ROSACEAE 615 
. AGRIMONIA [Tourn] L. Perennial, often glandular, caulescent 
herbs. Leaf-blades unequally and interruptedly pinnate, with small leaflets 
interposed between the larger ones. Flowers small, in virgate interrupted 
racemes. Hypanthium fluted, armed with hooked bristles. Sepals green, 
persistent. Petals yellow. Stamens 5-15. Filam > subulate Style termi- 
nal.—About 15 species, widely distributed.—AGRIMONIES. HARVEST-LICE. 
Mature hypanthium with 2-4 series of bristles; these erect, ascending, or merely 
spreading: sepals acute. : 
Leaflets large (mostly over 2 cm. long); blades serrate or crenate, the teeth 
directed forwar 
Raceme and Teer surface of the leaflets decidedly pubescent. 
Roots not tuberous- thicken ed: leaflets glandular-granulose beneath. 
Leaflets 11-27; bla i narrowly lanceolate or elliptic, ans coo ed 
mature iypan nthium 2.5-3 mm. long, the outer . 
bristles ey canine. p reflex ea: 1. A. parviflora. 
Leaflets 5—9: blades broadly lanceolate to p 
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m. long, with erect or Candi cent bristles. 2. A. striata. 
Roots M leaflets not  glandular- 
uliferous or very slightly so, velvety be- 
Mature Bus thium campanulate or turbinate, 
lo Mun broad, with an coven cusue or 
eyiden t stems with the long hairs 
Sea or ascendine 
Leaflets mostly 1-13; blades, lanceolate to nar- 
rowly elliptic ; mature ypanthium with an 
evident rim, the outer bristles spreading. 3. A. Bicknellii. 
eaflets mostly 5—7 ; blades obovate or oval, or 
rarely elliptie; mature hypanthium with an 
obsolete rim, t istles erect or ascending. 4. A. pubescens. 
Hoe ypanthium broadly obconic, as broad as 
nearly so, shorter than the sepals, 
Su Boro uer rim: stem with the long 
hairs spreadin 
M 3 x rar "andes acute: mature hypan- 
thiu ually ee than long: leaves 
scattered. on the S 
. A. platycarpa. 
Pe uei 3 E. 5, the lower pair much reduced ; l 
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ae ae on the lower part of the stem. 
6. A. microcarpa. 
Raceme and leaves glabrous or nearly so, but grandular, 
granuliferous: roots tuberous-thickened. 7. A. rostellata. 
Leaflets sm -2 c long) ; with few, coarse 
salient or somewhat recurved n 8. A. incisa. 
Mature Een us with several series of bristles, the outer 
eflexed : sepals acuminate, with the tips incurved at maturity. 9. A. gryposepala. 
parviflora Ait. Stem 3-20 dm. tall, finely Attia and densely 
hir sute; B leaflets 11-27; blades 3- 12 ong or rarely smaller, 
ongly ned, sharply a sepals 
Rn: DIAS eliptic, about 2 mm. long, pale 
yellow: o hypanthium short- turbinate, 
2.5-3 mm. long, the bristles in 2 series with 
an ae rim. [4. Eupatoria Michx. not 
L.]—Meadows, stream- pu and rieh Goode 
" various provinces, Fla. to mee Nebr., and 
N. Y.—(W. I., Mex.)—Spr.-s 
2. A. striata Michx. Stem 3-21 dm li, 
hirsute and glandular- m e y 
leaflets 5-9; blades 3-10 cm. long, serrate 
with mucronate teeth: sepals triangular- 
ovate: petals obovate, 3-4 mm. long, deep- 
yellow: mature hypanthium long-turbinate, 
about 5 mm. long, the bristles in 3 or 4 
