. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. I. Alchemilla pratensis F. W. Schmidt. Lady's Alantle. Dew-cup. Fig. 2262. Alcheimlla pratensis F. W. Schmidt. Fl. Boem. 3: 88. 1794. Perennial from a thick woody rootstock, branched, ascending or erect, pubescent or glabrate. Stipules mostly toothed; leaves orbicniar-reniform, s-9-lobed, more or less pubescent, the lower slender-petioled, the upper sessile or nearly
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. I. Alchemilla pratensis F. W. Schmidt. Lady's Alantle. Dew-cup. Fig. 2262. Alcheimlla pratensis F. W. Schmidt. Fl. Boem. 3: 88. 1794. Perennial from a thick woody rootstock, branched, ascending or erect, pubescent or glabrate. Stipules mostly toothed; leaves orbicniar-reniform, s-9-lobed, more or less pubescent, the lower slender-petioled, the upper sessile or nearly so, lobes broad, not deep, serrate; flowers about 2" broad, very numerous in terminal and a.\illary peduncled often leafy corymbs; pedicels filiform; calyx glabrous, its lobes usually 4, ovate, acutish. In grassy places near the coast, Nova Scotia, Cape Breton and eastern Massachusetts. Naturalized from Europe. Duck's-foot. Padelion or lion's-foot. Syndow. Great sanicle. Bear's-foot. Included in our first edi- tion in A. vulgaris L. : A. glomcrulans Buser, and A. filicanlis Buser, are related species of arctic and sub- arctic America and Europe. May-Sept. Alchemilla alplna L., found on Miquelon Island, and reported by Pursh (probably erroneously) from the White and the Green Mountains, a native of alpine and north- ern Europe and Asia, is distinguished from the preced- ing by its 5 oblong silky entire leaflets. 18. APHANES L. Sp. PI. 123. 1753. Small annual herbs, with digitately parted, lobed and toothed leaves, and very small apetalous flowers in axillary cymose clusters. Calyx-tube ellipsoid, contracted at the throat, the lobes 4 or 5; bractlets as many as the calyx-lobes, or none. Petals none. Stamens usu- ally only one, borne opposite one of the calyx-lobes; filament short; anthers introrse. Pistils 1-4, usually 2; style basal, slender. Achenes l or 2. [Greek, referring to the insignificant aspect of these plants.] A genus of about twenty species, of the north tempera
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