ALCHEMILLA conjuncta.
Silvery Lady’s Mantle.
T E T R A N D R IA Momgynia.
Gen. Char. Calyx 8-parted, the alternate parts
smaller, contracted at the throat, unarmed.
Petals 0. Stamens 1-4, inserted on a ring in
the throat of the calyx, opposite to the smaller
segments. Nuts l or 2. Style basal. Seed
ascending.
Spec. Char. Radical leaves suborbicular, peltate-
palmate; lobes much connected below, oblong,
blunt, adpressed-serrate towards the end, greenish
white and very silky beneath. Flowers in
small terminal and lateral irregular corymbs.
Stems much branched.
Syn. Alchemilla conjuncta. Bab. in Ann. Nat. Hist,
ser. 1. v. 10. 25; Man. ed. 5. 93. Walp. Repert.
v. 2. 42. Syme, E. Bot. ed. 3. v. 3. pi. ccccxxiv.
A. argentea. G. Don in Trevel. Faroe, 8 (not Lam.
FI. Fr. ed. 1. v. 3. 303).
W E hope to be excused for publishing a figure of a garden
plant derived from one of Mr. Don’s original specimens
gathered at Clova, Forfarshire, very many years since. It is
not so much developed as we desire, but well represents the
plant as it often appears. On more developed specimens the
flowering stems branch greatly and. repeatedly, and the small
subsessile rather irregular corymbs are separated by long internodes.
There is no doubt that our A. alpina (tab. 244)
was also drawn from a garden specimen of A. conjuncta, and
altered to its present state by the directions of Sir J. E.
Smith, who saw that it did not represent the true A. alpina.