(ass). 
the end; the large pinnz are commonly feffile, oppofite, ovate, deeply 
ferrated, rough. Stipule two, oppofite, ferrated, {preading. Brattez 
trifid. Flowers yellow, on fhort peduncles, in long fimple fpikes. 
Calyx permanent, divided into five fegments, which are ovate, pointed, 
externally furrounded with rigid hairs, internally clofed with a-yellow 
fubftance of a glandular appearance: involucrum at the bafe of the 
germen, compofed of two dentated leaves. Corolla compofed of five 
petals, which are ovate, yellow, {preading, inferted into the glandular 
fubftance of the calyx. Filaments eleven or twelve, yellowith. Antherz 
two-lobed. Germen beneath the calyx, fupporting two ftyles, with 
blunt ftigmata. Capfule formed of the calyx, containing two roundifh 
{mooth feeds. | 
{t is common in fields about hedges and fhady places, flowering a5 
in June and July. : 
“ The leaves of Agrimony have a flightly bitterith roughith tafte) ee 
accompanied with an agreeable though very weak aromatic flavour : 
the flowers are in {mell ftronger and more agreeable than the leaves, 
and in tafte fomewhat weaker. ‘They readily give out their virtues 
both to water and to: reétified fpirit. In diftillation with water the 
leaves afford a {mall portion of a yellowith effential oil, which fmells 
ftrongly and agreeably of the herb.’’* aos | 
This plant has been. principally regarded in the charaGer of a 
mild-aftringent and corroborant, and many authors recommend it as a’ 
deobftruent, efpecially in hepatic and other vifceral obftructions. 
Chomell relates two-inftances of its fuccefsful ufe in cafes where the 
liver was: much enlarged and indurated.* It has been ufed: with 
advantage in hemorrhagic affections, and to give tone to a lax and 
weak ftate-of the folids. In cutaneous diforders, particularly in fcabies, 
we have been lately told that it manifefts great efficacy ;’ for this 
- purpofe it was given infufed with liquorice-in the form of tea: but 
according to Alfton. it fhould be always exhibited in the ftate of 
powder. , 
. * Lewis. l.c. * Ufuelles. t. 2. p. 165. 
> Becker Diff, de.Eupatorio Grecorum feu Agrimonize viribus, Erf. 1783. 
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