Aphanes australis Rydb.

Aphanes australis Rydberg, sp. nov
? Alchemilla monandria Sw. Prodr. 38. 1788.
Alchemilla Aphanes Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 112. 1814. Not A. Aphanes Leers. 1775.
Alchemilla arvensis T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 1 : 432. 1840. Not Alchemilla arvensis Scop. 1772.
Low annual ; stem 3-10 dm. high, branched at the base, decumbent or ascending, strigose ; stipules 3^ mm. long, connate with 3 or 4 oblong divisions ; lower leaves petioled, the rest sessile, the blades broadly cuneate in outline, sparingly pubescent with rather appressed
hairs, 3-10 mm. long, 3-parted and the divisions again 3-5-cleft or -toothed ; hypanthium
urceolate, nearly 1 mm. long, pubescent with short spreading hairs ; bractlets broadly ovate,
minute ; sepals broadly ovate, about one fourth as long as the hypanthium, usually closed
in fruit ; achenes usually solitary, ovoid, glabrous and shining.
Type collected in pastures near Washington, D. C, in 1898, E. S. Steele. Distribution : From the District of Columbia and Virginia to Georgia.