erect 
virgate spike of distant nearly sessile scentless rather small pale- 
v. ff, much elongated in fr. L. about 4 in. long, with 3 or 4 
principal pairs of nearly sessile lfts. and an odd stalked terminal 
one about 1 in. long and f in. broad, hairy but not glandular 
beneath, above pubescent ; the rachis with a number of much 
smaller irregular intermediate sessile lfts. Stip. large leafy 
stem-clasping coarsely serrate like all the lfts. Sep. connivent 
in fr., acute. Pet. flat oblong, soon falling. Tube of cal. hairy- 
pubescent or shaggy, strongly 10-ribbed or grooved nearly or 
quite down to its base ; outer spines of its rim short and spread- 
ing at most horizontally, not deflexed, inner longer, ascending 
or erect ; all hooked at the tip, giving the hard dry fr. a bur- 
like character. — Used remedially by the country people. 
4. Alchemilla L. 
§ Aphanes L. ; alternate teeth of cal. very small ; pi. ann. 
1. A. arvensis (L.). 
L. stalked palmate trifid fan- or broadly wedge-shaped, hairy 
beneath, lobes 2- or 3-5- or 6-toothed; fi. sessile agglomerate op- 
posite to the 1., sheathed by the large stern-clasping stip. — 
“ Scop. Cam. i. 115,” DC. ii. 590; ER. t. 1011 ; Ilook. FI. Sc. 
i. 56 ; Sm. E. El. i. 224 ; Koch 257 ; WB. ii. 12 ; Bab. 92. Al- 
chemilla Aphanes I)esf. i. 145; Brot. i. 159. A. vulgaris IIoll ! 
in J. of Bot. i. 21, 40 (not Linn.). Aphanes arvensis L. — Ilcrb. 
ann. Mad. reg. 2 (upper part) and 3, c. Mountain pastures in 
the short turf almost everywhere, as about the Primeira Vista 
do Curral above the Jardim da Serra, the Lagoa at S. Antonio 
da Serra, above Camacha towards Pico das Aboboras, towards 
the Pico do Areeiro, &c., and rocky banks along the Levada in 
the Rib. da Metade, at the Raba^al, &c. April-June. — A 
small inconspicuous hirsutely pubescent pi., nearly hidden in 
the mountain turf, with minute scentless greenish 11., and small 
elegantly shaped foliage. St. prostrate or procumbent, 2-6 in. 
long with a knotted or jointed appearance. L. flat, fan-shaped, 
small, as broad as long. Stip. large leafy deeply cut, meeting 
round the st. and concealing or sheathing the 11. FI. very small 
gr. in little hairy tufts, opposite the 1., not axillary, nearly or 
quite concealed by the stip. Cal. tubular-urceolate angular 
with 4 larger ovate inner, and 4 minute alternate outer seg- 
ments. 
