Lady's Comb
Scandix pecten-veneris, a branching, pubescent, unbelliferous plant. Perhaps only a colonist where it occurs in cornfields in Great Britain , wild in Continental Europe, South Africa, west Asia to northwestern India.
Called also Venus's comb.
LADY'S MANTLE (Alchemilla), a genus of herbaceous plants, chiefly natives of temperate and cold climates, of the natural order Rosaceæ, sub-order Sanguisorbeæ; having small and numerous flowers. The name lady's mantle, signifying "Mantle of Our Lady"-i. e., of the Virgin Mary-is derived from the form of the leaves. The common lady's mantle (A. vulgaris) is abundant on banks and in pastures throughout Great Britain. Its root-leaves are large, plaited, many-lobed, and serrated; its flowers are usually of a yellowish-green color. Still more beautiful is the Alpine lady's mantle (A. alpina), which grows on mountains in Scotland and has digitate serrated leaves, white and satiny beneath. A common British plant of very humble growth and unpretending appearance is the field lady's mantle, or parsley piert. (A. arvensis), found in pastures and meadows; an astringent and diuretic, said to be sometimes useful in cases of stone in the bladder, by producing a large secretion of lithic acid.