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xxvu. rosacea:: rosea:. 
[ Sibbaldia. 
9. Sibbaldia Linn. Sibbaldia. 
Cal. in 10 alternately large and small segments. Pet. 5. 
Stamens 5 — 10. Style short, lateral. Ovule ascending. Achenes 
5 — 10, inserted on a minute dry receptacle (the bottom of the 
calyx). — Name given in honour of Robert Sibbald, who wrote 
on the Nat. History of Scotland about the latter end of the 
17th century, and who published a figure of our Scottish species 
of this genus. 
1. S. procumbems L. ( procumbent S .) ; leaves ternate, leaflets 
wedge-shaped tridentate. E. B. t. 897. 
Near and upon the summits of the Highland mountains of Scotland, 
abundant. 2/.. 7. — A small, glaucous, slightly hairy plant, woody 
at the base and roots. Pet. small, yellow, sometimes wanting. Stam. 
5 — 7. Pistils 5 — 8 or 10. — Nearly allied to Potentilla, as Mr. W. 
Wilson well observes. 
Tribe III. Sanguisorbida:. Achenes 1 or 2, enclosed within 
the dry tube of the calyx , which is contracted at the orifice. 
Calyx 3 -or 5-cleft. Petals 0 or rarely 5. — Herbs or shrubs. 
Leaves often compound. (Gen. 10 — 13.) 
* Style from near the base of the carpel, ovule ascending. 
10. Alchbmilla Linn. Lady’s Mantle. 1 
Cal. 8-cleft, the 4 alternate and outer segments the smallest. 
Pet. 0. Stam. 1 — 4. Achenes 1 — 2. — Named from the Arabic 
ulkemelyeh, alchemy ; from its pretended alchemical virtues. 
1. A. vulgaris L. (common Li); leaves reniform plaited 6 — 9- 
lobed green underneath, lobes rounded serrate. — a. leaves 
and petioles slightly pubescent or glabrous. E. B. t. 597. — 
d. leaves and petioles very pubescent or silky. A. hybrida 
Pers. A. montana Willd. 
Hilly or northern pastures, abundant. 2f. . 6 — 8. — Stem l ft. high 
or more. Radical leaves large, on long foot-stalks, those of the stem 
with connate toothed stipules, upper ones sessile and very small. 
Flowers in many usually rather lax, corymbose, terminal clusters, 
yellow-green Stam. 4. Germens and achenes 1 — 2. Style lateral. 
2. A. alpina L. ( alpine L.) ; radical leaves digitate or digi- 
tato-partite, leaflets 5 — 7 obtuse serrate white and satiny 
beneath. E. B. t. 244. — a. leaflets distinct to the base. — d. 
leaflets conjoined sometimes to almost a third of their length. 
A. argentea Don. A. conjuncta Bab. 
1 Mantle of our Ladt/ (the Virgin Mart /) ; therefore not “ Ladies' Mantle as 
written by many authors. 
