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* EUPATORIUM glandulósum. 
Glandular Eupatorium. 
SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA ZQUALIS. 
Nat. ord. Comrosıtz $ EUPATORIER Lessing. (Introduction to the Na- 
tural System of Botany, p. 197.) > 
EUPATORIUM L. Capitulum pauci—s. multi—nec 4-florum. Pappus 
uniserialis non plumosus. Corolla limbo a tubo non distincto. Jnvolucrum 
pauci-multiseriale. Rachis ebracteolata. Achenium 4-5-quetrum. Arbo- 
res, frutices, aut herbe, in Europa et Asia, sed longe pleraque in America 
crescentes, pl. erecti, ramis foliisque oppositis, sive verticillatis, rariìs alter- 
nis ; capitulis violaceis v. albis, corymbosis s. corymboso-paniculatis. Lessing. 
$ 4. Involucrum campanulatum ; foliolis crebris subequalibus lanceos 
latis acutis. Caulis sepius herbaceus. Kunth. synops. 2. 418. — 
E. glandulosum ; caule herbaceo paniculato glanduloso-hirto, foliis oppositis 
ovato-triangularibus subacuminatis grossé serratis supra glabris subtus pilo- 
siusculis, corymbis terminalibus trifidis, ramis ramulisque glanduloso-hirtis, 
involucri foliolis acutis subciliatis exterioribus pubescentibus. Humb. et 
Kunth. nov. Gen. et Sp. pl. vol. 4. p. 122. t. 346. Synops. l. c. 
Caulis herbaceus, fusco-purpurascens, pilis brevibus erectis glandulosis 
densissime obsitus, 3-4 pedes altus, ramosus. Folia in plantá vegetiore 
rhomboidea, v. triangulari-ovata, petiolata, basi cuneata integerrima, apicem 
versus grosse serrata, in debiliore oblonga, vix rhomboidea et breviììs petio- 
lata; supra glabra venis triplicibus costeformibus altiús impressis, subtus 
Pubescentia, petiolo glanduloso. Flores albi, leviter suaveolentes, ramis 
inflorescentie corymbosis glanduloso-pilosis. Involuerum campanulatum ; 
squamis subulatis pallidê viridibus, glandulosis, subaequalibus, appressis. 
Receptaculum planum, nudum. Achenia nigra, tetraquetra, levigata, pappo 
simplici pauciradiato pubescente coronata. 
A native of Mexico, whence seeds were received by the 
Horticultural Society some years since, through the favour of 
the late Mr. Canning. It was found by Humboldt and Bon- 
King of Pontus, first used the Eupator herb 
e De 
Pliny says that Eupator, this genus, but the 
medicinally. The Eupatorion of the Greeks was however not 
modern Agrimony. d 
