The Probert Encyclopaedia of Nature

ALCHEMILLA

Alchemilla is a genus of plants of the family Rosaceae. The flowers are small and greenish; the leaves rounded in outline. The alpine species has compound leaves like a miniature lupine and is found over the Scottish Highlands. The genus is so named from its association with alchemists in former times, who collected dew from its leaves for their operations.
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