or LADIES-MANTLE: A genus of the monogynia order, belonging to the tetrandria clas of plants; and in the natural method ranking under the 35th order Sentiferae. The calyx is a single-leaved perianthium, tubular, and persistent; the mouth flat, and eight-parted: There is no corolla. The stamens consist of four small erect subulate filaments placed in the mouth of the calyx; the anthers are roundish: The pistillum has an egg-shaped germen: The stylus is filiform, the length of the stamens, and inserted at the base of the germ: The stigma is globular. There is no pericarpium, but the neck of the calyx closed. The seed foliary, elliptical, and compressed. Of this genus there are three species. Richard Carter in the 1476; Rym. Fed. tom. xii. Alciat: Nevertheles, we have had severe laws against alchemy, and multiplying of metals, as much so as against coining itself.