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AGRIMONIA L. Sp. Pl. 448 1753. 
Perennial, erect or assurgent, mostly glandulose herbs, simple 
or branched above, with alternate, conspicuously stipulate, odd- 
pinnate leaves bearing interposed subleaflets, and small regular 
perfect yellow flowers in spicate racemes. Flowers short-pedi- 
celled or subsessile, axillary from small 3-cleft bracts and with a 
pair of trifid or entire bracteoles at the base of the calyx. Calyx- 
tube in fruit obconic, turbinate or hemispheric, short-stipitate, sul- 
cate, uncinate-spinose or bristly above, contracted at the throat to 
form a flattened or convex disk which supports a central process 
formed by the five connivent calyx-lobes. Petals 5, inserted with 
the 3-15 stamens in the margin of a waxy disk which surrounds the 
terminal styles in the throat of the calyx; anther-cells mostly 
Separated by a broad connective. Carpels 2, included, developing 
into one or sometimes two one-seeded achenes with membranous 
testae contained in the indurated calyx tube, seeds suspended. 
Leaflets crenate, dentate, serrate or incised, the teeth mucronu- 
lete or having a minute callosity in the tip. Lower stipules smaller 
and simpler than those above. Stamens variable in number in the 
Some species, often fewer than normally in the terminal or later 
flowers. Roots either fibrous or tuberous-thickened. 
The North American species, as far as known, are as follows. 
The ranges given are based alone on specimens actually examined, 
and are doubtless subject to considerable extension in some cases. 
1. AGRIMONIA HIRSUTA (Muhl.). 
A. Eupatoria of most American authors, not L. 
A. eupatoria hirsuta Muhl. Cat. ed 1,47. 1813. 
A. Eupatoria 8 hirsuta Torr. Fl. 473. 1824. 
A. gryposepala Wallr. Beitr. 1: 49. 1842. : 
New Brunswick to Minnesota and Nebraska, south to North 
Carolina ; California. 
2. AGRIMONIA STRIATA Michx. 
A. striata Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 287. 1803 (fide T. & G.). 
A. eupatoria 3 glabra Muhl. Cat. ed. 1, 47. 1813. 
A. parviflora DC. Prodr. 2: 587, excl. Aiton. Not Soland. 
1821, 
A. Eupatoria } parvifora Hook. F). Bor. Am. 1: 197. 1830. 
A. microcarpa Wallr. Beitr. 1: 39. 1842. 
A. rostellata Wallr. Beitr. 1: 42. 1842. =A. americana Luca 
in herb.” Wallr. loc. cit. as syn. — : 
Southeastern New York, and doubtless Connecticut, to Vir- 
ginia, west to Missouri. . oe a 
