Parsley Piert

Aphanes occidentalis (Nutt.) Rydberg
Alchemilla occidentalis Nutt.; T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 1 : 432. 1840. Alchemllla arvensis occidentalis Piper, Fl. Palouse Reg. 96. 1901.
Low annual ; stems 3-10 cm. high, profusely branched, ascending, hirsute with ascending hairs ; stipules connate, often 5 mm. long, 2-4-cleft, with lanceolate divisions; leaf-blades, except the uppermost, petioled, cun eate-flabellate in outline, deeply 3-parted, 5*8mm. long; divisions cuneate, again 3-5-cleft into oblong divisions, sparingly hirsute on both sides ; hypanthium nearly 1 mm. high, urceolate, rather densely pubescent with short, spreading hairs ; bractlets usually present, ovate, about half as long as the ovate acutish sepals ; stamen solitary ; pistils 1 or 2 ; achene usually solitary, glabrous, nearly 1 mm. long.
Type locality: Rocky plains of the Oregon [Columbia River], Distribution : Oregon and Washington.

Aphanes arvensis L,. Sp. PL 123. 1753
Alchemilla arvensis Scop. Fl. Cam. ed. 2. 1 : 115. 1772. Alchemilla Aphanes Leers, Fl. Herborn. 54 1775. Percepier a? vensis Moench, Meth. 690. 1794.
Low, profusely branched annual ; stems 8-20 cm. long, hirsute ; stipules connate, 3-7 mm. long, pectinately cleft with lanceolate divisions; leaf-blades cuneate-flabelliform, 5-15 mm. long, 3-parted into cuneate, 3-5-cleft divisions, hirsute on both sides ; hypanthium hirsute, 1.5-2 mm. long, 0.75-1 mm. thick ; bractlets present, ovate, about one third as long as the ovate acutish sepals ; stamen usually solitary ; pistils 2 ; achenes often solitary, ovoid, glabrous, about 1.5 mm. long.
Type locality : Fields of Europe. _ .
-n T cTR TmTTTOtf * Europe and western Asia ; introduced in Nova bcotia.
?llustIItions . Dietr. Fl. Bor. 7 : pi. 489; Engl. Bot. pi. 1011 ; Fl. Deuts. ed. 5. pi. 2547;
Britt. & Brown, 111. Fl. /. 1955.

Aphanes cuneifolia (Nutt.) Rydberg
Alchemilla cuneifolia Nutt.; T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 1 : 432. 1840.
Alchemilla arvensis Brewer & Wats. Bot. Calif. 185. 1876. Not Alchemilla arvensis Scop. 1772. Alchemilla arvensis glabra Greene, Fl. Fran. 62. 1891.
Low slender annual ; stem often simple or somewhat branched, ascending or erect, 2-10
cm. high, rather sparingly pubescent with ascending hairs ; stipules less than 5 mm. long,
connate, with 2-4 ovate teeth ; lower leaf-blades short-petioled, the upper sessile, 2-8 mm.
long, cuneate, sparingly pubescent, 3-cleft about halfway down, their divisions with 2-4
ovate teeth ; hypanthium nearly 1 mm. long, urceolate, pubescent with short, spreading
hairs or glabrous ; bractlets minute or often wanting ; sepals ovate, about one third as long
as the hypanthium ; achenes usually solitary.
Type locality : Dry plains, St Barbara, California. Distribution : From Washington to Lower California.